At a Thursday press conference held at Egyptian Popular Current headquarters, 16 political parties and movements announced plans to take part in nationwide protests on Friday. Calls for the demonstrations were originally issued by the National Salvation Front (NSF), Egypt’s … read more
The office of Egypt’s prosecutor-general announced on Thursday that it was looking into the recent arrest of an individual accused of belonging to the proscribed ‘Black Bloc’ group in a building overlooking Cairo’s Tahrir Square. The prosecutor-general’s office said the … read more
U.N. officials deplored reports that 25 women were sexually assaulted during protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and demanded that Egyptian authorities take steps to bring the perpetrators to justice. The executive director of the U.N. Entity for Gender Equality and … read more
Human rights abuses have continued unabated since President Mohamed Morsy took office, the Human Rights Watch asserted in its yearly report on the MENA region. “After what has become known as the Arab Spring, the biggest challenge that the countries … read more