On October 28, at an unexpected move, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s dismissed his Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff Mahmoud Hegazy,but although the reasons behind the decision remain unclear, available information points at recent tensions between two men [ More … ]
Two weeks after President Trump met Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Washington, an Egyptian court acquitted a U.S. aid worker who spent almost three years in pretrial detention for her work with an organization helping street children. In [ More … ]
Egypt’s former Vice-President for Foreign Affairs Mohamed ElBaradei condemned the release of wiretapped private phone conversations on an Egyptian pro-regime TV channel and stressed that they were “distorted” ElBaradei said on his Twitter account that Wiretapping [ More … ]
The existence of most prominent human rights organizations existence in Egypt has become at risk after the ruling of the Cairo criminal court on September 17 to freeze the assets of three groups, as well [ More … ]
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