El Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture and the Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) held a press conference on the International day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26 June, presenting (...)
The new government sworn in on Tuesday will be expected to be at their desks by 7am, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb said at a press conference following the cabinet's first meeting.
The first cabinet meeting took place, headed by President Abdel (...)
Political coalitions created for the 2014 presidential elections in May, are currently in the process of regrouping in preparation for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Tayar Al-Estiqlal (Independent Current) coalition, formed on Sunday, to (...)
Two board members of the Doctors' Syndicate attempted to visit hunger striking detainee Mohamed Soltan on Sunday, according to a statement by the doctors.
Amr El Shora and Mohamed Shafiq volunteered to visit Soltan to check on his health condition. (...)
Labour activist and lawyer Mahienour El-Massry said in her second letter from imprisonment, released Tuesday by her lawyer, that she refuses any kind of amnesty.
"The regime is the one who should ask for amnesty from the people," read the letter. "I (...)
Former head of Supreme State Security Court Amr Abdel Razek said in a Wednesday statement that a coalition led by former chairman of the Constituent Assembly Amr Moussa would be "needed to build a new Egypt".
Moussa's office had released a statement (...)
The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR) expressed its concern in a statement on Monday, about the deteriorating health condition of Al Jazeera correspondent Abdullah Elshamy and fixer Mohamed Soltan currently in detention.
The organisation (...)
Newly-sworn in President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said he would not allow the creation of a "parallel leadership" that would challenge the state's prestige and jurisdiction, during his speech at the celebration of his inauguration in Qubba Palace on (...)
Police forces secured the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) premises for the inauguration of now President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Sunday.
Security forces closed part of Maadi corniche leading to the SCC during the morning, according state-run news (...)
A video with the logo of the militant group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis released Saturday appears to illustrate the militant operation that took place in October outside the Military Intelligence building in Ismailia.
The 15-minute long clip shows footage (...)
Anti harassment initiative Shoft Taharosh (I Saw Harassment), praised in a statement on Friday interim President Adly Mansour's decision to amend sections of Article 58 in the penal law, to include the term "sexual harassment".
The group (...)
A message from Mahienour El-Massry, written on 22 May 2014 from her detention cell in Damanhour Prison, started to circulate on social media on Friday. The letter was originally posted by one of her lawyers.
In her message, El-Massry described the (...)
The Cairo Criminal Court, which convened in the institute of Non Commissioned Police Officers at Tora, postponed to next Thursday the hearing for the detention renewal of Al Jazeera Journalist Abdullah Elshamy, who has been on hunger strike for more (...)
Attorney General of Eastern Alexandria, Mohamed Salah, ordered Tuesday the release of Safwan Mohamed on bail without pressing charges against him. The Alexandrian activist was arrested last Sunday at a check point outside the Two Saints (...)
Human rights group Freedom for the Brave organised a protest on Sunday calling for the release of detained Al Jazeera journalist, Abdullah Elshamy, and fixer Mohamed Sultan.
The protest occurred outside the Press Syndicate in Cairo in support of the (...)
Gehad Khalid, wife of detained Al Jazeera journalist Abdullah Elshamy, accused on Monday the National Council of Human Rights (NCHR) of not doing their job, during a press conference calling for the release of Elshamy and fixer Mohamed Soltan, who (...)
The interim government has been successful in implementing the post-30 June roadmap, following the conclusion of both January's constitutional referendum and the recent presidential elections, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb declared in a Saturday (...)
The Presidential Elections Commission (PEC) announced Friday that it has received the appeals presented by presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahy against the count in a number of polling stations.
Head of the commission Abdel Aziz Salman mentioned (...)
The Presidential Elections Commission's (PEC) late Tuesday decision to extend voting by an extra day has stirred controversy among an array of political groups.
The PEC premised its decision on its concern for " voters' interest and to give them a (...)
The National Council of Human Rights (NCHR) released a statement on Tuesday morning reporting low voter turnout on the second day of the presidential elections, despite what it described as "facilitation offered" for citizens to cast their (...)
A tally of 41,163 Egyptians have been arrested from 3 July 2013 to 15 May 2014 over political, terrorist, sectarian strife, protesting and military charges, according to a count the independent online group called Wiki Thawra released on (...)
All state institutions are without bias toward either presidential candidate, interim President Adly Mansour stressed Sunday, during an address to the nation calling on Egypt's voters to participate in the elections.
Following he called the success (...)
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Presidential candidates Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Hamdeen Sabahy officially terminated their campaigns on Friday, the last day before the two days pre-elections silence, stipulated by Article 18 of (...)
Results of the expatriate vote showed Former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi winning with a huge margin of 94.5% over 5.5% for his Nasserist opponent Hamdeen Sabahy, the Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) announced in a press conference on (...)
Clashes took place between security forces and Students Against the Coup (SAC) at Cairo University on Tuesday, leaving one senior student from the Faculty of Engineering dead.
The deceased, Islam Ghanem, had been suffering from an injured eye from (...)