Egyptian authorities today released Al Jazeera news reporter Mahmoud Hussein under caution after detaining him for 29 months. His daughter, Az-Zahra, confirmed his release on Facebook.

An Egyptian court has referred the case of six alleged Muslim Brotherhood members convicted of terrorism to the Grand Mufti, Egypt’s top religious authority, for a non-binding opinion on their execution.

The Egypt Public Prosecution Office has decided to perform another autopsy on the body of Zaki Mubarak, the Palestinian man who was arrested in Turkey on spying charges and died in mysterious circumstances, with Ankara alleging his suicide and his family accusing Turkey of killing him.

An Egyptian criminal court yesterday suspended the trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s two sons, Alaa and Gamal, in the case known in the media as the “manipulation of the stock exchange” until the settling of a request filed for changing the court’s panel.

Priest Makkar Saad Makkar was shot inside St Mark’s Church located in Shubra El-Khaima district by a church guard over “a personal dispute,” according to a statement released by Qalioubiya security directorate.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced two defendants to death by hanging, two others to life imprisonment, four others to 10 years in prison and two others to three years in prison over a terrorist attack in Helwan on a Christian church and store that left 10 people dead.

The Press Syndicate had followed with a deep concern the storming of the Sada El-Balad news website on Tuesday which resulted in the wounding of three fellow journalists, said the syndicate’s head, Diaa Rashwan, on Tuesday.

Egyptian Councilor Ihab Abdel Aaty and member of the delegation to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) in its 2019 edition has said the Egyptian state has taken many necessary measures to protect workers in the exercise of their labor rights, ensure freedom of trade union activities, …

As protests spread across the Arab world in 2011, Egypt became a beacon of hope in the region. But this glimmer of light quickly dimmed, rights groups say, pointing to a widespread crackdown on dissent, with recent constitutional amendments only deepening the country’s human rights woes.

Egyptian authorities have released Muna Mahmoud Ibrahim, known as Umm Zubeida, after detaining her for one year, rights activists said yesterday.