Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) on Wednesday said it was shocked that the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has postponed the anti-torture conference in Cairo scheduled for September following rights groups’ backlash against Egypt’s human rights record.

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.

Egypt submitted a “fair technical” solution for the disagreement between Cairo and Addis Ababa about the under-construction Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), according to a statement by the Egyptian Cabinet on Wednesday.

Egyptian-Chinese Naval forces began on Wednesday a maritime exercise within the boundaries of the northern maritime fleet in the Mediterranean sea. The training features the participation of several Egyptian warships and the Chinese destroyer XIAN-153, said military spokesperson Tamer al-Refeai.

Egypt’s army spokesperson Tamer El Refa’ai said on Tuesday that Egyptian a group of airborne forces left the country to partake in a joint military exercise that will take place in Russia on Tuesday, with the participation of military forces from Russia and Belarus.

While in Cyprus, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed July 31 with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides bilateral cooperation in oil fields in the eastern Mediterranean.

Ramy Shaath, whose father is former senior Palestinian diplomat and negotiator Nabeel Shaath, has been detained on charges of assisting a terrorist group based on “findings” that he and his lawyer have not been allowed to examine, the family said in a statement on Wednesday.

Hours after the United Nations decided to postpone a planned anti-torture conference in Cairo, over 80 prominent human rights workers, lawyers, journalists, activists and public figures in Egypt called on the UN to “explicitly cancel or reallocate the event to another country with the minimum respect for human rights,” in …

On Aug. 5, Egyptian public prosecutor Nabil Sadek ordered the urgent referral of 11 defendants, including four Libyans, to the National Security Court (NSC). They were accused of spying for members of the Islamic State (IS) in Libya with the aim of committing terrorist crimes against Egyptians in Libya.

The United Nations has decided to postpone a regional conference on torture that was due to be held in Egypt in September, following an outcry by human rights organisations, a UN spokesperson told Middle East Eye on Tuesday.