Date of source: Wednesday, January 27, 2016
The unprecedented inclusion of nine people with disabilities in the Egyptian parliament raises questions as to whether it will bring about legal advantages for such persons in Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, February 5, 2016
"Managing a Facebook page without a license. That was the accusation they used to detain me,” the Egyptian caricaturist Islām Gawīsh told AL Montor in an interview from the Cairo International Book Fair Feb. 2, a few hours after his release. Gawīsh was at the fair to launch volume 2 of “Al-Waraqa...
Date of source: Saturday, February 6, 2016
Cairo Criminal Court postponed Saturday the trial of 739 defendants, including the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide, to March 26 in a case dubbed as "Rab`a al-`Adaweyya dispersal."
Date of source: Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The crackdown on freedom of speech and expression continues in Egypt. This last weekend an Egyptian-German academic was denied entry and a social and political cartoonist was arrested and detained for 24 hours.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Egypt's President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi said on Monday that he does not mind criticism, stressing that it is his job to placate disgruntled youths, a day after a cartoonist was arrested for what critics suggest was retaliation for caricatures mocking the former army chief.
Date of source: Saturday, November 14, 2015
The Egyptian presidency condemned "with the harshest words" Friday's "terrorist" incidents in several locations in Paris, according to a Friday statement.
Date of source: Thursday, November 12, 2015
Close to a year after Seymour Hersh advised Egyptian investigative journalist Hūssām Bahgat to "keep on going" and to publish stories without fear of reprisal, Bahgat was summoned by military intelligence and faced the all-too-familiar charge of "publishing false news that harms national interests...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 10, 2015
The Egyptian military on Tuesday released the journalist Hūsām Bahgat, hours beore planned demonstrations in Cairo, London and other cities to call for his freedom.
Date of source: Sunday, November 8, 2015
Egyptian military intelligence on Sunday detained an investigative journalist who is also the founder of Egypt's premier human rights group on charges of publishing false news, raising alarms about attempts to suppress domestic dissent as the government grapples with questions about the crash of a...
Date of source: Sunday, November 8, 2015
To start with, it is beyond doubt that the Egyptian government has its flaws in managing the economy, its overflowing and corrupt bureaucracy, and its lack of respect for human rights. But things have come to a point where the western media needs to be put in its proper place.