The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) warned against extensive sectarian violence following the dispersal of the sit-ins supporting former president Mohamed Morsi in Cairo and Giza on 14 August in a statement on Tuesday
The organisation (...)
Security forces' failure to prevent sectarian attacks is a "shocking dereliction of duty," Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday, calling on the government to better protect Christians in Egypt.
"The backlash against Coptic Christians (...)
The general prosecution issued on Monday an arrest warrant for two police officers to investigate them for the death of 36 prisoners being transported to Abou Zaabal prison on Sunday.
The prosecution also ordered three others, including a police (...)
36 prisoners died due to suffocation during an attempt to flee a police van while en route to Abou Zaabal prison on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Interior (MOI).
MOI Spokesperson Hany Abdel Latif said the 759 prisoners, who were part of the (...)
In the meeting held on Sunday evaluating the current situation, the cabinet made a formal request to the Ministries of Investment, Telecommunication and Media and Information to examine the legality of the Al-Jazeera Mubasher Egypt channel operating (...)
Volkhard Windfuhr, chairman of the Foreign Press Association (FPA) in Egypt, criticised foreign coverage of the events and warned against the increasing risks against the lives of journalists in a Sunday statement.
The statement read: "Without (...)
The European Commission (EC) President José Manuel Barroso together with the European Council President Herman Van Rompuy released a statement on Sunday calling for a national dialogue that should include all political factions.
"We regret deeply (...)
The National Council for Motherhood and Childhood released a statement on Sunday announcing that it has presented a memo to the general prosecution demanding information about all children who were detained in light of recent events.
"Lawyers of the (...)
Interim prime minister Hazem El-Beblawi said on Saturday the government needs to get the country onto a democratic path and that sit-ins were a threat to security.
El-Bebelawi stressed the importance of reconciliation, but said there would be no (...)
A number of churches were attacked on Wednesday in governorates around the country following the forcible dispersal of sit-ins in Rabaa Al-Adaweya in Cairo and Al-Nahda Square in Giza.
Two churches in the Fayoum village of Al-Nazla were set on fire, (...)
Six people said on Tuesday that they were tortured by participants of the Rabaa Al-Adaweya sit-in, according to a statement by the Ministry of Interior.
Among those who filed a report was the father of Mustafa Abdel Ghani Mohamed, 10, who was shot (...)
Angry families tried to storm the Shubra Al-Khayma Police Station on Sunday in an attempt to regain custody of their detained children.
Belal Nabil, warden of Shubra Al-Khayma Police station, said the prosecution ordered the children to be released (...)
Interim vice-president Mohamed ElBaradei said in an interview on Al-Hayah TV channel on Saturday that the long term solution for the current crisis is achieving a national consensus.
"It is impossible to have a solution that relies on exclusion, but (...)
Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy met on Saturday with his Emirati counterpart Sheikh Abdullah Al-Nahyan to discuss the current relations between both countries.
Both ministers focused on the political, economic and social relations between the (...)
The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood filed a complaint to the Prosecutor General on Wednesday calling for the removal of children from the sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adaweya.
The council said in a statement released on Wednesday that children's (...)
Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie, his deputy Khairat El-Shater and senior Brotherhood member Rashad Bayoumi were referred to the Criminal Court on Wednesday for inciting the killing of protesters.
Tarek Al-Morsi, Freedom and (...)
The National Defence Council, lead by interim president Adly Mansour, announced they will be closely monitoring the sit-ins in Rabaa Al-Adaweya and Al-Nahda Square.
The council was deeply concerned that both sit-ins did not respect the fundamental (...)
The National Council for Women (NCW)denounced the Muslim Brotherhood's "attempts to marginalise and exclude women from the political scene", in a Sunday statement.
The council described the year during which the Brotherhood ruled as the "worst and (...)
Amnesty International called on security forces to protect protesters and avoid the use of violence in a statement released on Thursday.
"Security forces have repeatedly failed to protect protesters, bystanders and residents from attacks by armed (...)
Two army soldiers and an officer were injured in attacks on seven checkpoints in Sheikh Zuweid in Sinai on Friday.
Unknown gunmen attacked the security checkpoints in Sheikh Zuweid, including the surroundings of the Sheikh Zuweid hospital, the (...)
There can be no reconciliation amid ongoing bloodshed, the Muslim Brotherhood said following their boycott of the first meeting of the National Reconciliation and Transitional Justice committee on Wednesday.
The meeting, led by interim president (...)
Nine people were killed and 86 injured in clashes in Cairo, Giza and Qaliubiya on Monday night and Tuesday morning.
The Muslim Brotherhood released a statement on their website claiming that police officers started shooting at protesters in Rabaa (...)
The Legal Experts Committee tasked with amending the constitution decided in their first meeting on Sunday to give citizens and political groups one week, starting Monday, to offer their suggestions for the constitution.
Ali Awad Saleh, interim (...)
Several members of Tamarod have decided to leave the campaign on the grounds that its stated goal, withdrawing confidence from former president Mohamed Morsi, had been met.
"[Those who left Tamarod] believe that its role is done," said Mai Wahba, (...)
In an interview on Saturday with state television, Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi explained the state had needed to create the cabinet quickly and defended his cabinet appointments, saying that he had chosen according to their merits.
El-Beblawi (...)