The Egyptian police have arrested seven people who were protesting demolition of their homes in the strategic Nile island of Warraq The Egyptian authorities have earmarked more than 2,000 homes in Warraq Island for demolition [ More … ]
A prominent Italian journalist and historian has returned his Legion of Honor to the French Embassy to protest the awarding of the prize to Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Popular Italian journalist Corrado Augias has announced [ More … ]
Prisoners at Tora Istiqbal Prison are demanding putting an end to harsh disciplinary measures, according to rights groups Detainees at one of Egypt’s most notorious prisons have gone on hunger strike in protest against ill-treatment, [ More … ]
Prisoners in Egypt’s notorious high-security Aqrab (Scorpion) Prison have gone on hunger strike in protest at the death of a fellow inmate as a result of medical negligence. Dr. Amro Abou Khalil, a psychiatrist held [ More … ]
Hundreds of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank gathered on a hilltop to voice rejection of Israel’s annexation plan About 1,000 Jewish settlers took to a hilltop on the outskirts of the illegal Gush [ More … ]
Egyptian expatriates stranded in Qatar due to coronavirus outbreak have protested outside their country’s embassy, calling upon their government to facilitate their return home. However, no one of the protesters was arrested. More than a [ More … ]
The Batel (Void) Campaign has called, in a statement, on all Egyptians at home and abroad to demonstrate on the ninth anniversary of the January 25 revolution The popular campaign called on Egyptians to take [ More … ]
Palestinians in ‘Israel’ observe a general strike to protest police apathy toward rise in crime Palestinians inside ‘Israel’ observed today a general strike called for by the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee to protest Israeli police [ More … ]
Addressing nation, Al-Bashir calls on parliament to delay proposed constitutional amendments, declares the state of emergency Reported by Mohmed Amin in Anadolu Agency Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir dissolved the state and federal governments on Friday, [ More … ]
Dozens of Jordanians protested at the country’s prime ministry on Thursday against economic policies and corruption as part of a growing new, leaderless youth protest movement. Some 400 young Jordanians braved torrential rain, flooded streets [ More … ]
By: Ahmad Sadri* The Islamic Republic of Iran is the platypus of humanity’s political evolution. Episodic Iranian unrest, from the focused, reformist uprising of 2009 (led by middle-class protesters of Tehran) to the current, wildly [ More … ]
For the first time in six months, Egyptians lived for a few days outside of a state of emergency this month. And the country’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) ruled that ordinary courts — not military [ More … ]
Israeli forces suppressed a sit-in on Friday organized by Palestinians in the south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank in order to protest Israel’s construction of an army watchtower near the village of Dura. [ More … ]
Hundreds gather at Istanbul’s Yenikapi Square to show solidarity with Palestinians Women and men of all ages, student groups, and families came together at Istanbul’s Yenikapi Square on Sunday to show solidarity with Palestinians following [ More … ]
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