Over the summer last year, Nourhan Moustafa’s brother left the house to attend a meeting with a colleague but, instead, was arrested by National Security Agency officers who stole his money, keys and mobile phone.

Egypt’s President of the State Council, Counselor Mohamed Hossam Al-Din, met with a Libyan high-level delegation headed by Counselor Daw Al-Ghazwi — a member of the Supreme Judicial Council of Libya — to discuss ways to enhance cooperation and benefit from the expertise of the Egyptian State Council in the …

Egypt has recently freed several prominent political detainees, raising hopes for an easing of a sweeping crackdown on dissent. But for rights activists, repression remains “systematic” and there is no relaxation in sight.

Prominent Egyptian women’s rights activist Amal Fathy has been sentenced to a year in prison for posting a video on Facebook in which she criticised authorities’ failure to protect women from sexual harassment.

Investigations by the Egyptian authorities have exonerated the country’s health minister, Hala Zayed, in a bribery case involving senior ministry officials, local media reported yesterday.

Egypt’s superficial attempts to create an impression of human rights progress failed to disguise the government’s brutal repression of all manner of dissent in 2021, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2022.

The Egyptian Public Prosecution Service accepted yesterday the petition filed by political activist Mamdouh Hamza against the inclusion of his name on the state’s list of “terrorists”. The move annuls the decision in the case last October in which he was convicted for “inciting violence and spreading fake news aiming …

Egypt’s State Security Prosecution has decided to extend the prison term of three Al Jazeera journalists for 45 days, despite reports that one is suffering serious health problems.

Human rights organisations and activists yesterday welcomed Egypt’s decision to release 15 female detainees after they spent two years in pretrial detention.

On January 8, Egyptian-Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath arrived in Paris after Egyptian authorities released him from prison and deported him after over 900 days in remand detention. He walked out of Charles de Gaulle Airport with his wife Celine Lebrun-Shaath to a cheering crowd of supporters. Yet the conditions of …