Khaled Elbalshy: Dissident leftist journalist wins the syndicate elections
Saturday, Khaled Elbalshy, editor-in-chief of the Darb news website, the mouthpiece of the left-wing Popular Socialist Alliance Party, won the elections of the Journalists’ Union. Balshy got 2450 votes, outperforming his main rival, the state-sponsored editor-in-chief of the state-owned Akhbar…
Egyptian government to sell 10% stake in Telecom Egypt
On Monday, Reuters reported that the Egyptian government intends to sell 10% of its stake in Telecom Egypt. Telecom Egypt’s net profit amounted to nine billion and 187 million Egyptian pounds in 2022. 20% of Telecom Egypt is freely traded,…
Mada Masr journalists to trial for unveiling financial scandals in a state-sponsored political party
The Guardian published this report shortly after the arrest of Egyptian journalists in a new campaign launched by the Egyptian government against dissenting voices: Three journalists from Egypt’s last remaining independent news outlet have gone on trial in Cairo on…
Egyptian emergency court sentences 30 human rights defenders to long-term imprisonment
An Egyptian emergency court has sentenced 30 defendants to life, including Aisha Khairat al-Shater, daughter of the Muslim Brotherhood’s deputy general guide Khairat al-Shater, and human rights lawyers Hoda Abdel Moneim and Ezzat Ghoneim. On Saturday, nine human rights groups…
Political activist Mohamed Adel kept in pretrial detention for a new case
On Saturday, Egyptian political activist Mohamed Adel was referred for investigation on terrorism-related charges. Lawyer Nabih Al-Janadi said that the first session of Adel’s trial would be in April. Adel is one of the founders of the April 6 Movement…
Sisi’s demand for the people to report each other creates a police state
On February 26, while the president was inspecting the alignment of mechanisms to start the new “national” projects in the Sinai, with “the end of the war on terror” in the second part, the president and those with him came…
Rights groups express deep concern about abuses in Badr Prison Complex
Nineteen human rights groups have issued a joint statement expressing their deep concern about the grave violations and abuses committed by the Egyptian authorities in the Badr Prison Complex, which constitute, they said, a flagrant violation of the constitution, laws,…
Belgium’s parliament urges the Egyptian government to stop violations of human rights
On Thursday, the Belgian parliament urged its government to take a firm position against abuses and violations of human rights in Egypt. Most parliamentarians voted to demand that their government take action to enhance the human rights situation in Egypt,…
An Egyptian army officer was killed and four soldiers wounded in South Sinai
On Tuesday, an Egyptian army officer was killed, and four soldiers were wounded in an attack by Islamic State – Sinai Province militants in South Sinai. The spokesman for the Egyptian Armed Forces did not issue any statements about the…
Société Générale says the Egyptian pound would depreciate by about 10%
On Saturday, Société Générale predicted that the value of the Egyptian pound would soon depreciate by about 10%. Egypt suffers from unprecedented inflation, which reached 31.2% last January. The country is likely to devalue its currency again shortly, according to…
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