The military police assaulted volunteer doctors working at the field hospital in Tahrir Square, doctors have said. The doctors say the military told them it was helping the wounded.
“The military police burnt our first aid kits,” said Dr. Mona Mina (...)
Members of the "Engineers against Sequestration" group on Wednesday filed a lawsuit, requesting the annulment of Engineers Syndicate elections results for purported excesses committed by Muslim Brotherhood candidates.
Sources said the results were (...)
Engineers Syndicate elections are to commence for the first time in 17 years on Friday, for choosing the president, members of the governing board and branch executives. Thirty-one candidates are running for president and 209 for board seats.
The (...)
Egyptian educational groups and unions called for mass protests next Saturday demanding the dismissal of Minister of Education Ahmed Gamal Eddin Moussa and purging the educational system of corrupt figures.
The teachers urged political movements and (...)
An Egyptian lawyer on Thursday filed a complaint with Attorney General Abdel Maguid Mahmoud which accused the Minister of Information and a female state television presenter of inciting thugs to attack a peaceful Coptic protest Sunday evening. The (...)
Fifty-two education movements and associations announced Friday they would participate in a "teacher's demonstration" scheduled for next Wednesday, 10 September in front of the cabinet in Garden City.
At the protest, teachers plan to demand the (...)
Egyptian human rights activists on Wednesday demanded that trials of police and those accused of corruption be broadcast on state television.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Judicial Council issued a decision opening trials to the public and allowing them (...)
At a symposium held by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies on Sunday, secular groups argued with the Muslim Brotherhood as to whether Egypt's new constitution should be written before the upcoming parliamentary elections.
“Writing the (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood would apply Islamic sharia if it came to power, said leading Brotherhood figure Sobhi Saleh, adding that sharia protects non-Muslim citizens.
“Terms like civil or secular state are misleading,” he said. “Islamic sharia is the (...)
Mohamed Fayeq, vice president of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), announced the formation of a national council to help the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces implement the demands of the revolution.
The new council includes 150 (...)
Activists and legal experts criticized on Sunday the favoritism being shown towards Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, the sons of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, who are in custody in the Tora prison complex pending investigation. The activists demanded that (...)
Around 500 tourist agents from the cities of Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada on Sunday staged a protest before the cabinet building to decry their dismissal by foreign employers, who have replaced them with non-Egyptian workers.
The demonstrators (...)
A leading figure in the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said on Monday that the Egyptian authorities have "promised to open the Rafah crossing and improve procedures for crossing."
Mahmoud Al-Zahar also said the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (...)