Egyptian opposition factions are to organise demonstrations in the US and seven other countries against execution sentences carried out by the Egyptian regime.

Al-Shehab Centre for Human Rights yesterday called for the urgent treatment of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammad Al-Beltaji, who is imprisoned in the notorious Al-Aqrab Prison in Egypt.

March is truly a month for Egyptian women. While the world celebrates International Women’s Day on March 8, Egyptian Women’s Day falls on March 16, when women took to the streets in the first mass demonstration against British colonialism during the revolution of 1919. 

Despite court rulings that should put three MPs on the path to having their memberships revoked, Parliament’s leadership has largely dragged its feet in carrying out the process without providing much of an explanation.

Sa’eed Abdel Hafez, chairman of the Forum for Development and Human Rights Dialog, emphasized that Egypt has faced a transitional period and is seeking political and economic stability. He affirmed that this does not mean enabling any of the state institutions to abuse the basic human rights.

Egypt’s foreign minister has admitted Egyptian embassies are being used in combatting what he said were “attempts to undermine the state” just days after an exiled Egyptian actor was sentenced eight years to prison in absentia for criticising the Sisi regime.

Egypt has been withholding the bodies of several prisoners after their execution, preventing their families from burying them, according to Ahmed El-Attar of Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms.

In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful, I stand before you today to mark an occasion that is dear to every Egyptian and every Arab and to all free nations who recognised the value of a great revolution that emanated out of Egypt, a revolution from which the …

The south Sinai governorate has started building a 37-kilometer (23-mile) concrete barrier around the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea, stretching from east to west, from Nabq National Park to Ras Mohamed Nature Reserve.

Since the military overthrow in July 2013 of Egypt’s then president Mohamed Morsi, the regime of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has engaged in the systematic repression of the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Morsi is a member. It has done so by implementing policies commonly regarded as effective means of “decapitating” …