Saudi authorities have arrested and handed several Egyptian dissidents over to Cairo, where they are facing trial for their political activism, one of their families told Middle East Eye.
A recent study by GlobeScan has revealed that 61 per cent of young people in Egypt say that climate concerns are a deterrent to them having children.
The country’s economy has been very hard hit by cascading crises which have disrupted worldwide trade.
Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Cairo-based Al-Azhar Mosque, appointed a female advisor for the first time since the institution was established in 970 CE, local state-run Ahram online reported.
A Cairo state security prosecutor ordered this week the detention of Egyptian artist Amir Abdel-Ghani for 15 days, pending further investigation into “terrorism-related” charges, nine days after he was reportedly taken by unidentified men to an unknown location believed to be the state security agency, according to his lawyer.
Authorities in Egypt have shown no genuine will to acknowledge, let alone address, the country’s deep-rooted human rights crisis despite launching a National Human Rights Strategy one year ago. Instead, they have continued to stifle freedoms and commit crimes under international law in the lead up to the United Nations …
Marsad Egypt Egyptian Security Sector Observatory