Speaking on the national dialogue, a recently announced public consultation process that is billed to involve all political actors in the country, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appeared on Saturday to warn off prospective participants who intend to criticize the state’s performance.

An online video released by the youngest son of Egypt’s late autocrat Hosni Mubarak in which he declared that his family had been cleared of corruption charges by the ‘EU courts and beyond’ has sparked mixed reactions over the past hours.

The son of Egypt’s former president said Tuesday that he and family members were innocent of corruption charges made in international courts after the country’s 2011 popular uprising.

Several prominent opposition politicians who have been sidelined by the state in recent years made a high profile appearance at the annual Egyptian Family Iftar on Tuesday, where the president called for a yet-to-be-defined “national dialogue.”

Egyptian authorities on Thursday released a prominent political activist serving a four-year-sentence on terror charges that rights advocate have deemed baseless.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has pardoned several police officers convicted and jailed for torturing Egyptian civilians to death.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has pardoned a journalist who was jailed for “spreading false news”, along with more than 3,000 prisoners, local media and officials said on Wednesday.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has claimed he did not scheme against toppled former leader Mohamed Morsi, who died in an Egyptian courtroom in 2019, on Tuesday.

His Majesty King Abdullah, on Sunday in Cairo, met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and the deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued a decision to pardon a number of prisoners ahead of the Islamic Eid Al-Fitr and Sinai Liberation Day, according to the official gazette.