A group of people blocked a police vehicle and helped three people who had been arrested escape, a source at the Interior Ministry’s media center said Sunday evening. The group attacked the Moqattam Police Station vehicle and the officers inside … read more
The Salafi Jihadi movement called for a new vice and virtue ministry as a first step to a hardline application of Sharia. Morgan Salem, a leader of the group, said that every Muslim was obliged to promote virtue and combat … read more
An unofficial Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice announced its existence at a press conference in Cairo on Thursday. Founder Hisham El-Ashri said the committee would seek to implement Islamic Sharia law without resorting to … read more
Dozens of protesters gathered at Abdeen palace in Cairo on Friday in support of bearded policemen who remain suspended from work despite a court verdict in their favour. On 20 February, Egypt’s administrative court said the policemen, who were suspended … read more
Dozens were injured in the early hours of Saturday when fresh clashes broke out between protesters and riot police in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura. According to Ahram’s Arabic-language news website, the melee started when police forces fired tear … read more
The opening date to declare candidacy in the upcoming parliamentary elections is slated to be announced on Saturday, said High Elections Committee spokesperson Hesham Mokhtar. “[The High Elections Committee] will also announce the schedule and rules for campaigning” during Saturday’s … read more
Activists in Libya on Thursday posted photographs on Facebook allegedly portraying Egyptian Coptic-Christians detained in Libya on charges of proselytising. The activists asserted that the images would also be sent to the United Nations, the Egyptian embassy in Libya, the … read more
With the country’s second post-revolution parliamentary polls around the corner, Egyptian opposition parties are stepping up their opposition to what they see as Egypt’s “undemocratic” electoral setting, arguing that the current legal and political environment is not conducive to free … read more
President Mohamed Morsy is attending the Arab Summit to be held in the Qatari capital of Doha on 26 and 27 March, said presidential spokesperson Omar Amer in a news conference on Thursday. “The president is also invited to India … read more
Hamdeen Sabbahi and Mohamed ElBaradei of the National Salvation Front (NSF) will not meet US Secretary of State John Kerry during his visit to Egypt, said Heba Yassin of the Popular Current Party. The United States insists on painting a … read more