Several “Tora” prisoners have been trained to talk about prison conditions before Sisi, with promises to include them in a presidential pardon list, reported Mada Masr. According to Mada Masr, one of the lawyers, who [ More … ]
Egypt’s parliament approved a new law governing nongovernment organizations on July 14, 2019, that would maintain many of the existing restrictions on their work, Human Rights Watch said today. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi should not approve [ More … ]
A press freedom group has called on Egyptian authorities to reverse their decision to take over a daily newspaper, a day after security forces stormed its headquarters. Reporters Without Borders that the decision to take [ More … ]
Egypt’s Al-Sisi has ratified a new draconian cybercrime law that rights groups say paves the way for censoring online media. The law, published Saturday in the country’s official gazette, empowers authorities to order the blocking [ More … ]
Amnesty International criticized the Egyptian authorities for pushing through new media and cybercrime laws that would give the state near-total control over print, online and broadcast media. The London-based organization called the Egyptian parliament to [ More … ]
Egypt’s public prosecutor has referred 28 people to a criminal court on charges including forming an illegal group aiming to topple the government. Nabil Sadek, the Egyptian public prosecutor, referred 28 accused to an urgent [ More … ]
Late on Tuesday, Egyptian police raided the office of a news website and arrested its editor-in-chief, according to three of its journalists, including its managing editor. The raid came two days after the Supreme Council [ More … ]
Water ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan discussed in Addis Ababa, ways to address the outstanding issues after a study done by consultancy firms over the Renaissance Dam filling period. In fact, Egypt still fears [ More … ]
After Al-Sisi’s return from the Arab Islamic Summit, many observers believe that he is in the middle of the road for choosing either the United States or the Russian Camp in the coming period. After the Egyptian-Russian [ More … ]
US defense secretary will meet with his counterparts in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt during his Middle East visit starting Tuesday to discuss strengthening security cooperation, according to the Pentagon. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis [ More … ]
Italian investigators prepared an initial list of defendants, accusing 26 persons of killing the Italian student Giulio Regeni in Egypt in 2016 which marks a critical development in the case. An initial list was pared down [ More … ]
Egypt’s National Defense Council agreed in a meeting to extend the deployment of Egyptian Armed Forces units in the Red Sea and the Bab Al-Mandab strait. The meeting was headed by Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and attended [ More … ]
About ten days after Egypt’s Prosecutor-General Nabil Sadek’s meeting with Rome’s Chief Prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone and Italian investigation team, leaks are still emerging on the developments of Italian Ph.D. Student Giulio Regeni’s murder in Egypt. Giulio Regeni, [ More … ]
Ali Abdullah Saleh, the ousted Yemeni president, has recently paid a secret visit to Egypt for at least one day, where he met with Egyptian officials, reported The New Arab. Saleh’s visit to Egypt could further [ More … ]
An Egyptian judicial report has supported the ministry of interior’s decision to allow monitoring the social media networks, according to Anadolu Agency. The State Commissioners Authority, the advisory body for the State Council, has stated its [ More … ]
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