Egyptian children are being recruited to fight for pro-government militias in the North Sinai where an Islamic State group insurgency is raging, The New Arab’s Arabic sister site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported on Wednesday.
Read More »Egypt prisons using ‘systemic sexual violence’ on detainees
Sexual violence against detainees in Egypt is “systemic”, according to a report by The Egyptian Front for Human Rights and Freedom released on Thursday.
Read More »Explained: EU arms sales to Sisi’s Egypt
European Union countries have increased their arms sales to Egypt significantly since general-turned-president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi seized power following a military coup in 2013.
Read More »The ‘Egypt Papers’: Here is what we know so far
Over the past week, the investigative French platform Disclose has published a series of stories on Egypt-French relations dubbed the “Egypt-Papers.” The stories hone in on arms and spytech deals between the two countries, as well as a joint counterterrorism mission from 2016 to 2018 that resulted in at least …
Read More »Egypt using French military aid to ‘kill civilians’: report
Egypt has used intelligence supplied by the French military to target and “kill civilians” suspected of smuggling, according to a report Sunday by investigative website Disclose, based on leaked documents.
Read More »Egypt’s el-Sisi lifts state of emergency in force since 2017
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has announced the lifting of a years-long nationwide state of emergency.
Read More »Egyptian authorities silencing activists with ‘intimidation’, says Amnesty
Amnesty International on Thursday accused Egyptian security agencies of “persistent intimidation and harassment” of human rights defenders as a political tactic to silence them.
Read More »HRW: Suspicious Killings and Extrajudicial Executions by Egyptian Security Forces
This report covers a pattern of suspicious killings and probable extrajudicial executions by Egyptian Interior Ministry forces of people who at the moment of their deaths apparently posed no life-threatening danger to security forces or others, and so amounted to deliberate and unlawful killings. In all of the cases documented …
Read More »Egypt publishes video of soldiers killing sleeping, unarmed men in North Sinai
Egypt’s public prosecutor has been urged to investigate a “propaganda video” released by the Egyptian army on Sunday, which showed soldiers shooting unarmed men in the war-torn North Sinai region, in the country’s north-east.
Read More »Egypt angry as it says Ethiopia has resumed filling GERD
Egypt has said it received an official notice from Ethiopia that it had started the next phase of filling a controversial huge dam on the Nile River’s main tributary, raising tensions days before an upcoming meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the issue.
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