Over 220 European lawmakers have joined US counterparts urging Egypt to release political prisoners. Rights groups have called the mobilization “unprecedented.” Analysts say it needs to be followed by tough action.
With US President Donald Trump trailing the Democratic presidential nominee in the polls, Cairo is contemplating the prospects of a Joe Biden electoral victory .
Fifty-six US lawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate called Monday on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to release prisoners of conscience over humanitarian concerns, reports Anadolu Agency.
The Justice Ministry launched a new plan on Sunday to conduct detention renewals electronically instead of holding in-person court sessions, a move defense lawyers say will undermine basic due process rights.
Almost 70 days after being displaced when Province of Sinai militants seized control of their villages, and weathering subsequent unfilled promises from the Armed Forces that they’d be able to return swiftly, the residents of four villages in the Bir al-Abd region of North Sinai made their way home last …
A Giza criminal court ordered the release of satirist and video blogger Shady Abu Zaid with probationary measures late on Saturday, according to his lawyers.
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