A grainy video circulating widely on social media has heightened concerns that police in the new Egypt are relying on old ways. A blindfolded man lies on the floor, naked from the waist up. The skin on his shoulders and upper back is an angry red.

Egyptian coup leader General Abdul-Fatah al-Sisi said that the state institution has received a “strong attack” because of hostility to the police and the interior ministry.

Egyptian coup leader General Abdul-Fatah al-Sisi said that the state institution has received a “strong attack” because of hostility to the police and the interior ministry.

Egyptian coup authorities detained on Monday the veteran judicial activist and former parliamentarian Mahmoud Al-Khudairi.

A new law placing broad restrictions on protests in Egypt is a serious setback that poses a grave threat to freedom of assembly and gives security forces a free rein to use excessive force, including lethal force, against demonstrators, Amnesty International said today.

It was reported in Al-Sabah newspaper that 575 soldiers who worked for Mubarak’s security state and were dismissed during the revolution, have been reinstated. I then read of a young man named Alaa Hawari from Sohag, who was protesting about the shortage of gas barrels for stoves and found himself …

A survey conducted by the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research, also known as Baseera, has revealed that 62 percent of Egyptians approve of an anti-terrorism act while 57 percent agree to another draft law dealing with political demonstrations.

The General Department for Public Funds Crime Investigations announced on Sunday that it is designating an operation room to receive complaints from citizens on incidents of bribery.

An al-Qaeda-linked group based in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula claimed responsibility for a failed assassination attempt that targeted the country’s interior minister last week, a statement on militant Islamist forums said. “God has allowed your brothers in Ansar Beit al-Maqdis [the Sinai-based group] to shatter the security organization of the murderer …

The statement by Egypt’s de facto ruler, Defense Minister and Egyptian Armed Forces Commander General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, that “there is room for everyone” in Egypt seems to indicate a readiness to negotiate a way out of the country’s bloody crisis. Addressing supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi and the …