President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is to issue a presidential decree that “criminalises insulting the 25 January and 30 June uprisings.” The news was issued in a press release on Tuesday without providing more details. The 25 January 2011 uprising ended the 30-year … read more
Responding to a complaint about tear gas coming out of an apartment in Port Said’s Golf neighborhood, the police found and seized weapons and explosives in the apartment that belongs to Mohamed Mahmoud Tawfik, a police officer on pension. The … read more
Giza’s criminal court sentenced 188 defendants to death for a violent attack on a police station after last year’s ouster of president Mohamed Morsi that left 11 police personnel and two civilians dead. The defendants were found guilty of killing … read more
MENA Minister of Environment Khaled Fahmy asserted that the alternative fuel could solve the energy crisis in Egypt. In statements to the Middle East News Agency on the fringe of his participation in Intercem Energy Forum, Fahmy underlined the need … read more
An Egyptian woman died on Monday in Upper Egypt’s Minya governorate from complications from the H5N1 virus, or bird flu, raising the total number of victims to six in Egypt this year, the health ministry said in a statement. The … read more
Egypt’s General Prosecutor Hisham Barakat has tasked a team from the service to appeal the challengeable acquittal of former president Hosni Mubarak of murder and corruption charge. The appeal is supposed to be handled by the Court of Cassation. On … read more
The Anti-Coup Alliance called for million man march on Tuesday under the banner “God is Great… One Hand”. The call comes just days after the Cairo Criminal Court’s dismissal of charges against former president Hosni Mubarak, his sons, former interior … read more
After leaving work, Alaa Mohamed Ali, in her thirties, was on a bus back to her home in Haram when she was subject to a sexual assault. She decided to be proactive, asking the driver to pull over outside the Talbiya police … read more
An Egyptian militant organization allied with the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the killing of an American oil worker. Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which now refers to itself as the Sinai Province, said on its official Twitter account late … read more
The Egyptian private sector has been ranked as the world’s most corrupt, according to details of a report released by international audit firm Ernst and Young at the end of November. The global survey, conducted in 59 countries, ranked Egypt … read more