Egypt: Violations against journalists intensify
Egypt ranks 163 out of 180 countries in the Reporters without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, due to media restrictions that limit the independence of the press. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Egypt is the third largest…
Egypt retracts inclusion of media as terror entity after foreign pressure
The Egyptian parliament has retracted the inclusion of satellite channels in the Terrorist Entities Law, which was approved in principle and referred to the State Council for its opinion in accordance with the constitution. During the plenary session, the House…
College student tries to set teacher on fire
A third year student at the Faculty of Commerce at Alexandria University who assaulted his professor has been imprisoned. The student beat his professor around the head with a gun, poured petrol on him and then tried to set him…
Egypt teacher harassed 120 primary school students
The Supreme Administrative Court in Egypt has issued a final ruling banning a maths teacher in Alexandria from teaching after he was convicted of sexually harassing 120 female primary school children. The national newspaper Akhbar Al Youm described it as…
Egypt Aluminium Company continues at a loss
The Egypt Aluminium Company has announced that it has made a loss of EGP 596 million during the first half of the current fiscal year. In the same period of last year it made profits estimated at EGP 758 million….
New victims die in Egypt’s prisons from medical negligence
Two detainees have died in Egyptian prisons and detention centres in 24 hours as a result of medical negligence, raising the death toll in prisons in Egypt since the beginning of this year to more than 10. The Egyptian citizen…
Yasser Al-Baz: The Canadian detainee chasing al-Sisi in Africa
General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi did not expect that Canadian detainee Yasser al-Baz would chase him in Ethiopia while he was attending the African Union summit. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised Yasser’s plight during his meeting with al-Sisi on the…
Cairo Airport: A trap for Egypt’s regime opponents
While airports are supposed to be safe places through which people travel to new countries, opponents of the Egyptian regime view Cairo Airport as a trap for anyone who criticises General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime. These charges became more urgent…
Coronavirus affects Egypt’s economy
Although Egyptian authorities have announced that no new cases of coronavirus have been recorded, the virus appears to have affected the Egyptian economy. Sources in the Suez Canal Authority in Egypt expected that the Suez Canal revenues would be affected…
Egypt Health Minister accuses medical syndicate of disturbing public security
Health Minister Hala Zayed has accused the General Syndicate of Doctors of disturbing public security, fabricating crises, and provoking doctors. The minister accused the syndicate of inflaming public opinion by inciting doctors after a number of them backed out of…
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