Month: July 2019

Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah sues Egypt President

July 5, 2019 Activist and blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah has filed a lawsuit against the President of the Republic and the Minister of Interior to enable him to take a laptop and a mobile phone with him whilst he is…

Egypt authorities detain Al-Qaradawi’s daughter again

The Egyptian State Security Prosecution has decided to imprison Ola, the daughter of Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, former head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, in a new case. This came a day after the Cairo Criminal Court issued a…

Abdel Fotouh takes scant breaths within the four walls of his cell

Ahmed GamalJuly 4, 2019 The prominent political opponent and former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh talked to Al Jazeera in February 2018 to express his own perspective on Egypt after state media closed off all forms of expression. The…

In Sinai, people suffer beyond imagination

Kareem RaafatJuly 5, 2019 Nine civilians were killed in the North Sinai Governorate last week, after a shell hit their house in the area south of Sheikh Zuweid. Seven of them owned the house, the other two were kidnapped by…

Muslim Brotherhood: we will not offer candidates for elections again

  July 4, 2019 Spokesman of the General Bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood, Abbas Qabari, has talked to the website Arab 21 about the strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood in the coming period after the death of former President Mohamed…

Shock for Egypt as government announces rise of gas prices

July 4, 2019 The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources set the date for the increase in gas prices at 8:00 am on Thursday July 4. Following the news, gas stations became very busy.  The increase in gas prices comes…

Opposition bloc in Egypt parliament refuses to “slaughter” political life in Egypt

July 4, 2019 Opposition parliamentary bloc 25-30 has issued a sharp statement objecting to the “slaughter” of political life in the country and the campaign to “liquidate” MP and member of the bloc Ahmed Tantawi, according to a statement. “The…

Amnesty International: Egypt has experienced catastrophic deterioration in human rights since al-Sisi took power

July 4, 2019 On Wednesday Amnesty International published a report on the human rights situation in Egypt since the arrival of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The Egyptian authorities are trying to normalise human rights violations by issuing a series of…

Al-Qaradawi’s granddaughter demands the release of her parents

July 2, 2019 Aya, daughter of Ola al-Qaradawi and granddaughter of Islamic preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi, former president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, has demanded the release of her mother and father Hossam Khalaf after two years in prison…

Egypt on a date with fuel and electricity hikes

July 2, 2019 In conjunction with the start of Egypt’s new fiscal year, July 1 2019 to June 30 2020, the price of electricity has increased by an average of 14.9 per cent. The highest rate of increase in prices…