The cities of Egypt’s Suez Canal – Suez, Port Said and Ismailia – continued to witness protests on Tuesday against a government-declared state of emergency featuring a daily 9pm-to-6am curfew. On Sunday night, President Mohamed Morsi announced a state of … read more
A reporter from Al-Ahram’s Arabic-language news website was verbally and physically assaulted in Cairo on Tuesday by Central Security Forces (CSF) in the vicinity of Qasr El-Nil Bridge, which has been the site of recurrent clashes over the past few … read more
A cruise ferry The King of the Nile heading to Aswan from Luxor carrying 120 mostly Egyptian passengers sank in the Nile Tuesday evening, in the Aakab area, 5 kilometers from Aswan after it hit some rocks resulting in a … read more
President Mohamed Morsy met on Tuesday afternoon with the interior minister and other ministry leaders, giving instructions to protect peaceful protesters and act with restraint. As protests continued in Cairo and several other governorates, presidential spokesperson Yasser Ali said Morsy … read more
The Islamist party of the Jihad Organization and Jama’a al-Islamiya has said the ways of dealing with banditry specified in the Quran must be applied to Black Bloc members, which means they must be killed. “God orders us to kill, … read more
The death toll in recent clashes in Egypt’s riot-stricken Port Said governorate has risen to 42, while the total number of injured people has exceeded 1,000, medics said late Monday. Official sources said a few hours ago that the death … read more
An unpredictable new element has entered Egypt’s wave of political unrest: a mysterious group of masked young men called the Black Bloc who present themselves as the defenders of protesters opposed to the Islamist president’s rule. They boast that they’re … read more
SUEZ: Around 3,000 protesters in Suez organized on Monday night a protest to march from al-Arba’een Square to al-Geish Street to demand ending the 30-day curfew President Mohamed Morsi has imposed on three Suez Canal cities. Morsi on Sunday declared … read more
Egyptian protesters, after being attacked by police, captured a top officer and two police armored carriers, taking the vehicles to Tahrir Square where thousands of protesters in the iconic square celebrated as the vehicles were destroyed and set ablaze. In … read more
Amnesty International on Monday condemned the police’s use of deadly force against demonstrators in Egypt, where nearly 50 have been killed in clashes. “Eyewitness accounts collected by Amnesty International in Egypt point to the unnecessary use of lethal force by … read more