Egyptian authorities have detained at least 73 people volunteering for a challenger to incumbent President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in the December election, a rights group said Tuesday. Seven remained in detention as of Monday.
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How Brute Violence Became Egypt’s Answer to Virtually Everything
Karim Assaad, a 30-year-old Egyptian journalist, stayed up late on August 18 to finish some work so he could enjoy the rest of the weekend with his wife and 2-year-old son. Before dawn’s light filled the skies in Cairo, Assaad heard aggressive knocks on their door. “We thought the building …
Interior Ministry arrests murderers of Omani diplomat in Cairo
The Egyptian Ministry of Interior have arrested the murderers of a former employee of the Omani Embassy in Cairo.
Blast at Egypt army base in insurgent-hit North Sinai kills three officers and four troops
Seven Egyptian soldiers were killed in an explosion at an air defence base in North Sinai on Sunday, The New Arab’s Arabic-language site, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed has reported.
Phone of Egyptian presidential hopeful ‘hacked several times’ using European spyware
Aspiring Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Tantawy’s phone was hacked by European commercial spyware several times after he announced his interest in running for the Egyptian presidency, a report by The Citizen Lab has found.
Canada warns against travel to Egypt, calling it a ‘high risk’ country
The Canadian federal government issued a travel warning that included a number of countries such as Egypt.
Egyptians call for ending demolition of ancient cemeteries
Hundreds of Egyptian public figures, political parties, professional unions, activists and specialists demanded an immediate halt to demolition operations carried out over the past few months in Cairo’s historic cemeteries to make way for a highway and major road infrastructure.
Demolition of Cairo’s historic mausoleums provokes outrage
Egyptian award-winning journalist Shahira Amin slammed the ongoing demolition of momentous mausoleums that once chronicled the country’s history, describing it as being “similar to the Taliban’s destruction of ancient Buddha statutes.”
Egypt seeks to prevent protests by displaced in Sinai
Egyptian military forces and intelligence are seeking to prevent the spread of protests by displaced people in North Sinai, a governorate in the country’s east.
The Gold War
Standing at any point in the deserts of Aswan and looking out across the vast expanse of sand that stretches out toward the horizon in all directions, the vastness, the seeming emptiness, it is hard to imagine that this is the staging ground of a slow brewing war.