Members of the General Shura Council of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Abroad renewed their “pledge of allegiance” to the General Guide, his deputy and acting director, Ibrahim Mounir, announcing the dismissal of the Muslim Brotherhood’s media spokesman, Talaat Fahmy.

The death of businessman Khaled Al-Adawy is “considered premeditated murder” as he was forcibly disappeared, tortured, and denied medical treatment, the Egyptian Network for Human Rights said.

The former editor-in-chief of the Investigative Journal (TIJ), a media outlet based in London, has been awarded more than 80,000 British pounds in damages against the outlet and its CEO, Canadian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fahmy, after filing with a British court to claim she was misled into joining the organization only …

The Geneva-based human rights group, the Committee for Justice (CFJ), has condemned Egypt’s latest mass death sentences despite the numerous violations that marred the investigation and due process.

Egyptian authorities said yesterday they had blocked a scheme aimed at financing the banned Muslim Brotherhood group through companies owned by the imprisoned founder and former chairman of dairy and juice firm Juhayna Food Industries, Safwan Thabet.

US national security adviser Jake Sullivan discussed securing “tangible and lasting improvements” in human rights with Egypt’s president and other top officials during a visit to Cairo on Wednesday, a senior US official said.

Prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah’s fate remains “unclear” after on Thursday he completed two years and one day in pre-trial detention – contrary to Egypt’s code of criminal procedure, a member of his legal team has said.

Egypt has released four Salafi preachers who were members of the Salafist Front, part of the Anti-Coup Alliance political coalition formed in 2013 which opposed the military take-over of power.

Egypt on Tuesday postponed the trial of rights activist Patrick Zaki, his support committee said, accusing authorities of seeking to keep him “imprisoned as long as possible without any legal basis”.

Egyptian security forces have arrested an Egyptian media professor, Ayman Mansour Nada, who criticised media figures close to the regime.