Two journalists were detained and beaten by pro-Morsi demonstrators while covering a march heading to Al-Nahda Square on Friday, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) reported in a statement released on Monday.
Demonstrators detained Mohamed Momtaz, a (...)
Al-Nour party rejected the criteria set for the formation of the constituent assembly, in a statement released on their Facebook page on Monday.
The party denounced interim Vice-President Mohamed ElBaradei's plan to create the 50 member constituent (...)
Interim president Adly Mansour and several political groups have reacted angrily to US congressmen John McCain and Lindsey Graham's use of the term coup in relation to the recent political upheaval. The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) welcomed the (...)
Information regarding the investigations of trials of public importance must be disseminated, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said in a statement on Tuesday.
Trials of public interest include former prosecutor general Talaat (...)
Foreign ministry officials held press conferences and meetings with government officials in India, Algeria and Sudan according to statements released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.
The Egyptian Media Office in Khartoum, Sudan held an (...)
Due to the large number of participants and children in the Rabaa Al-Adaweya sit-in, even tear gas can cause deaths from trampling and suffocation, Human Rights Watch (HRW) Egypt Director Heba Morayef said in a video released on Tuesday.
Morayef (...)
Ambassador Khaled Omara, head of the Egyptian Interests Delegation in Tehran, met with Iranian officials, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Monday.
The meeting is one of many taking place as a part of a larger effort (...)
The Cairo Criminal Court delayed examining the third session of the retrial of businessman Ahmed Ezz and former Head of the Industrial Development Authority, Amr Assal on Monday, according to state-run Al-Ahram.
The session was postponed to 5 (...)
Commander of the Armed Forces General Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi met with Islamist leaders according to a statement released by the armed forces spokesman on Sunday.
In the meeting the army said the Rabaa Al-Adaweya and Al-Nahda Square sit-ins would not be (...)
Instead of calling protests that use firearms and molotov cocktails legitimate and meddling in Egypt's domestic affairs, South Africa should have protected the rights of its protesting miners, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a (...)
The US Secretary of State supports the EU's efforts to "calm tensions," and has been in close contact with regional foreign ministers to discuss Egyptian affairs.
In a Monday press briefing, US State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki said John Kerry (...)
The Ahrar movement has called for purges of the army, police, media, judiciary and Al-Azhar to complete the goals of the 25 January revolution.
The movement, also known as the Third Square, has framed itself as against the Muslim Brotherhood, (...)
A few hundred people marched against the Muslim Brotherhood, military rule and remnants of Mubarak's regime on Sunday.
The rally was organised by a movement called Ahrar, which rejects the Brotherhood, military and former president Hosni Mubarak's (...)
Two photographers have reported being assaulted during the violence at the Rabaa Al-Adaweya sit-in on Saturday, the latest in a string of incidents involving journalists covering protests.
Daily News Egypt photographer Halim El-Sharani said he was (...)
A delegation of human rights lawyers has requested to meet arrested Muslim Brotherhood leaders, according to the Head of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) Hafez Abu Saada.
Abu Saada, one of the lawyers from the delegation, said they (...)
The Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned the Egyptian security forces' attack against the Rabaa Al-Adaweya protesters in a Saturday statement.
The ministry said: "It is crucial that demonstrators, who until now expressed their righteous demands for (...)
About one thousand people marched from Amr Ibn Al-A'as Mosque in Old Cairo to Al-Nahda Square on Friday in support of former president Mohamed Morsi.
The march took off after Friday prayer and called for General Commander of the Armed Forces Abdul (...)
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A pro-Morsi rally in Damietta was cut off by local residents, according to Al-Dostour Party member Ahmed Abu Omar.
According to Omar, the march numbered "between 1,000 to 2,000 people" and was (...)
The Foreign Ministry announced its concern about new settlements and roads leading to Israel in the West Bank, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesman Badr Abdel Atty said on Monday on the ministry's Facebook page.
Egypt urged Israel to not take any (...)
The North Cairo Criminal Court is considering temporarily seizing assets of 14 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya.
Considering the asset seizure came in response to the public prosecution's investigation, which proved that (...)
There are no divisions in the army, despite attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood to portray the 8 April Army Officers movement as defectors, the group said in a statement on Saturday.
The officers said the Brotherhood has tried to take advantage of (...)
Tamarod and the Muslim Brotherhood are calling for protests on Friday, according to their respective websites.
The Brotherhood has marches planned from 18 different mosques in Cairo according to their website, and the Freedom and Justice Party's (...)
On the anniversary of the 10th of Ramadan (6 October 1973 war with Israel), Egypt is "living through a dark nightmare," the Muslim Brotherhood said in a statement released on Thursday.
The Egyptian army, "which had no political role," defeated (...)
A man claimed that Rabaa Al-Adaweya protesters amputated his finger and tortured him, according to his interview on Tahrir channel on Monday.
The man, who did not reveal his name, stated that as he was going to use the bathroom near Tiba Mall in (...)
There have been no meetings between the Muslim Brotherhood or the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and the army, FJP Spokesman Mohamed Soudan said on Monday.
Soudan stated that the army has tried to contact Mohamed Ali Bishr, a Brotherhood official, (...)