An Egyptian court has extended the pretrial detention of prominent opposition member and former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh for another 45 days on charges of communicating with entities opposed to the Egyptian state [ More … ]
Ahmed Badawy, an engineer and youth activist with two political parties, wrote on Twitter on Sunday that he had been arrested, using the widely used hashtag “Go down, say No.”He posted a picture of himself [ More … ]
The Egyptian government canceled a contract with a top US lobbying firm days after the American broadcaster CBS grilled Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi about his human rights record, a report has revealed. According to Al-Monitor, [ More … ]
A coalition of Egyptian parliamentarians will submit a request for constitutional amendments providing for a second chamber of parliament and the appointment of one or more deputy presidents, state news agency MENA reported on Saturday. [ More … ]
Egyptian security forces are preparing to launch an extensive campaign of arrests ahead of the eighth anniversary of the 25 January revolution. According to Egyptian security sources, the campaign will target members of the Muslim [ More … ]
An Egyptian court has agreed to hear a challenge to the two-term limit for the presidency, a potential first step towards changing the constitution to allow Abdel Fattah el-Sisi a third term as president. [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Egypt on Monday, the third leg of his first trip abroad since the murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey last month. Despite the [ More … ]
Egypt’s al-Sisi has pledged military support for Gulf Arab states if their security comes under threat, as reported by the state a state-owned newspaper, Al-Ahram. “If the security of the Gulf is directly threatened, Egypt [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities on Thursday detained nine people, including seven women, according to sources close to the banned Muslim Brotherhood group. Several Brotherhood sources told Anadolu Agency that the nine had been detained from their [ More … ]
Throughout the five years of the military coup that overthrew Egypt’s first democratically-elected government, Al-Sisi’s regime has launched the largest crackdown on opposition in the country’s modern history. Amnesty International says Egypt’s crackdown on freedom [ More … ]
An Egyptian court has sentenced 75 people to death, including senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood over a sit-in protest in Cairo that ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters. Senior Brotherhood leaders Essam el-Erian [ More … ]
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signed off on the release of $US 1.2 billion in foreign military financing to Egypt as reported by Associated Press. A statement by US State Department announced that Pompeo [ More … ]
A wave of legal complaints by pro-government lawyers have been filed against Egyptian leftist leader Hamdeen Sabahi after calling for regime change. During a press conference on Monday, Sabahi condemned last week’s arrest of six [ More … ]
Egypt is considering purchasing two Meko A200 frigates from Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) as discussions with France’s Naval Group on the acquisition of further Gowind corvettes grinds to a halt over cost concerns. France’s [ More … ]
– Mahsoub is living in France for the last years and one of prominent figures opposing Sisi regime in Egypt – Human rights organizations call Italian authorities not to deport the Egyptian opposition figure – [ More … ]
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