Egypt has extended the pre-trial detention of three TikTok comedians after their online sketch about a prison visit had gone viral, a lawyer representing them told AFP on Monday.
Egypt: Human rights groups warn of ‘torture and abuse’ at Badr prison complex
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Egypt jails activists for years on ‘terrorism’: rights groups
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Egypt: Release Prison Population Figures
The Egyptian authorities should increase transparency by making essential figures about the country’…
Egypt model prison rife with abuses, inmates’ families and activists say
A new prison, which Egypt touted as a model for reform and which holds some of its most prominent pr…
India/ Egypt: Ongoing human rights crisis in both countries must be addressed
The Indian and Egyptian authorities must address the ongoing human rights and impunity crises in the…
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Paralysis hits Egypt market
Buying and selling in the Egyptian market have halted with the depreciation of the Egyptian pound against the US dollar. On Friday, the exchange rate against the dollar reached 30.2174 Egyptian pounds for purchase and 30.3129 for sale, according to the Central Bank of Egypt.
Egypt: Why physicians are quitting, leaving hospitals high and dry
Egyptian doctors are resigning en masse from the nation’s government-run health system, highlighting the growing discontent with chronically low salaries and underfunded hospitals.
12 years after the revolution, Egypt is no better than Syria and Iraq
The Mubarak regime was the most stable of the four military regimes that have ruled Egypt in recent times. The regime witnessed no violent demonstrations thanks to the iron grip that Mubarak maintained for 30 years. He surrounded himself with an elite of political, economic and media veterans to keep …
Has Saudi Arabia abandoned the Sisi regime?
In a big surprise, the Saudi writer, Turki Al-Hamad, who is close to the decision-making circles in his country, launched an attack on the Egyptian regime’s policy through a series of tweets he posted on his Twitter account, which were reported by Arab and international media.
Will Egypt’s economic crisis be the end of Sisi?
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi is facing mounting economic and political pressures. Far from signalling that salvation is at hand, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) $3 billion loan announced in mid-December highlighted the challenges ahead and the limited assistance Egypt will receive to meet them.