Egypt’s Prime Minister Essam Sharaf vowed on Saturday to press a fight against corruption, responding to public pressure to speed up investigations into alleged graft by allies of ousted President Hosni Mubarak. He also defended a draft law banning strikes, … read more
An Egyptian draft law that imposes prison sentences for some strike action violates international laws on freedom of assembly and must be scrapped, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday. Last week, Egypt’s military-backed government approved the draft law, which is … read more
Minister of Interior Mansour al-Essawy approved the exclusion of 23 high-ranking officials of the defunct State Security Investigative Services (SSIS) from service in the Ministry of Interior, and temporarily transferred 66 of the agency’s former leaders to security directorates and … read more
Egyptian economic experts expect the Egyptian pound to rebound this week from an anticipated strong performance of the stock market. The Egyptian currency, which has lost nearly 4 percent of its value against the American dollar and the single European … read more
A citizen-volunteer in the tattered plain clothes of the lower middle class is standing in the middle of a busy Alexandria intersection waving through traffic. Waiting at the cross street is a uniformed cop on a motorcycle. Welcome to the … read more
Thousands of people gathered here Friday in the square that was the heart of Egypt’s uprising to protest a proposed new law that would ban protests — and to voice fears that their revolution may not have been much of … read more
Some day soon, when pro-democracy campaigners have their cellphones confiscated by police, they’ll be able to hit the “panic button” — a special app that will both wipe out the phone’s address book and emit emergency alerts to other activists. … read more
Women arrested by Egyptian military personnel during protests at Cairo’s Tahrir Square were subjected to “virginity tests” and other forms of humiliation, claims an Amnesty International report. Eighteen demonstrators were detained by army officers on March 9 at the end … read more
Egypt Air has removed Israel from its route map, even though its subsidiary, Air Sinai, flies to its capital, Tel Aviv, four times a week. Customers seeking flights to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion National Airport will have a hard time … read more
THOUSANDS OF protesters are expected in Cairo’s Tahrir Square today to protest against a decree banning protests, demonstrations and strikes that disrupt public institutions and companies and harm the economy. The new law, adopted by the government still has to … read more