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Amīra Jirjis Khalīl Sīfīn, A 17-year-old Egyptian girl, has caused a new sectarian crisis in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, which caused the injury of dozens of individuals, and the arrest of 11 others. Parliament also issued an urgent statement  directed at Egyptian Prime Minister Sharīf...
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...
On the other hand, a number of Azhar scholars and leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church vehemently rejected images showing U.S. soldiers urinating over the dead bodies of the Afghan Taliban Movement fighters, describing the act as "ugly, barbaric and violating respect for humans". Muhammad Ra'fat '...
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.
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...
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...
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...
MP Muḥammad Anwar as-Sādāt, head of the Human Rights Committee in the House of Representatives, said that Egypt is living on foreign funding, aid, loans and foreign financing.
In a featured story on its website, Al-Misrīyūn wrote a profile about the former Egyptian Diplomat and Ambassador to Venezuela Yaḥia Nijm. Nijm was billed by activists and politicians as the "man of principles" as he stood against the constitutional declaration issued by the deposed president...
Jamāl Fahmī, a member of the National Council for Human Rights, said that the Egyptian constitution contains texts and articles recognizing freedom of belief, thought and expression. "But they remained merely texts."

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