The list of those being considered for prosecution by a team of international lawyers includes journalists and clerics associated with the coup in Egypt, it has been revealed. Tayab Ali of London’s ITN Solicitors, who heads the team, said that they intend to prosecute all those accused with crimes against …

Egypt’s three-month state of emergency and the accompanying nighttime curfew are ending. It was eerily quiet when I visited Cairo, a city known for the incessant sound of car horns honking until well after midnight and a bustling night life that sustained an organized chaos, this summer. Unlike the curfew …

Public Prosecutor Hesham Barakat referred on Tuesday 30 reports that had been filed against satirist Bassem Youssef to Cairo Appeal Prosecution for investigation.

Two journalists working for an independent newspaper are to stand trial for “defaming” judges in an article published in 2012, Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported on Monday.

Two journalists working for an independent newspaper are to stand trial for “defaming” judges in an article published in 2012, Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported on Monday.

CAIRO — A leaked video of senior Egyptian Army officers debating how to influence the news media during the months preceding the military takeover offers a rare glimpse of the anxiety within the institution at the prospect of civilian oversight.

An Egyptian court has ordered the closure of four television channels that have been accused of sympathising with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Throughout the past two months, Egyptians have felt that there is an international conspiracy against them. While such a feeling is not new to Arabs in general, what is new is that Egyptians and many Arabs were shocked at the Western media, which has long been thought of as being …

(New York) – Egypt’s military-installed government should end its arbitrary acts against the Muslim Brotherhood and the news media, Human Rights Watch said today. Since Defense Minister General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi announced the removal of President Mohamed Morsy from power on the night of July 3, the authorities have detained Muslim Brotherhood leaders, …

When a group of journalists with a passion for independent media began to work for The Egypt Independent four years ago, none of them realized that the great administration saw what they printed as a mouthpiece for the interests of its owner and not as independent press.