Egypt’s Court of Cassation yesterday ordered Mubarak-era minister of Information, Safwat El-Sherif, to be held in custody pending the hearing of an appeal he filed against a three-year prison sentence, local media reported.

A member of Egypt’s medical union has appeared at the Supreme State Security Prosecutor’s office for investigation after being arrested on 28 June.

A doctor arrested after writing an article about Egypt’s fragile health system. A pharmacist picked up from work after posting online about a shortage of protective gear. An editor taken from his home after questioning official coronavirus figures. A pregnant doctor arrested after a colleague used her phone to report …

Egyptian authorities have arrested another TikTok influencer after a lawyer accused her of prostitution. Ashraf Farhat said Manar Samy was sharing immoral videos with the aim of attracting attention and earning money.

Egypt’s Attorney General Hamada El-Sawy has discussed the case of murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni with his Italian counterpart for the first time in six months, The New Arab’s Arabic-language service reported Thursday.

The Cairo Cassation Court has reduced the sentence of Central Security Forces officer Yassin Saleh to seven years, for his role in the 2015 death of socialist activist Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh.

Egyptian news outlet Al-Manassa confirmed on Friday morning that its editor-in-chief, Nora Younis, had been released on bail from Maadi police department, 26 hours after her arrest during a raid on its offices.

Sanaa Seif, a film editor and the youngest sister of imprisoned activist and software blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah, was imprisoned by the State Security Prosecution on Tuesday, which ordered her to be held for 15 days in remand detention on charges of incitement of terrorist crimes, spreading false news …

Since the first official coronavirus case was announced in Egypt, at least nine journalists have been imprisoned, according to the Freedom Twitter account for political prisoners.

Prominent Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif has been abducted outside the prosecutor-general’s office in Cairo, according to a relative.