The Egyptian Great Purge: Sisi to dismiss political opponents from public service
Egypt’s parliament approved, before
days, a bill allows the president to dismiss public servants with suspected
links with the Muslim Brotherhood or other “terrorists”. The new legislation,
known in media...
Sisi’s visit to Baghdad: What does Egypt want from the “new Levant” alliance?
The visit of Egyptian President Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi to Iraq, two days ago, reflected Cairo's interest in the
"New Levant Project", which it is launching in cooperation with
Baghdad and...
A cell for every citizen: 8 new prisons built in Egypt
The Egyptian Minister of Interior, Major
General Mahmoud Tawfiq, has issued a decision to build eight new central
prisons, bringing the number of prisons established since 2013 to about...
The impossible rapprochement between Cairo and Ankara
Recently, Turkey made a new step towards
Egypt when it totally suspended the activities of opponent Egyptian media
figures in Turkey. The new decision is not confined to TV...
Liquidation of EG-GATE reveals corruption of Tahya Masr Fund
In a small box, not larger than 20 cm2,
in one the Egyptian newspapers, the legal liquidator Abany Partners notifies
clients that EG-GATE is under liquidation. The liquidator demands...
4 years in prison for researcher Ahmed Samir: The Egyptian regime continues to punish...
Last Tuesday, the Emergency Supreme
State Security Court sentenced researcher Ahmed Samir Santawi, a master's
student at the Central European University, to four years in prison and a EGP
500...
Ramy Shaath: Two years in prison for ‘disturbing relations with Israel’
Ramy Shaath, the Egyptian-Palestinian
activist and coordinator of the BDS movement in Egypt, is close to completing
his second year in detention in Egyptian prisons without trial. His official
charge...
Egyptian law to dismiss drug abusers from public services raises concerns over corrupt implementation
A few
days ago, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ratified Law No. 73 of 2021, regarding some
conditions for holding or continuing jobs, which determines the penalty for
dismissal from employment for...
Abbas Kamel: Sisi’s trusted man has limited efficiency
From
Khartoum to Juba and from Tel Aviv to Gaza, General Abbas Kamel, Egyptian
General Intelligence Directorate GID, moves tirelessly holding Egypt’s foreign
policy in his tight grip. But, remembering...
GERD crisis: Arabs own cards on Ethiopia, but not for use
Arab
League foreign ministers met, on Tuesday, in Doha in response to a joint Egyptian
Sudanese call for discussing the conflict over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance
Dam and its effect...