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MP Muḥammad Anwar as-Sādāt, head of the Human Rights Committee in the House of Representatives, said that Egypt is living on foreign funding, aid, loans and foreign financing.
On Thursday, Minya Criminal Court, headed by Judge Ṭaha ‘Abd al-Wahhā, adjourned the trial of 21 persons accused of involvement in riots that broke out during a  protest in Ābū Qurqāṣ at the Al- ḥaʾ mosque. The trial was adjourned to the 2nd of August. The adjourning came in light of the absence...
While the spotlight on Women's Day focus on some feminists who seek to empower women on the political level, and some others who criticize the prevalence of "macho culture" in society, there are in Upper Egypt, away from the hustle of the capital, women who are concerned with other issues related...
Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church expressed its concern over calls to a protest scheduled to for September 9 in front of the Cathedral in east of Cairo. The protest organized by a group of Coptic activists will be held under the slogan “The People Are Angry [at the church leadership].”
The ministry of interior accuses leaders of the Muslim Brotherhoods abroad of leading violent extremist groups. Muhammad Muntasir the spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, rejected the accusations and said “we refuse violence and our revolution will remain peaceful”. Read more here
The long-awaited parliamentary election, starting on Oct. 18-19, witnesses many of the candidates who were prominent political faces from the era of the president Mubarak who was toppled by the January 25 Revolution in 2011. It also witnesses the absence of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group and...
During a press conference held today in the headquarters of Egypt's National Council for Human Rights NCHR, president Mohammad Fayek announced that all Egyptian prisons were “completely free of systematic torture”.
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