Lina Atallah: A journalist arrested without charge and released after foreign intervention
Maadi Public Prosecution (south of Cairo) has ordered the release of the editor-in-chief of Mada Masr news website on bail of EGP 2,000 after investigating her on Sunday evening. Lina Atallah, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, was detained…
Manshiet El-Bakry Hospital doctors reject plans for quarantine centre
Doctors at Manshiet El-Bakry General Hospital have announced that they have rejected the decision to transform the hospital into a quarantine centre for those suspected of being infected with coronavirus. The doctors presented an official letter to the Health Directorate…
Muted tension with Kuwait: Will the Egyptian regime lose an important regional ally?
The muted tension between Egypt and Kuwait has escalated recently, in a way that threatens the loss of an important regional ally and a financial supporter who has pumped billions of dollars as deposits and investments into the arteries of…
Laila Soueif: 64-year-old university professor sleeps in front of al-Sisi’s prison
University professor Laila Soueif, 64, waits throughout the day in front of Tora Prison in Cairo, at the closest possible point to her imprisoned son, Alaa Abdel Fattah, even sleeping on the pavement outside. At the end of the day,…
Al-Sisi uses the pandemic to gain new repressive powers
General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi never misses a chance to promote the oppressive regime he built since assuming power six years ago. In the middle of the coronavirus (COVID -19) pandemic, which infected about 11,000 people and cost the lives of 571 in…
Egypt journalist Haitham Mahgoub detained for reporting on COVID-19 crisis
The Egyptian Supreme State Security Prosecution decided, on Wednesday, to detain a journalist working for Al-Masry Al-Youm, Haitham Hassan Mahgoub, for a period of 15 days, accusing him of “joining a terrorist group.” Haitham’s arrest came days after he published…
Egypt’s doctors complain of governmental maltreatment
The General Syndicate of Doctors of Egypt announced on Thursday that it recorded more than 230 cases of coronavirus among doctors, in addition to 10 deaths. The number of infections among the members of the medical team has doubled, after…
Highway bridge built 50 centimetres from residential buildings draws criticism
Social media users are sharing images of the construction of Teraet Al-Zomor Bridge, also known as the King Salman Axis, which is worrying close to a number of residential buildings. Some images showed that the bridge is roughly 50 centimetres…
New road tolls imposed on residents of New Cairo cities
The National Road Company of the Egyptian Army has started collecting new road tolls on the Cairo-Suez Desert Road, which is the main road for entering the new Cairo cities, al-Shorouk, Badr and Madinaty. The road tolls gate caused heavy…
The unemployment rate in Egypt rose to 9.2% at the end of April
The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics in Egypt revealed that the unemployment rate rose to 9.2 per cent in April due to the coronavirus pandemic. The agency said that the precautionary measures taken by the government to confront…
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