CAIRO: The foreign ministry cancelled its Wednesday meeting with the EU due to what it deemed the negative environment resulting from European Parliament (EP) resolution criticizing Egypt's human rights record.
Meanwhile, more than 30 Egyptian (...)
CAIRO: Republican and Democratic representatives from the United States Congress have issued a bipartisan letter to the Egyptian government, calling for the immediate release of student blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Soliman Amer who is currently (...)
CAIRO: Two organizations are calling on the Minister of Justice Mamdouh Marei to arbitrate in the case of Abdel Kareem Nabil Soliman Amer, the blogger who has been under arrest since November on charges of defaming the president.
Reporters (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court has denied Saturday an Egyptian citizen of the Bahai faith the right to a birth certificate for his daughter, arguing that "the national government has the right not to acknowledge the Bahai faith in (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian blogger Rami Siyam, also known as Ayoub, was released from jail Thursday following his arrest on Nov. 19 with three other bloggers.Although he was due to be released immediately after his arrest, he was kept in detention by state (...)
CAIRO: Members of the country's blogging community have said there is a marked increase in the arrests and detainment of online writers expressing their views on religion and society.
Bloggers are being increasingly targeted by state authorities (...)