The cold pinches the Scorpion: a campaign of solidarity with detainees
On Sunday the Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed the imprisonment of political activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah and human rights lawyer Mohamed al-Baqir for 15 days pending case no. 1356 of 2019, in which they face charges of “spreading…
Continuous losses for Egypt’s construction sector
The monthly report issued by the Ministry of Housing and Utilities for the month of December 2019 has revealed that revenues in the construction sector in Egypt have continued to decline. The report confirmed the decline in the price of…
UNESCO warns against transferring Luxor sphinxes to Tahrir
Sheikha Mai Al Khalifa, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage of UNESCO, has sent a letter to Dr. Khaled al-Anani, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, expressing her objection to the transfer of…
New case for Ola al-Qaradawi's husband after his release
Engineer Hosam Khalaf, husband of Ola al-Qaradawi, appeared on Sunday at the Supreme State Security Prosecution on a new case charged with joining a terrorist group and financing terrorism. Hosam was released more than five months ago after being held…
Human rights report: Justice in Egypt declined in 2019
A report by the Arab Information Network in Egypt stated that the nature and numbers of judicial decisions issued in 2019 reveal a decline in justice in the country. The “2019 Harvest in the Judiciary” report monitored the numbers of…
A new victim in Egypt's prisons: They left him to die in the freezing cold
Human rights activists in Egypt have said that the Egyptian detainee, Mahmoud Abdel Majeed Mahmoud Saleh, died in his cell in the notorious Scorpion wing of Tora Prison, south of Cairo, as a result of medical negligence and severe cold….
Turkish intervention in Libya: Egypt has three options
After the Turkish parliament approved sending troops to Libya, Egypt is concerned, especially that it is in a strategic conflict with Ankara, not only in relation to the Libyan affair but in a number of key issues in the region,…
Egypt’s real estate tax: The principle is correct but the application is not
Parliament’s last session witnessed a number of controversial laws discussed by MPs, some of which were indeed approved and some were not. The proposal of the polygamy law was among the strangest of them. The project proposed to impose a…
Carnegie study reveals grave danger of Egypt military’s business
In October 2016, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that the volume of economic activities of the Egyptian armed forces ranges between 1 and 1.5 per cent of Egypt’s gross domestic product. Yet this contradicts many international estimates that range…
Will the Egyptian army fight in Libya?
Expanding the Libyan war into all-out war looms on the horizon as General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime uses actors, singers, and the media to mobilise the Egyptian people in support of any anticipated military action by the Egyptian army. After…
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