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President al-Sisi defended the creation of a wide buffer zone between Gaza and Egypt. In recent weeks, Egypt is carrying out digging work in the area that Palestinians believe is intended to flood the last remaining tunnels between Gaza and the Sinai. Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas accused Egypt of...
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Excerpts: "A misspelling of her name has kept Salwa Mehrez locked up until today. Mehrez, who studied engineering, was arrested in June 2014 among others who were protesting against the protest law. She was tried and convicted for violating the same draconian law she was protesting against."
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President al-Sisi said that a worsening terrorist threat has led to "ferocious war" in his country and some countries "sliding into a vicious cycle of failure."
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Egyptian security forces on Friday killed nine militants who took part in a bomb attack, that had been claimed by the Islamic State Group, at the Italian consulate in Cairo in July, the Interior Ministry said. The attack in July resulted in the death of one person.
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Wednesday’s pardon of 100 prisoners by Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi is drawing mixed reactions from around the world, even as it focuses renewed attention on the controversial anti-terrorism laws under which some of the released prisoners had been held. The human rights group Amnesty...
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 4, 2015
Egypt's Ministry of Interior stated that they had cracked down on two terrorist cells of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Monufia Governorate north of Cairo.
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 3, 2015
Over the past two days, Egypt's primary courts throughout the country opened their doors for thousands of candidates applying for the upcoming parliamentary elections to the House of Representatives. Egypt's Supreme Elections Committee SEC confirmed that the candidates' selection will be fair and...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 16, 2015
The Political Parties Affairs Committee (PPAC) has not yet taken a decision regarding the controversial request submitted by the No-To- Religious-Parties Campaign, which many believe is backed by Egypt's government attempting to exclude political parties based on religious backgrounds from the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 15, 2015
In a preliminary verdict, an Egyptian Court in the Central of Cairo has issued the death penalty of eight convicts for being members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood Organization, as well as life sentences for 77 further defendants. Thispreliminary Verdicts can be appealed in accordance to Egyptian...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 15, 2015
The Egyptian Center for Human Rights lauded the efforts of Egypt's President Al-Sisi who had accepted on Saturday the resignation of the cabinet of Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab after it was rocked by a corruption scandal, highlighting that Egypt needs ministers who are in touch with ordinary...