On Tuesday 17-year-old Alaa Yasser Farouk told lawyers that whilst detained she heard officers electrocuting her father and then was threatened with torture if she did not confess to joining and funding the Muslim Brotherhood. [ More … ]
Commenting on Alexandria’s St. Mark Cathedral attack, Kuwaiti security sources blamed the Egyptian authorities for releasing Abu Ishaq Al Masry, the suicide bomber and main suspect, after he had been deported from Kuwait and handed [ More … ]
Egypt’s Court of Alexandria for Urgent Matters referred to the Administrative court a lawsuit filed by Tarek Mahmoud, a lawyer, in which he demanded Qatar be considered a state sponsor of terrorism. According to the [ More … ]
General Khalifa Haftar, leader of Libyan militias known as the Libyan National Army (LNA) loyal to the parliament in Tobruk, has hailed Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi of Egypt for his strength in getting rid of the [ More … ]
One of the only Arab leaders to explicitly back Damascus is Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt who declared more than once his support to Bashar al-Assad and his army. Last November, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi admitted [ More … ]
The Egyptian Saudi relations took another body blow on January 16 when Egypt’s High Administrative Court rejected the transfer of Tiran and Sanafir islands to Saudi Arabia. Many observers believe that the two Red Sea islands’ [ More … ]
At the time when the Egyptian courts sentenced thousands of opponents, journalists and activists to prison and life imprisonment, an Egyptian court released a high-ranking police officer who was accused of killing protesters on January Revolution. [ More … ]
On August 24, King Abdullah of Jordan led a large delegation to Cairo where he met Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to discuss the situation in Syria and Iraq, the danger of Islamic State, the U.S. presidential [ More … ]
A military court in Egypt sentenced 418 opponents to prison terms ranging from two years to life in prison for their alleged involvement in violence at a police station in August 2013, according to a [ More … ]
In court, Dr. Mohamed El-Beltagy – a leading figure of the Muslim Brotherhood- mentioned during his testimony in Rabaa sit-in evacuation a new torture episode that occurred to him last Saturday August 6 ,2016. El-Beltagy [ More … ]
New Cairo misdemeanors court has ruled in its meeting held on Thursday to punish Hesham Genena, the former head of the Central Auditing Organization (CAO), one-year imprisonment with labor. The court ruled Genena a fine [ More … ]
A source unveiled to alkhaleej algadeed (an investigative online newspaper) that a meeting of a number of leaders in “Fethullah Gulen’s organization” who are located in African countries has been held in Cairo. The meeting discussed [ More … ]
A British delegation from the House of Commons has agreed that the Muslim Brotherhood must be labelled a terrorist organisation, according to Al-Ahram, a state owned newspaper. The Uk’s five-member delegation is headed by Gerald [ More … ]
A lawyer has filed an urgent complaint to the state security prosecution against Amira Iraqi who achieved first position and got the highest marks at the exams of Egypt’s General Certificate of Secondary Education (Thanawya Amma) in [ More … ]
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry considered that Turkey’s comments on the judicial sentences handed down against President Mohamed Morsi are a setback for future bilateral positive relations. In an iftar meeting with the editors-in-chief of [ More … ]
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