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When Al-Nadīm Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence says that 13 people died in places of detention in November, including nine as a result of torture, three as a result of medical negligence and one suicide case, we should be alerted. 
Pope Tawadros II, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, visited Jerusalem in November to pray over the body of Archbishop Anba Abrahām, the leader of the Coptic Church in the Holy Land. The visit caused much controversy in Egypt, and in particular in Egyptian media, literary and...
When the subject is Israel, passions flare.
Moscow and Cairo are in agreement on a policy of aggression toward political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood. Russia’s stance on political Islam is what drove it to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Russia’s designation of the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization...
The director of the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights have said that “corruption in Egypt is protected by law”. He also added that according to the centre’s last report titled “Commercial Activities and Human Rights”, economic elites are dominating the economy and blocking perfect...
  The Mufti wrote an article for a Kenyan newspaper titled “accepting the challenge against terrorism and radicalism”. In this article the Mufti argued that “terrorism is a great barrier for global peace and security”. According to the Mufiti’s article, terrorism is forbidden in all religions and “...
Madbouly Bookstore in Cairo, that also functions as a publishing house, refused to publish and distribute a book of Hamdy Al-Assuity and Magdy Khalil entitled "Contempt of Religions in Egypt".  The authors claim representatives from Al-Azhar and the Ministry of Religious Endowments put pressure on...
Sherif Gaber, a young Egyptian, has been on the run in his country since  The Suez Canal University reported him to the authorities for setting up an anti-Islam Facebook page in 2013. This happened after he openly argued with a professor at the University during a lecture about homosexuality. A...
Nilewater is becoming scarce and it is clear that a cooperative agreement among Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt is needed to avoid conflict and downstream harm.  In May 2015, the three countries engaged technical consultants to assist with these problems, but that arrangement has since collapsed over...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "praised the decision of the president to pardon 100 prisoners, including the Al Jazeera journalists." "[Ban] also called on President Sisi to exercise leadership in protecting human rights and human dignity in Egypt and in the region," the UN statement added.

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