Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, Hossam Bahgat, has been called in for interrogation before Egypt’s public prosecution today over charges related to free expression.

Rights groups have called on Egypt to release a retired journalist who was detained last month on “terrorism” charges.

Egypt’s Attorney General Hamada el-Sawy handed over, Tuesday to the Italian Ambassador to Egypt Giampaolo Cantini two copies of the Prosecution’s documents in the Giulio Regeni’s murder case.

In a meeting with the Supreme Council of Judicial Bodies on Wednesday, it was announced in a historic decision that Egyptian women will be allowed to work in the State Council and the Public Prosecution as of the first of October of this year, Spokesman of the Presidency said in …

A little over three months after her acquittal by a Cairo Economic Appeals Court in a high profile morality case, TikTok influencer Haneen Hossam remains behind bars pending an investigation over “human trafficking” charges in a new case.

On Thursday, Nozha Misdemeanor Court, headed by Judge Amr Mukhtar, acquitted Chancellor Noha al-Imam al-Sheikh, a former administrative prosecutor, of assaulting a police officer at Cairo’s Heliopolis Court.

Egyptian authorities released journalists Solafa Magdy and her husband Hossam el-Sayyad on Wednesday after more than a year in pre-trial detention, which rights groups have condemned as an attack on free speech.

Egyptian prosecutors say they found gross negligence by railway employees to be behind a deadly train crash that caused public outcry across the country, adding that drugs were allegedly involved.

Egypt’s prosecution ordered on Tuesday the release of three defendants in the 2014 Fairmont gang rape case on LE 100,000 bail.

Women are to have a two-week window to apply for 40 to 50 mid-level positions within the State Council, but only those already employed by the State Lawsuits Authority and the Administrative Prosecution.