In the six years since Abdel Fatah al-Sisi assumed the presidency in Egypt, the country has devolved into the deepest human rights crisis it has experienced in decades. In the face of this downward spiral, it’s not [ More … ]
One of Egypt’s best-known actors has been told that he has been sentenced to eight years in jail in his absence for criticising the regime of President Sisi. Amr Waked, best known in Britain for [ More … ]
Three times more journalists were jailed this year on “false news” charges than in 2016 — and Egypt led the way, reported Poynter. According to a new report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists on [ More … ]
As the presidential elections scheduled to take place in 2018, the political arena seems empty of any candidates. Some declared their withdrawal from the elections, other hinted that he would exit the elections and the [ More … ]
Bahrain jailed one of its citizens for comments made on social media, reports said, in the first arrest of its kind since passing a controversial law criminalizing sympathy with Qatar. Last week, Bahrain authorities followed [ More … ]
Amnesty International once described the Egyptian youths as “Generation Protest”, the generation who took to the streets in Egypt to bring down a dictator in 2011. But unfortunately, the Egyptian youths have now acquired a grim new [ More … ]
A UAE court jailed a Jordanian journalist for three years over Facebook comments deemed insulting to the United Arab Emirates, Emirati state media and a Jordanian press union said. An Abu Dhabi court jailed Wednesday [ More … ]
Dozens of foreign workers have reportedly been sentenced to flogging and jail in Saudi Arabia for unrest which erupted after wages went unpaid by the Binladin Group The Saudi Criminal Court in Makkah has sentenced [ More … ]
Egypt’s parliament has approved a bill that curbs the work of the non-governmental organization.Human rights groups say that the new bill effectively bans their work, reported Reuters . By the parliament’s approval, the bill is [ More … ]
The Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed continued his hunger strike for the 39th. consecutive day in protest against being held without charge or trial in Israeli jails after the expiration of his 14.5-year sentence on 15 [ More … ]
Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced the first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi to life in prison and an additional 15-year prison sentence in what is known as the Qatar espionage case. Life sentences in Egypt are [ More … ]
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