Egypt’s Public Prosecution on Tuesday imprisoned 16 people for four days over blocking a road in protest against the results of the parliamentary elections in Qena governorate.

Egyptian police have arrested at least one of the three alleged perpetrators involved in the killing of a young woman in a Cairo suburb on Tuesday night in an incident that sparked anger across the Middle Eastern country.

Egyptians have many reasons to protest and little space to do so. But over several days in late September, something new happened. In villages and towns stretching from Damietta in the north to Luxor and Aswan in the south, small but widespread street protests erupted predominately in some of the …

Egyptian authorities have arrested 1,943 persons since protests started on 20 September, according to human rights lawyer Khaled Ali.

Egypt’s Ministry of Interior has refused to hand over the body of one of the political prisoners executed over the weekend, allegedly because he was of unknown parentage.

Human Rights Watch are calling on the Egyptian government to investigate the death of a young man who died in police custody just before the outbreak of the 20 September demonstrations.

Independent journalists in Egypt are being “crushed like grains”, a women’s rights group said, in a statement calling for the urgent release of journalist Basma Mostafa.

Journalist Basma Mostafa went missing on Saturday while doing reporting in Luxor, the independent news website Al-Manassa reported in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Amnesty International has urged the Egyptian authorities to release hundreds of people it said were arrested during anti-government protests last month.

The Luxor village of Awamiyah has been under an effective siege for several days in the wake of the tensions and protests that engulfed the area after a police officer killed 38-year-old Ewais Abdel Hamid al-Rawy, an employee at the Luxor International Hospital and father of two children, in front …