A prominent Palestinian politician has said his son has been under arrest in Egypt for over a month because of his acitivism for the boycott movement against Israel, known as BDS.

Twenty-four-year old Raghad Mohamed was killed on Saturday at an Egyptian army checkpoint whilst walking in the city of Al-Arish with her mother, Al Jazeera Mubasher has reported. Raghad was killed just days before she was due to get married.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced six defendants to death after being found guilty in the case known as “Popular Resistance in Kerdasa” Meanwhile 41 other defendants were sentenced to lifetime imprisonment.

Google is re-staffing its office in Cairo for the first time since a military coup in 2013 that brought President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to power in Egypt, media have reported.

Bedouin in the city of Negila west of Marsa Matrouh are staging a sit-in to protest the confiscation of their land they say is being sold on to the UAE.

Head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council Maha Azzam has written to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria urging her to publicly condemn the regional conference on torture which will be held in Cairo at the beginning of September and will be co-hosted by the international body.

Egyptian authorities arrested a leading activist from Warraq Island on Sunday as part of a broader crackdown on the island’s residents, who have been engaged in a long-running battle over government plans to expropriate land for a contentious redevelopment project.

Several Political parties formed committees to receive requests of their members to run for anticipated parliament, senate and local municipalities elections expected during the upcoming year.

The United Nations is set to hold a conference on torture in Egypt, where authorities are accused of rampant human rights abuses.

Six years ago, Egyptian security forces killed hundreds of supporters of Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected president, in what was one of the deadliest days for demonstrations in Egypt‘s modern history.