An Egyptian court sentenced one man to death and 11 to life imprisonment after convicting them of joining a "terrorist group" linked to the Islamic State group, state media reported Wednesday. The same counter-terrorism court in Cairo also handed down three 15-year...
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Egypt keeps social media influencers in prison, along with 60,000 political prisoners
Egypt has extended the pre-trial detention of three TikTok comedians after their online sketch about a prison visit had gone viral, a lawyer representing them told AFP on Monday. Mohamed Hossam al-Din, Basma Hegazy and Ahmed Tarek were arrested last month after...
Egypt’s Al-Azhar wants boycott of Swedish and Dutch products after desecration of Koran
Egypt's Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world's most prestigious educational institution, has called for the boycott of Swedish and Dutch products after far-right protesters destroyed Korans in those countries. Al-Azhar, in a statement issued Wednesday, called on "Muslims...
Egypt: Under pressure from striking lawyers, regime releases jailed attorneys
Members of the Egyptian Bar Association on Sunday called off a days-long strike held in protest against the jailing of six colleagues, a statement said. The association had announced Thursday an open-ended strike to condemn their colleagues' sentencing to two years in...
Egyptian regime releases businessmen Safwan and Seif El-Dine Thabet after 2 years in pretrial detention
Two leading Egyptian businessmen have been released after some two years in pretrial detention on terrorism-related charges, their family said Saturday. "My father Safwan Thabet and my brother Seif el-Din Thabet are with us," Safwan's daughter Mariam wrote on social...
Egyptian lawyers go on strike in solidarity with jailed colleagues
The Egyptian Bar Association announced Thursday an "unlimited" strike to condemn the imprisonment of six colleagues for a court brawl with three clerks earlier this month. "We are immediately suspending all of our activities, we will stop appearing before the courts...
MENA region more vulnerable to Covid-19 with the start of Ramadan
The World Health Organization expressed concern Wednesday that the Covid-19 pandemic could worsen in the Middle East...
Egypt: Journalists released from prison
Egyptian photojournalist Hossam el-Sayed and his wife Solafa Magdy, an independent journalist, have been released...
Egypt bus-truck crash kills 20: officials
Cairo, April 14, 2021 (AFP) - Twenty people were killed Wednesday in Egypt when a bus collided with a truck carrying...
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