Amnesty International organises demonstration against Sisi in Brussels

Over the weekend Amnesty International organised a demonstration in Brussels where Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi recently met with King Philippe of Belgium and the country's Prime...

Foreign investors sue Egypt for $15 billion

Egypt is one of several African countries that have been sued by foreign investors due to low profits as a result of domestic...

Human rights advocates demand holding perpetuators of Rab’a massacre accountable

The Shehab Centre for Human Rights demanded that the perpetuators of the Rab’a massacre from the Egyptian police and military and the responsible superior officials be held to account.

Continuous losses for Egypt’s construction sector

The monthly report issued by the Ministry of Housing and Utilities for the month of December 2019 has revealed that revenues in the construction sector in Egypt have continued...

Protests in Nasr City against the presidential development plan

A number of residents of the Sixth and Seventh neighbourhoods of Nasr City filed a lawsuit to the Administrative Court of the State Council, challenging the Prime...

In Egypt, your clothes could deprive you of your job

Egyptian Minister of Culture Enas Abdel Dayem has cancelled the appointment of a plastic artist as a director of one of the palaces...

Rights groups call upon IMF to condition social protection priority and detainees’ release in...

Seven human rights groups called upon the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ensure that any new loan program for Egypt expands social protection, enhances the independence of...

CFJ highlights that Egypt’s prosecution ignores prisoner complaints

The Committee for Justice association issued its semi-annual report about violations committed inside Egyptian prisons and detention places. The report title is, “We decided to close the...

10 human rights organisations demand immediate release of political activist Abdel Rahman Tarek

Ten human rights organisations have called on the Egyptian authorities, in a joint statement, to immediately release the detained political activist, Abdel Rahman Tarek, known as Mocha, and to...

Egypt: 1% increase in the average consumer price index

The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) in Egypt announced that the average consumer price index rose in January by one per cent, recording 119.1 points.