A court in Egypt has sentenced to death more than 500 supporters of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood following violence that broke out in the southern city of Minya last August. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry puts the number of those sentenced … read more
Amnesty International has censured Egypt for handing down death sentences to more than 500 supporters of the country’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi in a “grotesque” ruling. In a statement issued on Monday, the UK-based rights group described the mass death … read more
Shots were fired from Egyptian territory towards Israeli troops across the border, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported on Monday. No injuries were reported. A rising Islamist insurgency in the border Sinai Peninsula has increasingly targeted police and army, killing tens of … read more
A young woman from Mansoura, Dakahlia, is protesting being denied army enlistment by arguing that mandatory enlistment for males in Egypt should apply also to women, said her lawyer, Reda Maarouf, on the 90 Minutes program on the El Mehwar … read more
As sexual harassment remains a perpetual problem in Egypt, new grassroots campaigns targeting harassers are fighting back, literally. The latest initiative, called Tie Harassers, aims to counter sexual harassment by tying perpetrators to trees. The initiative was launched by Essam … read more
The trial of 20 Al Jazeera journalists accused of aiding or joining the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement is to resume on Monday. Twenty defendants, who prosecutors allege work for the Doha-based network, are accused “airing false new” and “aiding or joining … read more
A court in Egypt has sentenced to death 529 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. They were convicted of charges including murdering a policeman and attacking police. The group, members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, are part of a … read more
A British holidaymaker has allegedly been raped in her hotel room by a security guard at the popular Egyptian resort where she was staying. The guard had been escorting the lone woman back to a five-star hotel in Sharm-el-Sheikh when … read more
The trial of Alaa Abdel-Fattah and 24 other activists began in Cairo on Sunday. They are charged with offences related to a protest against military trials of civilians outside the Shura Council in November 2013. It was one of the … read more
Egypt’s presidential elections committee will announce the timeline of the upcoming election on Monday, Judge Hamdan Fahmy said. The committee will decide in a meeting on Saturday the regulations related to candidacy, media and civil society groups, Fahmy told a … read more