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Civil society in Egypt is strong and diverse, according to Hāfez Abū Se`da, Member of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) and Egyptian Organization for Human Rights Chairman. He added that there are non-governmental organizations and the National Council for Human Rights.
The seven Egyptian men headed east by car from the Libyan city of Sirte on Dec. 29, starting the long drive back to Egypt. On the outskirts of the city, located on the Mediterranean coast, armed men stopped the vehicle. Several of the men called their families back home. “We’re kidnapped,” one told...
When President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi attended the Judges Day celebration at the High Court of Justice this month, he told an audience of judges and prosecution officials: “I was keen, since I took responsibility, on reaffirming the independence of the judiciary.”
Efforts to protect women from systemic violence have been largely symbolic, human rights group says.
The undersigned organizations condemn the recent decisions to ban some democracy advocates from traveling, based on decisions by the investigative judge in the “foreign funding case.”
Minister of Transitional Justice Ibrahīm al-Henēdi announced Tuesday the government is negotiating with the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights to establish a regional office in Cairo.
Egypt's President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi said Tuesday that those questioning his government about human rights and freedom of expression are ignoring the fact that his country of 90 million lacks development, investment and desperately needed stability.
Since the official start of the registration process on 12 January, the Ministry of Solidarity issued permits for 43 Egyptian NGOs to observe the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to Ayman ʿAbd al-Jawwād, general manager of NGOs at the ministry.
Mansheyet Nāsser is mostly a Coptic area situated on the lowest slope of the Moqattam hill. This is the residence of the Zabalīn, or slum dwellers, who cart away the rubbish of Cairo metropolis. Apart from a dozen houses inhabited by Muslims and a small “masjid” (mosque) among the dusty roads...
Thousands of mourners gathered at a mosque outside Cairo Sunday for the funeral of actor Fāten Hamāma, a pillar of Middle Eastern cinema who died a day earlier after a career that spanned seven decades and graced the golden age of Egyptian film-making.

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