The Egyptian parliament is mulling the replacement of prison sentences with community service for inmates convicted of minor offenses. The aim is to reduce the cost of incarcerations and ease prison overcrowding by having offenders work in small and medium-sized enterprises rather than occupy jail cells. The … read more
Egypt’s central bank is expected to leave interest rates on hold at its policy meeting on Thursday as emerging market turbulence weighs on the economy even as inflation shows signs of slowing. Twelve economists polled by Reuters said the bank’s … read more
Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld the prison sentences and death penalty Monday handed to 135 people in the case of the deadly attack on a police station in the town of Kerdasa in 2013. In July 2017, a criminal court … read more
Amid his high-level meetings as part of the week-long United Nations General Assembly 73rd meeting in New York on Monday, Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi met with U.S. President Donald Trump for the fourth time since Trump came to power. … read more
An Egyptian court on Monday upheld death sentences for 20 Islamists convicted of killing 13 policemen during violent unrest after the military overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi in 2013. “The verdict is final and cannot be appealed,” a judicial official … read more
An advertisement on a Facebook group in Egypt offering a child up for sale has sparked public outrage. The post by a woman with the profile name Hana Mohammad said, “If there is anyone who is interested to adopt an … read more
A British woman jailed in Egypt for taking hundreds of painkillers into the country has lost an appeal against her conviction. Laura Plummer, 34, was sentenced to three years in prison on Boxing Day last year after customs officials found … read more
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced the Supreme Guide of Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie to life imprisonment over storming a police station in the Upper Egypt’s province of Minya in 2013, state-run TV reported. A total of 64 other members … read more
The attack from Parliament’s Greens/EFA group comes after EU leaders at the informal summit in Austria agreed to enter talks with Egypt in a bid to reduce the number of migrants entering the European Union from Africa. The move has … read more
“I don’t want to go to school anymore,” Maryam Mahmoud, a nine-year-old attending an Egyptian private school, complained to her mother. “All my friends hate me.” Hanaa Ahmed, Maryam’s mother, told Al-Monitor, “It took me some time to understand that her reluctance … read more