A Palestinian-American youth, Orwa Hammad, was shot dead on Friday by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the West Bank, the second fatality in the occupied territory in eight days.
Hammad, 14, was shot in the West Bank town of Silwad, northeast of (...)
Thirteen rights groups released a joint statement Wednesday condemning what they call "a highly alarming pattern of escalating abuses against lawyers".
Their statement added that abuses against lawyers also "severely violate defendants' rights to (...)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Monday ongoing violence in Yemen shortly after an alleged Sunni suicide bomber killed 47 people at a Shiite Houthi protest on 9 October.
In a ministry statement released Monday, Egyptian authorities (...)
International rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged donors to Sunday's Gaza Reconstruction Conference to press for an end to the seven-year Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
HRW called the blockade "collective punishment" on (...)
Gunmen shot and killed policeman Ahmed Farooq Zeidan during a security raid aimed at combating arms smugglers in Sohag on Tuesday.
The policeman, from the Dar El-Salaam police station, was patrolling the mountainous area when two men on a motorcycle (...)
Amnesty International released a statement Sunday warning of Mahmoud "Shawkan" Abu Zied's ongoing detention as well as his upcoming interrogation scheduled for 2 October, calling him a prisoner of conscience detained "solely for his journalistic (...)
The prosecutor general ordered the release Saturday of 45 students for Eid Al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
A statement released Saturday said: "In the occasion of Eid Al Fitr, the prosecutor general has (...)
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Arab regional intervention in the wake of the latest clashes to occur in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Commenting at a Wednesday press conference, Ki-Moon encouraged Egyptian (...)
Amnesty International (AI), the global human rights watchdog, announced Thursday that widespread arrests, deaths in detention, "harrowing" accounts of torture and forced disappearances signal a "catastrophic decline" in human rights during the year (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood accused government forces Tuesday of "barbaric raids" that ended in the arrest of various leaders, claiming that the arrests were made to "push things to the point of outright conflict and violent confrontation".
The arrests, (...)
United Nations (UN) human rights experts condemned Monday the recent confirmation of 183 death sentences related to August violence in Minya, calling the sentences "a staggering violation of international human rights".
The group of experts also (...)
International rights network IFEX called 23 June's Al-Jazeera verdict an "appalling attack on press freedom" and an "implicit threat to all media working in Egypt" in a letter sent to President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Monday.
The letter, signed by (...)
Unidentified gunmen stopped a bus transporting police officers and shot four of them dead Saturday night in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, bringing the day's death toll to six after an early morning attack targeting a police officer killed two (...)
The Ministry of Interior announced Friday evening that 51 alleged Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested during the latest round of post-Friday prayer protests.
The arrests occurred in Cairo, Giza, Fayoum, Al-Baheira, Beni Suef, Minya and Qena (...)
Egypt and Ethiopia agreed Thursday to form a joint committee within three months to streamline discussions on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the countries' Foreign Ministers announced in a joint statement.
Egyptian Foreign Minister (...)
Local and international rights groups were quick to condemn Monday's "politically orchestrated" Al-Jazeera trial, calling the verdict "disturbing sign for the future of the Egyptian press" and demanding the immediate release of the sentenced (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood responded Sunday to a Minya court's issuing of death sentences to 183 alleged Muslim Brotherhood members, calling the trial "a horrid, heinous crime unprecedented in history".
In a statement released Sunday, the Brotherhood (...)
Nazra for Feminist Studies condemned Sunday the arrest of nine women's rights activists during a march against the Protest Law in Heliopolis, calling the arrests and charges levied against the nine women "directly related to their legitimate (...)
Various rights groups condemned Saturday a Minya judge's sentencing of 183 alleged Muslim Brotherhood members to death sentences, calling the trial a "travesty of justice" and a "bid to crush dissent".
"In recent months, Egyptian courts appear to (...)
Media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a statement Wednesday welcoming the release of two detained journalists, encouraging President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to free 14 remaining detained journalists.
Abdallah Elshamy of (...)
A lawsuit to halt a Ministry of Interior (MOI) effort to acquire software to monitor social media has been filed by a coalition of rights groups and concerned citizens. A statement released Thursday by the Association for Freedom of Thought and (...)
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry warned its Israeli counterparts Thursday against ongoing military operations in the occupied Palestinian territories, citing concerns over the "repercussions of continuing Israeli military operations".
The operations (...)
The Institute for Economics and Peace released Wednesday its 2014 Global Peace Index (GPI) in which Egypt ranked 143 out of 162, falling over 30 places and marking the second biggest loss in peace of any country in the world.
The GPI "gauges global (...)
Thirteen rights groups condemned Monday the seizure of the 72nd issue of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information's (ANHRI) newsletter WASLA as well as the arrest of an employee at the publishing house that produces the four year-old (...)
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) released a lengthy report on living conditions and health care in Egyptian prisons Tuesday which found that "living and health conditions in prisons are not in line with the minimum components of (...)