CAIRO: The final day of the proceedings of the Muslim Brotherhood military trial attracted a large crowd of the group's supporters, journalists and local and international human rights activists who wanted to observe the proceedings or draw media (...)
CAIRO: After the forcible shut down of two human rights organizations this year, rights activists say they are concerned by "official leaks and other indications that the People's Assembly will this winter consider changes to the laws governing (...)
CAIRO: Twenty eight years after the Camp David Accords ended hostilities between Egypt and Israel, there are few issues that inspire more rumors, or get Egyptian intellectuals as heated, as "normalization with the Jewish State. Despite three decades (...)
ABU MINQAR: Residents of the tiny desert oasis of Abu Minqar call it "the farthest place from Egypt.
It is a remote and quiet place on the edge of the Great Sand Sea, far from the noise, pollution and crowds of Egypt's major cities and the high (...)
CAIRO: One year after the country's largest industrial site, Ghazl El Mahalla, was brought to a stand-still by one of the biggest strikes in decades, Mahmoud El Gebali, chairman of the Mahalla Company for Spinning and Weaving, has been removed from (...)
CAIRO: For the last five days, members of the Muslim Brotherhood detained in Borg El Arab prison have been on a limited hunger strike to protest what they say is mistreatment by prison wardens.
Rights activists say this is a growing trend inside (...)
CAIRO: Joe Stork is the Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, and former editor-in-chief and founder of the Middle East Research and Information Project.
He was in Cairo last week for the release of a (...)
CAIRO: Human Rights Watch and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights called on the government to allow Egyptian citizens to list their actual religion on national ID cards and other necessary official documents in a joint report released on (...)
CAIRO: This year's Edward Said memorial lecture at the American University in Cairo was delivered by Dr Cornel West: a philosopher, activist, cultural icon, occasional film actor and professor of religion and African American studies at Princeton (...)
CAIRO: Ramsey Clark, the former attorney general of the United States, is visiting Cairo this week to denounce the military trial of Khayrat El Shater and 39 other leaders of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
In a wide reaching speech delivered at (...)
CAIRO: The state prosecutor on Wednesday postponed indefinitely the trial of eight men charged in connection with a gang murder on World Refugee Day just outside the American University in Cairo (AUC) campus this past July.
Prosecutors changed (...)
CAIRO: Members of the Kefaya Movement for Change demonstrated on the steps of the Press Syndicate on Sunday afternoon against the annual conference of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), which Kefaya accuses of corruption and human rights (...)
CAIRO: Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement calling on Egypt to stop sending Sudanese refugees back to Sudan against their will.
Authorities forcibly repatriated five Sudanese citizens detained by Israel in August after crossing the (...)
CAIRO: Last week Gamil Fayed became the newest addition to the Egyptian diplomatic corps when he presented his credentials to Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, in a run-of-the-mill ceremony in Harare, the capital.
In his new role, Fayed (...)
CAIRO: Two journalists have filed a series of complaints against both campus security at Ain Shams University and its president, Ahmed Zaki Badr, and say that guards obstructed them from reporting on student demonstrations last week, blocking one (...)
CAIRO: State security forces arrested 13 students at Ain Shams University affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) on Wednesday after violent clashes between student groups and uniformed and plainclothes security forces during a protest against (...)
CAIRO: More than four months after the annual World Refugee Day at the American University in Cairo was disrupted by gang violence that left one man dead outside the university premises, the state prosecutor has agreed to bring the case to trial on (...)
CAIRO: A string of international labor and human rights groups have come out in support of Kamal Abbas - the director of the shuttered Center for Trade Union and Worker Services (CTUWS) - condemning a recent court decision which sentenced him and a (...)
CAIRO: Lawyer and human rights activist Gamila Sadek, a representative of the Syrian Bar Association and the Paris-based Arab Committee for Human Rights, like several would-be observers before her, has recently been barred from attending the trial (...)
CAIRO: The military trial of Muslim Brotherhood leader Khayrat El Shater and 39 others continues today, as the latest in a string of foreign human rights lawyers attempts to observe the proceedings, which have so far been closed to both media and (...)
CAIRO: Life in the delta town of Mahalla was disrupted last week by a boisterous strike at the mammoth Ghazl El Mahalla industrial complex, where 27,000 workers walked off the job and took up residence with their families in a tent city inside the (...)
CAIRO: Kamal Abbas, the director of the Center for Trade Union and Worker Services (CTUWS), a high-profile labor rights group shut down by the authorities last winter, was sentenced to one year in prison for defamation.
The case was filed against (...)
MAHALLA EL KOBRA: The Ghazl El Mahalla workers' movement ended its week-long strike early on Saturday morning after negotiations with management and the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation yielded concessions on wages and working (...)
EL MAHALLA EL KOBRA: A crippling strike at Egypt's largest public sector factory entered its fifth day on Thursday as workers, angry at corruption and what they call a string of lies and broken promises, say they will not end their occupation of the (...)
CAIRO: Thousands of workers in the Nile Delta town of El Mahalla El Kobra continued their strike for a third day on Tuesday, erecting a tent city in the center of the factory grounds even as three more strike leaders were arrested by state (...)