The president is contacting the Supreme Judicial Council and the Judges Club to end the controversy over the Judicial Authority Law, which provoked demonstrations Friday titled “Purging the Judiciary,” Freedom and Justice Party sources said. The sources added the president … read more
Opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei criticized the Islamist-dominated Shura Council, describing it as incompetent and saying it tried to undermine freedoms and the judiciary. ElBaradei, a longtime reform advocate and Dostour Party leader, wondered on Twitter whether representatives of secular parties … read more
The prosecutor general canceled an order made by the Matay village prosecutor in Minya Governorate, Hussein Anany, that sentenced a man to 80 lashes for being found drunk and possession 25 grams of hashish, a Public Prosecution spokesperson said. “Anany … read more
Egypt’s North Sinai Security Directorate on Sunday announced that it had uncovered a spy ring operating in the area and had arrested someone from the northern city of Rafah on suspicion of spying for Israel. According to news reports, Egyptian … read more
The Shura Council (the upper house of Egypt’s parliament, currently endowed with legislative powers) has approved amendments to a controversial bill regulating public demonstrations. The Shura Council’s legislative committee on Sunday agreed to remove an article of the proposed protest … read more
Egypt’s ministry of electricity plans to use the short messages service (SMS) to inform citizens of the timing of power cuts during the summer, reported a local newspaper. People have to subscribe to this service and register their numbers in … read more
While the Egypt’s Shura Council ( upper house of the parliament) has sent a new revised election law to the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) to hasten its decision over the law legality, analysts believe the court is likely to ask … read more
A plague of locusts swept through Egypt a few weeks ago, an estimated 30 million of the critters. Egyptian officials tried to downplay the phenomenon, hoping to quash any biblical analogies. But more earthly indicators suggest that the blighted Egyptian … read more
The judge overseeing the lawsuit in which 26 people are accused of involvement in a Nasr City terrorist cell suspended the first session of the trial after arguments broke out among the defendants. Judge Shaaban Abdel Rahman al-Shamy also decided … read more
President Mohamed Morsy is set to announce a Cabinet reshuffle, a presidential aide said Saturday, but it is unlikely to meet opposition demands for a complete overhaul of the government. Morsy wrote on his Twitter account that he would make … read more