The Egyptian prosecution released three members from the Egyptian Initiative of Human Rights (EIPR) on December 4, 2020. The trio of human rights workers were arrested on November 15 on fabricated charges of joining a terrorist group.

Egypt’s court of cassation yesterday sentenced 23 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to five years in prison and acquitted five others.

In her upcoming book Complaint! feminist scholar Sara Ahmed reminds the reader of what in another world would have been quite obvious: that the weight of complaining about sexual violence falls primarily on the survivor/victim. In a lecture titled “Mind the Gap! Complaint as a Queer Method” at Hebbel am …

Egypt’s government announced on Wednesday that it had approved legal amendments toughening the penalties for female genital mutilation.

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood said Monday that the decision of authorities to confiscate the assets of 89 of the group’s leaders and figures is a politically-motivated revenge against it.

The long-delayed executive bylaws for new legislation governing the operations of non-governmental organizations were published in the Official Gazette on Thursday, a final step in the implementation of the highly scrutinized law.

An Egyptian court on Sunday ordered the seizure of assets of former president Mohamed Morsi and 88 other members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, a judicial source said.

An Egyptian court Thursday prolonged the detention of two young women, accusing them of human trafficking connected to social media videos, after their acquittal this week on other charges, legal sources said.

Egyptian authorities intensified their repression of peaceful government critics and ordinary people during 2020, virtually obliterating any space for peaceful assembly, association or expression, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021.

An Egyptian appeals court has acquitted two young women imprisoned for “attacking society’s values” over videos they published on TikTok.