Egypt Independent Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri has expressed his concern at the “unprecedented” spate of untimely deaths of Egyptian expatriates living in Italy, the United States and the United Kingdom, stressing that Egyptian diplomats are following up carefully with investigations … read more
A Cairo court sentenced on Wednesday political activist Sanaa Seif for six months for “insulting the judiciary” while the prominent young activist says “she has no more energy.” Neither Seif nor her lawyer attended today’s session, an eyewitness told Aswat Masriya. … read more
Salah Abdel Sadeq, head of the State Information Service, has blamed the spread of violence and extremism in the Arab world on Tom & Jerry cartoons and video games. In a speech at the conference, “Media and Culture of … read more
A few hundred students at the American University in Cairo (AUC) called for the immediate release of their detained colleague Ibrahim Tamer on Wednesday. Security forces arrested Tamer, popularly known among his friends as Bebo, from the airport on Apr. … read more
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told a US congressional delegation in Cairo on Tuesday that the issue of human rights and freedoms in Egypt should not be approached from a “Western perspective” due to differences in challenges and domestic and regional … read more
Egypt’s government-appointed press council has condemned what it described as a blockade imposed by police on the Journalists Syndicate building in Cairo, declaring full solidarity with the union after it was raided by security forces earlier this week. The High Press … read more
Tens of pro-government supporters gathered near the Press Syndicate’s headquarters on Wednesday as the syndicate’s general assembly is poised to hold an emergency meeting to discuss a police raid on the syndicate and the arrest of two journalists. Egyptian security forces … read more
Egypt’s main state-run newspaper al-Ahram condemned the interior ministry’s “storming” or the “house of journalists” in what has been called an “unprecedented editorial” on Tuesday. The editorial came as a response to the security forces’ raid of the Press Syndicate’s headquarters … read more
Egypt Independent A report issued on Tuesday by Transparency International, a global civil society anti-corruption organization, stated that 28 percent of citizens in Egypt believe that corruption rates have increased in 2015. The survey, which was conducted on nine Arab … read more
Aswat Masriya The interior ministry has set a plan to “secure” Easter celebrations on Monday, May 8th, which includes the use of “secret police” to arrest those who commit sexual harassment, Maj. General Amgad Shafei told Aswat Masriya. Shafei added … read more