Egypt arrests 6 foreigners charged of espionage in Tahrir Square
CAIRO – 26 September 2019: Egyptian authorities arrested six foreigners and an Egyptian in Tahrir Square on Friday, September 20; they were assuming tasks related to the protests due to take place on the same day upon the calls of…
Over 1,900 arrested as Egypt braces for more protests
More than 1,900 people have been arrested in Egypt in the last week, as the country braces for further demonstrations on Friday against the rule of president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. The figures were compiled by the Cairo-based NGO the Egyptian…
Egypt military calls for Sisi to be ousted
Officers in Egypt’s military called on citizens to take to the streets and bring an end to President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s regime, Al-Khaleej Online reported yesterday. The Egypt Officers Front, which said it is loyal to former chief of staff…
UN postpones anti-torture conference in Cairo after backlash
The UN has postponed an anti-torture conference due to take place in Cairo, following an outcry from human rights activists who accused the organisation of “whitewashing” the Egyptian government’s abuses. The conference on “defining and criminalising torture in the Arab…
Life, Death and Laughter as Egypt Farmers Battle Climate Change
Packed into an open-air theater to watch a play on climate change, the Egyptian villagers near the ancient city of Luxor rock with laughter — even though it’s a performance about life and death. “What’s your secret?” asks one actor,…
Egypt torture conference ‘kafkaesque horror’, says head of revolutionary council
Head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council Maha Azzam has written to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria urging her to publicly condemn the regional conference on torture which will be held in Cairo at the beginning…
Bitter legacy of Rabaa massacre continues to haunt Egyptians
The bloody events of 14 August 2013, when Egyptian security forces killed at least 900 people during the violent dispersal of mass anti-government sit-ins in Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda squares, has cast a shadow over Egyptian society that lingers to…
US teenager pleads for Trump to help free his mother from Egyptian jail
Thirteen-year-old Moustafa Hamed said he and his mother, Reem Mohamed Desouky, were looking forward to their trip to Egypt. “We were excited to come to Egypt so we could spend time with our family during summer break,” the Pennsylvania teenager…
Egypt receives last tranche of IMF loan
August 7, 2019 On Monday Egypt received $2 billion, the last tranche of a $12 billion IMF loan under an agreement signed by the Egyptian government in August 2016. In a statement issued on Monday Egyptian Finance Minister Mohamed Mait…
Egypt’s Sisi signs amendments to law regulating trade unions
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi signed Law No. 142 of 2019 to amend several provisions of Law No 213 of 2017 related to trade unions. Under the amendments, the General Trade Union of Workers should include at least 10 unionist…
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