8 Egyptians deported from Kuwait presented to prosecution for belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood
August 7, 2019 The Supreme State Security Prosecution on Monday arrested eight Egyptians who were deported from Kuwait several weeks ago for 15 days in connection with investigations into their alleged membership of the Muslim Brotherhood. The prosecution has accused…
20 killed and dozens injured: conflicting accounts about Cairo explosion
August 6, 2019 Twenty Egyptians were killed and dozens wounded in an explosion outside the Institute of Oncology in central Cairo on Sunday evening. Official accounts on the cause of the explosion contradicted earlier explanations. Initially doctors from inside…
How Sissi’s Egypt Hands Out Justice
KAFR AL-SHEIKH, EGYPT – Security forces detained Lotfy Ibrahim, a young construction worker, as he left a mosque near his home on the Nile Delta in the spring of 2015. When his family finally saw him again nearly three months…
Prosecution investigates killing of two inside Alexandria police station
August 1, 2019 The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) said on Wednesday that prosecutors are investigating the killing of two people inside El-Dekheila police station in Alexandria during their detention. ECRF confirmed that one of the two victims…
Amnesty International: 130 prisoners on hunger strike in Egypt
August 1, 2019 About 130 detainees in the heavily guarded Scorpion wing of Tora Prison have been on hunger strike for the last six weeks. Strikers are protesting against the prevention of visits since their arrest two years ago, Amnesty…
Sisi laughs at economic decline in Egypt
August 1, 2019 Abdel Fattah al-Sisi burst out laughing, taunting the difficult economic climate and societal deterioration in Egypt at an annual youth conference held earlier this week. “If people in Egypt had rejected economic reforms we would have held…
Egypt owes $14.5 billion of debt in next 6 months
August 1, 2019 Egypt has to repay $12.7 billion in premiums and $1.8 billion in interest during the second half of 2019, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said on Tuesday. The debt is divided into $1.48 billion for Paris…
Son of former justice minister Ahmed Suleiman: My father is subject to deliberate medical negligence
August 1st, 2019 The son of Ahmed Suleiman, the former minister of justice in the government of the late President Mohamed Morsi, revealed on Tuesday that his father has suffered for eight months in prison and said that freedom…
ECRF file lawsuit demanding disclosure of Mustafa al-Najjar’s place of detention
August 1st, 2019 The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), an Egyptian civil society organisation, have filed a lawsuit to the Administrative Court of the State Council to demand the disclosure of former MP Mustafa al-Najjar’s place of detention….
In Egypt, the curse of stray dogs haunts the government
August 1st, 2019 Egyptian Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad has tried to defend the government’s policy to kill stray dogs in Egypt by asserting that the shooting of dogs in the street is not why snakes have emerged. The minister’s…
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