Several hundred protesters who staged an overnight demonstation in Cairo’s Tahrir square after a deadly military crackdown remained in the square on Sunday after the army backed down on a threat to disperse them. The protesters, who have barricaded the … read more
Egypt has made progress on human rights since the revolution that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak earlier this year, a United Nations team reported, while noting a number of challenges that need to be tackled such as combating impunity … read more
Two months after Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, Egyptian politics are a dervish of confused agitation. Each day, it seems, a new party forms to fill liberal, Nasserist, Marxist, Islamist and other niches. A joke has it that 10% of Egyptians plan … read more
A blogger was jailed recently for “insulting the military.” Human rights advocates say that thousands of people have been arrested and tried before military courts in the last two months. Protesters have been tortured and female activists subjected to so-called … read more
Throngs of people crowded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday in an effort to inject new life into Egypt’s revolution and push the country’s ruling military council to prosecute the former president, Hosni Mubarak, who stepped down under immense popular … read more
Hundreds of protesters demanding that Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president, be put on trial for alleged corruption, have retaken Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square, hours after security forces attempted to disperse them. By 7am (local time) on Saturday morning, army … read more
As everyone knows, Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt could be a harsh and repressive place. A little over a year ago, in February 2010, blogger Ahmed Mustafa found this out firsthand. An engineering student from Upper Egypt, Mustafa was arrested that month … read more
A new report has challenged the perception that the Egyptian military played a positive role in the country’s revolution earlier this year. The report, by Egyptian activist Maikel Nabil Sanad, has been publicised by War Resisters International (WRI), a global … read more
Banners fluttering from the rooftop of Cairo University’s faculty of mass communications denounce the dean as a Mubarak-era lackey. Fistfights between the dean’s student opponents and supporters erupt like summer squalls, with the din often emptying classrooms as students pour … read more
Egyptian state prosecutors have ordered that a former top aide to Hosni Mubarak, the country’s ousted president, be jailed for 15 days pending a corruption investigation. Zakaria Azmi, Mubarak’s chief of staff for 22 years, was arrested on Thursday after … read more