Date of source: Sunday, January 1, 2017
Muḥammad Fā’iq, President of the National Human Rights Council, said that the Egyptian population is the only party capable of recruiting President ʿ Abd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī to serve a second presidential term, pointing out that the president wished to serve only term, but the people...
Date of source: Saturday, January 14, 2017
Diplomats described the European Union's statement that " the Egyptian judiciary’s freezing of the human rights organizations' fund stands against the work of civil society" as an insult to the Egyptian authority and against the international rules and laws. The Diplomats claim that there are...
Date of source: Sunday, August 20, 2017
The New York Times Magazine published a detailed report about the torture and murder of ItalianPhD student Giulio Regeni who focused in his study on Egyptian street vendors’ union, “hoping to assess their union’s potential to drive political and social change.” He disappeared on the 25th of January...
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2012
A military court decided to adjourn the cases of virginity tests and Maspero incidents to the February 5-6 sessions.
Plaintiff Samīrah Ibrāhīm attended a court session on Sunday (January 29) with her lawyers in the case in which drafted physician Ahmad ‘Ādil al-Mūjī is standing trial over...
Date of source: Sunday, January 29, 2012
Activist Michael Nabīl, who was pardoned on the first anniversary of the January 25, 2012 Revolution, said that he was not subjected to any torture inside his prison but watched many torture cases inside military jails and al-Marg prison, where he was serving a three-year term for insulting the...
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
A large number of activists and representatives of political movements on Thursday (January 19), started a march demanding the release of blogger Michael Nabīl, chanting slogans rejecting that civilians be brought before military courts.
Nabīl's father, who participated in the march that started...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 27, 2016
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) expressed its deep condemnation of the attack on a large number of lawyers late last night by the security forces in the Dokki Police Station. EOHR asserted that this was contrary to the law and the constitution.
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2016
The Coptic Hospital witnessed a new attack on doctors, which was carried out by a woman who assaulted a doctor named Nihāl Majdī. The hospital administration informed the police, which in turn filed a report of the attack and arrested the perpetrator. The perpetrator was referred to Al-Azbakiyyah...
Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2016
Columnist Ayman al-Mahdi wrote an article published by Misr al-Arabiyya on the demonstrations called for by several opposition and political movements in protest of the maritime demarcation agreement between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. This demarcation agreement would cede the Islands of Tīran and...
Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2016
Prominent Writer and Novelist Muḥammad Salmāwī said that Egypt hasn’t seen a president that pays a great deal of attention to the intellectuals as much as President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī. Salmāwī added that the latter has always been keen on meeting with Egypt’s intellectuals and that al-Sīsī...