As COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh comes to an end, 4 UN rapporteurs have condemned authorities’ “intimidation, harassment, and surveillance of climate activists and civil society.” At the time when the UN climate conference, COP27, held [ More … ]
Human rights groups have blasted France for what they call playing a part in Egypt’s “bloody repression” of dissidents by providing the government of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi with state-of-the-art weapons and surveillance systems. A report [ More … ]
European Parliament’s (EP) vote today could stop the export of dangerous surveillance equipment to rights-abusing governments, according to a coalition of international NGOs. The vote, on European Union’s (EU) export control regime for dual-use items, [ More … ]
The last deadly attack on the police in Egypt’s Western Desert claimed by a new militant group inferred that Egypt’s al-Sisi is incapable of curbing the flow of terrorism that started to expand by opening [ More … ]
Israel’s signal intelligence Unit 8200 and America’s National Security Agency (NSA) spied on Egypt after the election of Mohamed Morsi as president in 2012, specialist magazine “Israeli Defense” claimed on Saturday. The Israeli magazine said [ More … ]
The Two EgyptAir employees, who found a travel bag containing a bomb on a Manhattan street last month and then walked off with the bag but left the bomb, were not just employees of EgyptAir [ More … ]
British Secretary of Defense Michael Fallon has headed a delegation to Egypt to meet his Egyptian counterpart, Sedki Sobhy. Egyptian army spokesman Mohamed Samir said in a statement that the two ministers discussed regional and [ More … ]
Hopes for freedom and democracy brought by January Revolution in 2011 have faded away after the military coup led by the former General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in 2013. As any autocratic regime, al-Sisi government tends [ More … ]
A Russian delegation is expected to arrive in Egypt to inspect the security measures in Egypt’s airports according to the chairman of the Egyptian Holding Company of Airports and Air Navigation (EHCAAN). The delegation’s inspections [ More … ]
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