Date of source: Thursday, January 15, 2015
Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahīm Mahlab decreed the establishment of the High Council for Cyber-Security (HCC) on Dec. 16. The HCC reports directly to the Council of Ministers, and its official goal is to develop a strategy to counter cyber threats, supervise its implementation, and keep that...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Rāmi Iskandar, a 38-year-old Evangelical Christian, spent most of his thirties going from one court to the next, looking to get a divorce.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Ahmed Harqān, an Egyptian atheist who expressed his views on television, went to a police station in Alexandria to report that he and his wife were attacked on the street for his beliefs.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 14, 2015
President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi has issued a decree giving Prime Minister Ibrahīm Mahlab the power to ban any foreign publication offensive to religion.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 13, 2015
A delegation representing nine NGOs observed detained students taking their midterm examinations, in coordination with the Ministry of Interior.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The women in Behēra governorate, west of Cairo, cheered following the announcement of the Egyptian judiciary's ruling to cancel the annual celebration of the birth of the Jewish rabbi known as Abu Hasīra, whose tomb is in the village of Damtu in Behēra governorate.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Six months into his rule, on the first day of 2015, President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi called for a “religious revolution” in a televised speech, while addressing a crowd of largely religious clerics. The room broke into applause.
Date of source: Monday, January 12, 2015
Approximately 60 leading journalists and editors from Egypt’s mainstream media outlets demonstrated against the attacks on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, outside Cairo’s Press Syndicate Sunday.
Date of source: Sunday, January 11, 2015
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) called on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to organize a global counter-terrorism conference, emphasizing it supports the Sunday “Republican March” in Paris.
Date of source: Sunday, January 11, 2015
An Egyptian court has sentenced a student to three years in jail for announcing on Facebook that he is an atheist and for insulting Islam, his lawyer said Sunday.