CAIRO: Newly appointed Minister of Interior Mohammad Ibrahim pledged to never use violence against protesters like what happened during clashes between Tahrir protesters and security forces in Mohammad Mahmoud St. This was his first statement to (...)
CAIRO: Youm7 conducted an opinion poll on Monday December 6 about the runoff of the first phase of the parliamentary elections.
The website made a poll for its readers, asking if the runoff could be confronted by possible problems. The results (...)
CAIRO: Dozens of Egyptians staged a march with symbolic coffins from Mostafa Mahmoud Mosque in Mohandeseen, Giza, heading to Tahrir Square for the million-man-demonstration protesting against Egypt's ruling military council on Friday December (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Revolution Union decided to form a revolutionary presidential council consisting of nine figures. It also plans to form a presidential Shura Council including all heads of the revolutionary coalitions.
There will also be (...)
CAIRO: In Friday's million-man “last chance” demonstration, some protesters organized a public referendum in Tahrir Square to form a civil presidential council chaired by Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Mohamed el-Baradei and Hossam Essa.
The youth (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian April 6 Youth Movement formed groups to secure Tahrir Square in preparation of the million-man demonstration entitled Friday of Only Chance.
The movement assured they will never attend any meetings with the military council or (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian presidential candidate Hazem Abu Ismail announced to the protesters in Tahrir Square they will hear important news today November 24.
He noted there is no difference between chairman of Egypt's ruling military council Hussein (...)
CAIRO: As Egyptians flock en masse to Tahrir Sqaure this morning to participate in a million-man demonstration dubbed “The Salvation of Egypt,” violent and bloody clashes on Mohamed Mahmoud Street persist for the fourth consecutive (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Zenhoum Mortuary today issued a report regarding the death of Egyptian protestor Ahmed Mahmoud Mohammad who perished during clashes yesterday with Egyptian security forces in Tahrir Square.
Mohammad was injured in the clashes (...)
CAIRO: Tahrir Square turned into a battleield when the clashes were renewed for the second consecutive day between Egyptian protesters and security forces on Sunday November 20.
The forces threw tear gas bombs onto the protesters and opened fire (...)
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: The funeral of the Egyptian who was killed in the clashes between security force and protesters in Alexandria will start at the Commander Ibrahim Mosque in Alexandia.
The martyr, Bahaa el-Din Sanusi's, funeral began after the (...)
CAIRO: Thousands of Egyptians are moving to Tahrir Square in Cairo to participate on Friday the November 18 demonstration amid the security absence, especially from Islamic trends.
The million-man-demonstration, lead by Islamists, called upon (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Presidential Candidate and former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed el-Baradei denounced Israeli accusations that he was an Iranian agent, describing them as baseless and too substandard for (...)
CAIRO: Youm7 conducted an opinion poll on international calls for releasing Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. The poll asked the reader whether Egypt's ruling military council could respond to the international calls for releasing Abdel (...)
CAIRO: Youm7 conducted an opinion poll about the dispute between political parties and Deputy Prime Minister Ali el-Selmy over supraconstitutional principles.
Selmy drafted a document of supra-constitutional principles in which Article 9 granted (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian High Committee for Organ Transplantation will send Egyptian Minister of Health Amr Hilmi a proposal to form a fact-finding committee, which would be charged with investigation into the illicit organ transplantation in North (...)
CAIRO: Dozens of lawyers protested the Judge's Club chairman Ahmed el-Zand outside the Bar Association headquarters calling to purify the judiciary.
The protesting lawyers called for monitoring the Bar Association elections after judge declined (...)
CAIRO: A roll was found inside the intestine of Essam Ali Atta, a young man who was supposedly tortured to death last night, during his autopsy.
According to one of the forensic doctors who participated in Atta's autopsy, the roll – which was not (...)
CAIRO: A number of Egyptian journalists protested when Egyptian Minister of Information Osama Heikal cast his vote in Wednesday's press syndicate elections.
Protestors shouted at Heikal, "Where is the Press? Here is the falsity," "The people want (...)
CAIRO: Youm7's Editor-in-Chief Khaled Salah expressed his sympathy for broadcaster Yousri Fouda who suspended his TV program Akher Kalam on Friday October 21 as an objection against the deterioration of freedom of press.
During a phone call to TV (...)
CAIRO: Youm7 conducted an opinion poll of readers regarding the dispute between Egyptian Judges and lawyers about the bill of Judiciary Authority.
71.87 percent of Youm7 readers see the wave of tensions and dispute between the lawyers and judges (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Administrative Judicial Court of the State Council issued a verdict Thursday stopping the elections of Press Syndicate, which were scheduled for Friday.
Khaled Atfy, a candidate for press syndicate membership, filed a suit to stop (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's military ruler, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, has approved financial and administrative support to political parties during upcoming parliamentary election, Youm7 learned today.
The military will bear the cost of publicizing (...)
CAIRO: Any person who uses force or threats to persuade a voter to cast or not cast his or her vote in an election or referendum could face up to 100,000 EGP in fines (U.S. $16,900) and up to five years in prison, Egypt's ruling military council (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's ruling military council today canceled a controversial article in the country's new parliamentary election law, according to state news agency MENA.
Article 5 states that any candidate who wishes to run in parliamentary elections (...)