Today marks 10 years since the start of Egypt’s January 25 revolution.
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Egypt army arrests officers suspected of embezzlement
Egyptian security services have recently arrested a number of army officers over illegal profiteering from state-funded projects, according to the London-based newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
Read More »Egypt sentences 23 Muslim Brotherhood members to 5 years in prison
Egypt’s court of cassation yesterday sentenced 23 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to five years in prison and acquitted five others.
Read More »Egyptian police arrest cartoonist on 10th anniversary of uprising
Rights groups have called for the immediate release of an Egyptian cartoonist who wrote on Facebook he was being arrested shortly after posting online a video tribute to the country’s 2011 uprising on the 10th anniversary of the first mass demonstrations which overthrew longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak.
Read More »UK must stop supplying Egypt military regime with arms due to post-Arab Spring violence: CAAT
The UK government must end its arms sales and support for the Egyptian military regime due to massive human rights violations, the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) said on Monday.
Read More »Italy calls on Egypt to cooperate with Regeni murder investigation
Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Monday urged Egypt to cooperate with prosecutors seeking to try four Egyptian security officers over the torture and murder of an Italian student in Cairo.
Read More »Biden suspends Trump’s immunity for ex-Egypt PM
The new US administration of Joe Biden has suspended the request of immunity for former Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem El Beblawi in a torture case brought to courts by US citizen Mohamed Soltan, the legal reporter for the Washington Post Spencer Hsu tweeted on Saturday.
Read More »Honeymoon is Over: The Biden Administration Tells Cairo to ‘Brush up’ on Its Human Rights
The Biden administration did not waste time rolling back some of the decisions of the former President Donald Trump. The US Department of Justice announced, on Saturday, the suspension of the immunity previoulsy extended to former Prime Minister Hazem Al-Beblawy, in a torture lawsuit filed against him by Egyptian-American Human …
Read More »‘Utterly deplorable’: Egypt’s ‘abusive’ prisons denounced
Amnesty International decried Egyptian prison conditions on Monday, 10 years after the Arab Spring revolution began in the country.
Read More »Islamic State kills 1, wounds 3 in Sinai
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack that Egyptian security forces said killed one security officer and wounded three other people in the Sinai Peninsula early Thursday.
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