Month: March 2020

Three teenage girls committed suicide in Egypt

Egyptian mass media said that three girls under the age of 16 were collectively suicide using poisonous pills in Sharkia province one of the Egyptian governorates. Investigations of the public prosecution said that two students committed suicide Thursday morning inside…

ANHRI: Mubarak and Morsi don`t receive equal treatment before the law

The Arab Network for Human Rights Information issued a report saying that away from political matters, citizens are not equal before the law and in prisons as well as presidents, including former Egyptian presidents Mohamed Hosni Mubarak and Mohamed Morsi….

How Egypt was deceived in the Renaissance Dam negotiations?

After Ethiopia declared its rejection of the formula of the Renaissance Dam agreement that was sponsored by Washington, It seemed that the Egyptian regime was deceived in those negotiations, as the United States do not seem intent to take any…

A rare official confession to torture in Egypt

The annual report of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) in Egypt (governmental) recognized the existence of torture by the Egyptian authorities. The NCHR called for amending the criminalization of torture and ill- treatment in the Penal Code to…

Egypt challenges Coronavirus by selling 30% of Banque du Caire shares

Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt, Gamal Negm, announced that the shares of Banque du Caire (government) will be offered for sale on the Egyptian Stock Exchange next April. This news comes amid increasing expectations that the IPO…

In Egypt, only Asian tourists get tested for coronavirus

Osama Gaweesh and Amelia Smith When Bill Jones[i] and his partner arrived at Luxor Airport to prepare to fly back to Cairo at the end of February, it was the end of a two-week tour around the main sites of…

Has the Egyptian economy been infected by the Coronavirus?

The Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly asked the Economic Ministerial Committee for a comprehensive vision on the scenarios of the impact of Coronavirus on the global economy, what observers confirmed was an attempt to counter the negative repercussions of the…

Mass suicide of three girls: New rare and terrifying accident in Egypt

Three girls, aged 14, died after they committed suicide by consuming tablets containing aluminum phosphide, which are used to kill small animals including rats in Sharkia Governorate, north of Cairo. This is a rare case of mass suicide in the…

9 senators call on Egypt to respect human rights

Nine members of Congress, including Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Alexandra Suarez sent a letter to Egypt’s Ambassador to Washington Yasser Reda, expressing concern for them about human rights violations in Egypt, calling for an end to violations such as…

Security forces arrested 84 Eritrean refugees

Ali Abdel Rahman, head of the Eritrean Refugee Committee in Egypt, said that security forces arrested 84 Eritrean refugees last Sunday, most of the young men, including about four women. Abdel Rahman noted that the majority of those arrested were…