On Oct. 5, hundreds of employees from Egypt’s Workers University, a private university with 14 branches across the country, began a strike and sit-in to protest the fact that some 4,000 workers had not received their salaries in September amidst rumors that October salaries would also not be paid. The employees’ patience …

Hundreds of workers at the Workers Cultural Foundation and its affiliated Workers University staged a sit-in on Saturday to demand receipt of their salaries and to petition for oversight of the university to be removed from the Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF), according to three workers who spoke to Mada …

The Cairo Administrative Court has issued a ruling to expel five detained lawyers from the Bar Association, according to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.

Members of the Journalists’ Syndicate in Egypt have ignored the issue of the normalisation deals between the UAE, Bahrain and Israel, New Khaleej reported on Wednesday. This is, apparently, because the UAE has paid the union’s members not to cover the deals.

Egyptian healthcare workers find themselves in a precarious position, with many forced to choose between risking their lives in the fight against Covid-19 and being arrested for voicing safety concerns or criticising the government’s handling of the public health crisis.

These days, if you go walking in the “well-guarded city” – the “Al-Mahrusa” as Cairo has been dubbed – after 8pm, you will see only policemen patrolling the empty streets, enforcing the exceptional rules laid down by the government to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

A member of Egypt’s medical union has appeared at the Supreme State Security Prosecutor’s office for investigation after being arrested on 28 June.

A doctor arrested after writing an article about Egypt’s fragile health system. A pharmacist picked up from work after posting online about a shortage of protective gear. An editor taken from his home after questioning official coronavirus figures. A pregnant doctor arrested after a colleague used her phone to report …

Egypt’s Medical Syndicate publicly condemned Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly’s comments during an address he made yesterday, accusing him of blaming doctors for the country’s worsening epidemiological situation.

When the editor-in-chief of Egypt’s most prominent investigative media outlet was arrested by security forces last month outside Cairo’s notorious Tora prison complex, Leena al-Deeb grabbed her phone to inform her best friend, a local journalist.