Several Alexandria-based rights lawyers filed a legal complaint on Saturday against an op-ed writer who wrote approvingly in an article about the killing of street children in Brazil by security forces, reported the Al-Ahram Arabic website. In an op-ed … read more
Neamat Saty, the Youth Ministry’s director of civic education, would work with Ahmed Turky, the head of the Endowment Ministry’s mosques management unit, and a team of psychiatrists to form a national strategy to eradicate atheism. Although Article 64 of … read more
In contrast to President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s overtures to Muslim Brotherhood members not involved in violence in the post-30 June 2013 period, the government is continuing to follow through on policies aimed at politically eliminating the Islamist organisation and cutting off … read more
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cairo on Sunday for talks with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi over Egypt’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and the threat which the conflict in Iraq poses to the Middle East. Kerry is … read more
To eradicate the phenomena of the street children, the Egyptian government should follow Brazil’s solution of killing them, Egyptian columnist and academic professor Nasar Abdullah suggested, which sparked anger among citizens, especially human rights activists. Abdullah, who is also a … read more
An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 182 others to death on Saturday over violence that occurred in the southern governorate of Minya last year. The court also sentenced four to life and acquitted 496 people on … read more
An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced a number of top Muslim Brotherhood leaders to death Thursday, judicial sources said. The convicted include the Brotherhood’s supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, and top leaders Safwat Hegazi and Mohamed El-Beltagi, as well as … read more
The daylight saving time will be put on hold starting Thursday 26 June and will be restored after the holy month of Ramadan ends, Egypt’s cabinet has said. The summer time will be temporarily halted as of Thursday night, the … read more
Egypt’s Religious Endowments Minister has said that Friday will witness a close monitoring of the noon prayer sermons at mosques to put into effect a law tightening control on these sermons. There will be no leniency with violators, said Minister … read more
Deposed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak broke his leg on Thursday after falling while walking to the bathroom at a Cairo military hospital where he is being held, a military source at the hospital told Reuters. Mubarak, 86, fractured the top … read more