The Ever Given will not be allowed to leave Egypt until its Japanese owner pays compensation for the Suez Canal blockage.

Human rights sources in Egypt revealed that a number of prisoners in Cairo’s Wadi El-Natrun prison have staged a strike in protest against mass executions that were carried out earlier this month, Arabi21 reported.

The Egyptian National Action Group (ENAG), which includes opposition figures at home and abroad, called in a statement on the United Nations and the UN Security Council to put an end to politicised executions against oppositionists in Egypt.

A little over three months after her acquittal by a Cairo Economic Appeals Court in a high profile morality case, TikTok influencer Haneen Hossam remains behind bars pending an investigation over “human trafficking” charges in a new case.

Egypt is inventorying Muslim Brotherhood assets in Sinai as the judiciary considers a lawsuit for the confiscation of real estate including houses, land and farms owned by Brotherhood leaders.

Egyptian authorities executed nine people Monday over the storming of a police station in 2013 in which 13 policemen were killed, a security source said.

Egyptian authorities will release 1,686 prisoners to mark Ramadan, including members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement, according to reports.

Four Middle Eastern states accounted for a large share of executions worldwide last year, according to a leading human rights organization.

Twenty-three railway employees have been detained pending investigation into their involvement in the Toukh train crash earlier this week that has left at least 23 dead and 139 injured, according to updated figures in a Public Prosecution statement.

While the year 2020 witnessed an overall decline in the number of global death penalties, some countries increased the number of executions they carried out.