After she spent more than 1,000 days in prison for defending a woman’s right to drive, Saudi authorities recently released activist Loujain al-Hathloul.

Political science professor Hazem Hosny was released from prison by the State Security Prosecution on Monday after 17 months in remand detention. According to lawyer Khaled Ali, he has been ordered to remain under house arrest as a condition of his release.

The hugely popular audio-chat app Clubhouse has come under attack by pro-government figures in Egypt for facilitating “secret” conversations between dissidents.

Pushed out of south Bir al-Abd and facing tighter security measures in the east of the peninsula, Province of Sinai militants have been on the ropes in recent months.

The Egyptian Ministry of Interior has recently granted citizenship to three stateless individuals who were born in the south Sinai Peninsula.

The government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is harassing and intimidating the families of activists in the United States, targeting at least four families since August, a coalition of human rights groups said Friday.

In January 2016, 14-year-old Mohamed was staying up late studying for midterm exams. One night, unidentified security forces burst into his family’s apartment, stormed his bedroom and upended his desk, driving him away in an unmarked microbus.

The Egyptian parliament is scrambling to respond and deal with criticism by the US Congress regarding human rights violations in Egypt.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has said that the Egyptian people have the right to express their opinions and objections, but only if they are “valid opposition”. Sisi made his comment at the inauguration of the Integrated Medical Complex in Ismailia Governorate.

Population growth is a “national security issue,” President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in a public address on Tuesday.