Nahda Square dispersed, arrests of senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders reported Nahda Square has been cleared of Morsi supporters after police forces moved to disperse the sit-in. Dozens of Morsi supporters are said to have been arrested in possession of illegal … read more
Egyptian security forces finished breaking up the smaller of two Cairo protest camps set up by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi, state TV reported on Wednesday, after the police moved in the early hours against the sit-ins. A Reuters … read more
Fifty demonstrators were killed during the security operation to clear out the Muslim Brotherhood’s sit-ins at Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adaweya and Nahda Squares, the Brotherhood’s official website reported. One police officer and one conscript were killed and nine others were injured … read more
Egypt’s judiciary extended ousted president Mohamed Morsi’s detention Monday as his supporters marched through Cairo in defiance of the expiry of a government ultimatum to dismantle their huge protest camps. The judiciary said it was extending Morsi’s detention for a … read more
Facebook on Monday blocked several pages belonging to movements that support jihadi operations in Sinai. The blocked pages include the official pages of Sheikh Mohamed al-Zawahiri, the Jihadi current in Sharqia, the Nusrah Front for the People of Egypt, and … read more
Egypt’s interim leaders are still debating how to end protests by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported on Tuesday, signalling no imminent police crackdown on the sit-ins. After a National Security Council meeting late on … read more
Unknown assailants attacked a police station, a border checkpoint and a VIP cafeteria with local-made explosive devices in Sinai’s Arish early on Tuesday, causing no casualties, a technical team belonging to the army said. Earlier reports had initially said that … read more
Egypt’s ministry of petroleum is currently facing difficulties trying to finance needed fuel imports such as diesel and the low-quality mazut –required to operate power stations – Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported on Monday, citing an anonymous official in the … read more
Pro-Morsi protesters ended a 2-hour sit-in outside the Egyptian High Court on Ramsis Street on Monday afternoon. The brief sit-in followed a march to the court from Fatah mosque in downtown Cairo. Protesters initially did not know where the march … read more
Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that two journalists, Mohamed Momtaz and Aya Hassan, were held for several hours and beaten by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi while covering a march organized by the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo … read more