The Public Prosecution urged anyone in possession of footage of the 2014 gang rape alleged to have taken place in Cairo’s Fairmont Nile City Hotel to come forward on Wednesday, pledging confidentiality and protection to witnesses. 

Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta, the national body responsible for issuing religious edicts, said yesterday that there is no objection to the state taking whatever means and measures it deems necessary to regulate the country’s birth rate.

For the second time in six years, Egypt has toughened legal penalties against the perpetrators of female genital mutilation (FGM), almost a year after a 14-year-old teenager lost her life while undergoing the heinous procedure in southern Egypt.

Egypt is grappling with two separate sexual assault cases – one highlighting the steps that have been taken to address the issue and the other underlining monumental failings by authorities.

Amnesty International called upon activists on Wednesday to launch a campaign for the immediate release of journalist Solafa Magdy, who was arrested in Egypt and is facing terrorism charges.

Detained journalist Solafa Magdy has accused police officers and personnel at Qanater Prison of physical assault, harassment and intimidation, according to legal complaints filed to several state authorities by Magdy’s defense team on Saturday.

Egypt is a country with, as of April to June 2020, a 9.6 percent unemployment rate, a rise of 1.9 percent from the first quarter of the year. However, for veiled women (hijabis), who objectively constitute a majority of women in Egypt, employment is a different ballgame.

Egyptian Member of Parliament (MP) Amal Salama has announced that she is proposing new amendments to toughen the penalties for domestic violence and spousal abuse, namely intimate partner violence against women.

In her upcoming book Complaint! feminist scholar Sara Ahmed reminds the reader of what in another world would have been quite obvious: that the weight of complaining about sexual violence falls primarily on the survivor/victim. In a lecture titled “Mind the Gap! Complaint as a Queer Method” at Hebbel am …

In late December 2019, the story of an Egyptian girl from the city of Farshout who wears the niqab speaking out about her gang rape by a group of influential men in the small Qena city in the heart of Upper Egypt, made headlines in the Egyptian media, both print …