This article is not about promoting intellectual tranquilisers or selling illusions to those oppressed by the injustices in Egypt for the past eight years and more. Rather, it is an attempt to analyse some real events that give a genuine glimmer of hope in the darkness of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi …

Africa’s leading human rights authority has called on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to suspend death penalties against 26 men who are feared to be at risk of immediate execution.

The trial session of prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah was adjourned on Monday as his lawyers were denied the right to present their arguments, according a defence team member.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi recently ended an almost three-decade-long state of emergency that had been restricting civil rights in the country.

An Egyptian court has renewed the detention of the head of the Strong Egypt Party, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, for allegedly broadcasting and publishing false news and statements.

The security powers of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the country’s army are set to be significantly increased after new amendments to the “national terrorism law” were approved by parliament.

The Economic Court of Egypt yesterday issued a final ruling to lift the asset freeze on the two sons of the late President Hosni Mubarak after they were acquitted of illicit share trading last year.

An Egyptian court is to issue a verdict on November 29 in the case of Hossam Bahgat, one of the country’s most prominent rights advocates who is being tried over a tweet.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi announced on 25 October that he had lifted the national state of emergency, but laws he has adopted since he took power are as restrictive as the state of emergency itself, say rights groups.

Amnesty International has called on Egypt to end ongoing trials using emergency courts on arbitrarily detained human rights defenders, as the country lifts its state of emergency.