Sisi gives Egypt's military new powers after Sinai attack
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has authorised the military to protect state facilities after jihadists killed more than 30 soldiers last week. A spokesman said the new law aimed to protect...
View ArticleDeadly Attacks On Security Personnel In Egypt Spur Stronger Crackdown On Dissent
ISTANBUL -- After twin attacks Friday that killed 33 security personnel in the restive Sinai Peninsula, Egypt and its pro-government institutions have responded with an emboldened campaign against...
View ArticleSisi gives Egypt military new powers after Sinai attack
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has authorised the military to protect state facilities after jihadists killed more than 30 soldiers last week. A spokesman said the new law gives the army the...
View ArticleEgypt journalists defy editors on freedoms
Click photo to enlarge Eight Egyptian men convicted for "inciting debauchery" following their appearance in a video of an alleged same-sex wedding party on a Nile boat cover their faces as they leave...
View ArticleFamily of Jailed Activists Announce Full Hunger Strike
[Aswat Masriya]Cairo -The family of jailed political activists Alaa Abdel Fattah and his sister Sanaa Seif announced going on a full hunger strike on Monday in response to the activists' imprisonment....
View ArticleEgyptian court sentences 23 secular activists to 3-year prison terms
In the latest blow to freedom of expression and assembly in Egypt, a Cairo court on Sunday sentenced nearly two dozen secular activists to three-year prison terms for violating a law that essentially...
View ArticleEgyptian court jails 23 activists for protesting
An Egyptian court on Sunday convicted 23 activists, including prominent rights campaigners, of staging an illegal demonstration and sentenced them each to three years in jail. The Cairo court also...
View ArticleEgypt's Confusomania
Egypt's recent sentencing of 23 pro-democracy activists to three years in jail is the latest in a series of verdicts that has included the Al-Jazeera journalists trial (sentenced to between seven and...
View ArticleEgypt: Release activists facing jail for defying repressive protest law...
(Source: Amnesty International Australia) The Egyptian authorities must release a group of activists on trial for defying the country's draconian protest law, Amnesty International said ahead of...
View ArticleEgypt: Release activists facing jail for defying repressive protest law...
(Source: Amnesty International) The Egyptian authorities must release a group of activists on trial for defying the country's draconian protest law, Amnesty International said ahead of Sunday's verdict...
View ArticleEgypt postpones talks on Gaza’s future after Sinai attacks
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View ArticleEgypt: ?Press release: Increased repression against human rights defenders...
(Source: OMCT - World Organisation Against Torture) Save as PDF 2 pages / 125 KB Paris-Geneva, October 28, 2014 - The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of...
View ArticleEgypt activists jailed for three years for 'illegal protest'
An Egyptian court has sentenced 23 activists to three years in jail for breaching a controversial protest law. The activists include Yara Sallam and Sanaa Seif - prominent civil rights campaigners....
View ArticleEgypt Court Detains Rights Activists at Start of Retrial
VOA News An Egyptian judge ordered 21 democracy activists arrested on Monday at the start of their retrial for breaking a law against protests that was passed after the military last year ousted...
View ArticleEgypt's military to guard key state installations
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Monday ordered the military to join police forces in guarding vital state facilities against terror attacks, a move that would expand the...
View ArticleEgypt moves against both terror and dissent
CAIRO (AP) — In its latest move against terror and dissent, Egypt on Monday declared all key government facilities military establishments protected by troops for the next two years and detained a...
View ArticlePro-democracy activist detained
CAIRO — An Egyptian court has ordered the detention of one of the country’s most prominent pro-democracy activists at the start...
View Article>Prominent Egyptian activist jailed after hearing
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has ordered the detention of one of the country's most prominent pro-democracy activists at...
View ArticleProminent Egyptian activist jailed after hearing
CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian court has ordered the detention of one of the country's most prominent pro-democracy activists at the start of his retrial for breaking a draconian law on demonstrations. Alaa...
View ArticleProminent Egyptian blogger back behind bars
An Egyptian court has ordered prominent activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, back to jail after he was previously freed on bail during a trial for taking part in an illegal protest. Activist Mona Seif, Alaa's...
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