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...
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Conversion in Egypt is a complicated and thorny issue.
Date of source: Sunday, November 8, 2015
Human rights activists strongly condemned an interior ministry report that accused 17 men, allegedly belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, for the excessive rain floods.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Egyptian security forces arrested two people on Wednesday on charges of creating and administrating more than 20 anti-government Facebook pages.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Minister of Interior Majdi `Abd al-Ghaffār met a group of journalists in his office on Monday to discuss police abuse and plans to confront terrorism.
Date of source: Thursday, December 24, 2015
The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) has said that it registered 340 cases of enforced disappearance in Egypt in the space of just two months, with a daily average of three cases, Almesryoon.com reported.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 23, 2015
With the approach of the Christmas celebrations, Egyptian churches of different denominations informed the ministry of the interior of the scheduled masses and festivities for security measures.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 22, 2015
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) is preparing a list with the names of forced disappearance victims that so far include 101 victims reportedly arrested by security forces.
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 2015
When Al-Nadīm Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence says that 13 people died in places of detention in November, including nine as a result of torture, three as a result of medical negligence and one suicide case, we should be alerted.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 1, 2015
The American media is castigating Egypt for the decision of Egypt’s Prosecutor General to file criminal charges against eyewitnesses in the police killing of activist Shaīmāʾ al-Sabbāgh. One newspaper said that the method that the General Prosecutor is using to investigate the killing of the...