The Egyptian Parliament is expected to adopt earlier this week a constitutional reform that will eradicate the latest achievements of the 2011 revolution and allow Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to remain in power until. . . [ More … ]
Egypt blocked a petition website set up to collect signatures against an upcoming constitutional referendum hours after the platform was launched on Tuesday, an internet monitor said. The proposed amendments to the constitution would allow [ More … ]
Egyptians authorities executed 3 political prisoners today.Ahmed Elhendawy. Almoataz Alattar. Abdelhamid Metwally. Their families were supposed to visit them in prison today but the prison authorities told them they won’t see them because they are [ More … ]
At the time news spreads that Egypt will consider extending the presidential term allowing al-Sisi to stay in power beyond 2022, Open Democracy describe Egypt to be living a Horror Story. A report titled: Egypt:A [ More … ]
As the country marks the anniversary of the Tahrir Square protests, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is jailing dissidents, expanding censorship and perhaps looking to remain in power indefinitely. Eight years ago this week, protests erupted in [ More … ]
Three years after the disappearance, torture and murder of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni in Cairo, Egypt is stonewalling Italy’s efforts to investigate. In November, Italian prosecutors officially named five members of Egypt’s security services as [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities increasingly relied on counterterrorism and state of emergency laws to crush peaceful dissent during 2018, including by prosecuting journalists and human rights activists, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2019. [ More … ]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for regional unity against Iran in a speech in Cairo, one of several stops on his regional tour to reassure allies following President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement of [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi offered a rare acknowledgment of his close security cooperation with Israel in the Sinai peninsula during a U.S. television interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” news program broadcast on Sunday. The program [ More … ]
Egyptian security officials say three people have been injured in clashes between militants and local tribes in the Sinai peninsula. Egyptian tribal leaders and security officials say three people have been injured in clashes between [ More … ]
-Activists have called mass rallies on November 11 to protest price hikes in Egypt – Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has expected the failure of next month’s demonstrations called by anti-regime critics to protest recent price hikes [ More … ]
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