A civilian was transferred to military prosecution on Sunday morning after skirmishes with workers at a military-run gas station on the Suez road the night before.
Tamer Allam was travelling back to Cairo with his family on the Suez road on Saturday (...)
A strike at a children's park in Al-Shati camp in Gaza killed 10 children celebrating the first day of the Muslim Eid Al-Fitr holiday on Monday.
The strike was shortly followed by another one hitting the external clinics of Al-Shifa hospital in (...)
Hamas must agree to a humanitarian ceasefire without preconditions for the people of Gaza, United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told reporters in Cairo on Thursday.
Hammond joined the string of foreign diplomats visiting Cairo amid (...)
An aid convoy headed for Gaza was stopped at the Balouza security checkpoint in North Sinai on Saturday afternoon, a few kilometres away from the Rafah border crossing.
Comprised of 11 buses, the convoy aimed to deliver food and medicine to the (...)
The state-affiliated National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) called Tuesday for postponing the issuance of a draft legislation regulating the activities of civil society organisations within Egypt.
The Ministry of Social Solidarity presented the (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued on Tuesday a presidential decree forming a Supreme Electoral Commission to oversee the upcoming parliamentary elections.
During a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry on 22 June, Al-Sisi announced that (...)
A new civil society draft law will "throttle" Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and "rob them of their independence", said Human Rights Watch.
In a Monday statement, the international watchdog condemned the draft law and called for it to be (...)
At least 90 students have been expelled from Cairo University throughout the past academic year for their alleged implication in acts of on-campus violence.
The expelled students, reported to be 94 by state-run Al-Ahram, can appeal their expulsion (...)
The prosecutor general's office announced Saturday the referral of 17 defendants to the Alexandria Criminal Court, charged with murder after the dispersal of Pro-Mohamed Morsi encampments in August 2013.
Six citizens were killed amid clashes which (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued Tuesday a presidential decree amending the law governing universities in a manner which signals a return to the appointment of university chairmen and deans.
Universities nationwide have been adopting a system (...)
The Free Egyptians Party (FEP) expressed on Wednesday its concern regarding domestic and international reactions toward Egypt's way of handling issues of freedom of expression.
The party called for reviewing recently issued "controversial" (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said on Tuesday that judicial rulings must be respected, following harsh and widely condemned prison sentences served on Monday to Egyptian and foreign journalists.
Commenting on a recent court verdict sending three Al (...)
Younes Makhioun, chairman of the Salafi Al-Nour Party, accused newly appointed Culture Minister Gaber Asfour of contradicting the constitution.
In a statement released on Saturday, Makhioun criticised Asfour for saying he would have allowed the (...)
Children's rights organisations called on the prosecutor general to investigate an opinion piece published in private-owned daily Al-Masry Al-Youm's Friday issue, saying that the piece incites the mass killing of street children.
Award winning (...)
Al-Sharabeya Misdemeanour Court issued a swift verdict on Saturday, handing a year in prison to a man who was captured last Wednesday while taking a photo of a sleeping woman on a public bus.
Accused of sexual harassment under the newly-issued (...)
The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) called on Egypt on Thursday to unfreeze its activities in the initiative, concluding a meeting of Nile Council of Ministers (Nile-COM) in Khartoum, Sudan.
NBI new chairman, also Sudan's Minister of Water Resources and (...)
A group of anti-harassment movements announced Sunday their presence in future gatherings in Tahrir Square to combat mass sexual assault, regardless of their agreement or disagreement with causes for demonstration.
Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment, (...)
The Heliopolis Misdemeanour Court postponed Sunday the trial of two men accused of assaulting a policeman and harassing two women during celebrations of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's inauguration last week.
The trial, postponed to 22 June, comes (...)
The 15-year prison sentence served to political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and 24 others on Wednesday is "an outrageous travesty of justice," said international human rights watchdog Amnesty International.
Abdel Fattah and 24 others were sentenced (...)
France condemns the "despicable" incidents of sexual assault reported in Tahrir Square during celebrations of new President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's inauguration, the French foreign ministry spokesperson told reporters in a press briefing on (...)
Seven women were subjected to "indecent assault" and not rape amid celebrations of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's inauguration in Tahrir Square on Sunday, said Forensics Authority Spokesman Hisham Abdel Hameed.
Civil Society organisations reported (...)
At least 500 Egyptians have been victims of sexual violence since February 2011 and until January 2014, a group of civil society organisations said on Monday.
Twenty-five civil society organisations condemned the latest wave of sexual assault in (...)
At least five cases of sexual assault were reported in Tahrir Square on Sunday as people flocked to Egypt's iconic square to celebrate the inauguration of army general Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, according to anti-harassment group I Saw Harassment (Shoft (...)
Members of the Students Against the Coup (SAC) movement at Cairo University torched Saturday a security checkpoint outside the University's Giza campus over the death of a movement's member.
Islam Ghanem, a student at the University's Faculty of (...)
Four police officers charged with negligence relating to the death of 37 detained protesters in August of 2013 had their sentences overturned by an appeals court on Saturday.
The detainees were killed as a teargas canister was shot into a vehicle (...)