Egyptian security services arrested Al Jazeera journalist Rabie Al-Sheikh at Cairo Airport on Sunday upon his return from Doha for a family visit, sources told Middle East Eye (MEE).

A Cairo-based rights group has condemned the treatment of a prominent Egyptian blogger following reports that he attempted suicide in Egypt’s notorious Tora prison.

An Egyptian court dealing with threats to national security has tasked the government with addressing the International Criminal Police Organization — Interpol — to arrest three Egyptians, including a construction contractor in self-exile, for inciting the public against the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

An Egyptian court yesterday requested that Interpol issue an arrest notice for prominent contractor Mohamed Ali and two others for “inciting violence and spreading fake news, and joining a terrorist group.”

Hundreds of Egyptian journalists have called for the release of all political prisoners, local media reported yesterday.

Recent examples include the Canadian company Sandvine, which provided censorship technology to Belarus and Egypt; the French firm Nexa Technologies, which sold internet surveillance equipment to Libya and Egypt; and the U.S.-based company Oracle, which provided surveillance products in China. Western companies have a long track record of selling powerful …

Over the last 24 hours, Egyptian authorities have released six high-profile political prisoners who were being held in remand detention, some of them for over two years.

Opposing Arabic hashtags “Renaissance Dam” and “fill the dam” are trending in Egypt and Ethiopia following the news that Addis Ababa has begun the second phase of filling the dam, a reflection of how polarised the issue has become between the two Nile basin countries.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry praised Turkey’s decision of banning the Egyptian fugitives of the outlawed group Brotherhood from using social media, describing it as “a positive step.”

The headlines emblazoned across nearly all state and private newspapers in Egypt today, June 30, are emblazoned with praise for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and laud the “new republic,” a term Sisi himself used in a speech several months ago to describe the scope of his ambition to transform Egypt.