Egypt is seeking to delay the completion of investigations into the killing of the Italian PhD researcher, Giulio Regeni, who was murdered in Cairo in early 2016, Egyptian diplomatic sources reported yesterday.

A military court in Egypt rejected Tuesday the appeals in the bombing of three churches. It upheld the death sentences of 20 convicts, life sentence of 17, 15-year imprisonment for one and 10-year for another.

Al Jazeera accused Egypt of becoming “a lawless country with no respect for journalists” on Wednesday after a reporter ordered released by a court was again jailed despite spending 890 days detained without charge.

Almost 2,500 people, including women and children, have been sentenced to death in Egypt since the 2013 coup in which the democratically-elected government of Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. At least 144 death sentences have been carried out by Sisi’s government, which started a crackdown on …

At least 2,443 people, including minors at the time of their arrest, have been sentenced to death by Egyptian courts between 2011 and 2018, according to rights group Reprieve. The majority, the organisation says, have been handed out since President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi seized control of the country in a 2013 …

An international media group has demanded that Egypt free an Al Jazeera journalist held for more than two years after a court formally ordered his release last week. 

Egypt has unfrozen the assets of former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, who was acquitted on all corruption-related charges earlier this month, a judicial source confirmed Sunday.

A former diplomat who called for a referendum on Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s government has been released from jail.

With President El-Sissi in power and the security grip over legal institutions and courts, doubts were raised as to whether it still makes sense to go to court against the state over matters of rights and freedoms.

Egyptian authorities today released Al Jazeera news reporter Mahmoud Hussein under caution after detaining him for 29 months. His daughter, Az-Zahra, confirmed his release on Facebook.