Six Islamist-leaning political parties on Thursday condemned recent calls by Egypt’s High Constitutional Court (HCC) to grant military and police personnel the right to vote in national elections. The six parties included the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, the … read more
A law drafted by the Egyptian presidency for regulating non-governmental organisations dashes hopes for a free civil society after the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. President Mohamed Morsi has said the bill submitted to … read more
Egyptian prosecutors on Tuesday began investigating a complaint filed by the brother of Sayed Belal – a young Salafist who died in police custody in early 2011 – against the owner of Alexandria’s Zekleh Medical Centre and a state security … read more
The anti-President Morsi ‘rebel’ campaign plans to hold a press conference on Wednesday to reveal the number of signatures they have managed to collect countrywide since the campaign’s launch. The initiative, which officially began on 1 May, hopes to collect … read more
Despite recent amendments by Egypt’s presidency, rights activists say that proposed legislation regulating the activities of NGOs operating in the country remains dangerously repressive. “With these amendments, the law is going from bad to worse,” Mohamed Zaree, Egypt programme director … read more
Egypt’s stance towards Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam is clear and did not change, the Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Bahaa Eddin said on Tuesday in an official statement. He explained that Ethiopia’s decision to start diverting the course of … read more
Ethiopia, a country from which some 85 percent of the Nile River is sourced, may have aggravated water resource tensions with Sudan and Egypt, two downstream Nile River countries. On May 28, Ethiopia began diverting water from the Blue Nile … read more
Egypt’s Salafist Watan Party on Monday denied that party chairman Emad Abdel-Ghafour had granted any interviews to the Israeli press, insisting that recent media reports to this effect were “false.” The Times of Israel, an Israeli English-language news website, published … read more
Egyptian prosecutors are investigating allegations that an Iraqi man, who owns a television channel operating in Egypt, has been promoting Shiism. Ali El-Kazemy, who reportedly holds a Dutch passport, is also accused of illegally airing media content via the internet … read more
Leading Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei met Sunday with members of the Tamarod (Rebel) campaign — a recent petition campaign aimed at forcing President Morsi to hold early presidential elections — campaign spokesman Mahmoud Badr told Al-Ahram Arabic news website. … read more