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Parliament expels MP Sadat for criticism of human rights record

By Egypt Independent - Reuters -Egypt's parliament on Monday kicked out a prominent legislator with a reputation for being critical of the government because...

- March 1, 2017 0

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Amid Egypt’s Repression, Few Alternatives

By Eric Trager – Foreign Affairs - Six years ago today, tens of thousands of Egyptians descended on downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square demanding “bread, freedom,...

- January 25, 2017 0

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Egypt’s parliament, judiciary face off against each other

By Sayed Elhadidi - Al MonitorThe 2014 Egyptian Constitution guarantees the independence of the judiciary and protects it from the interference of any other...

- January 13, 2017 0

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Press Law in Egypt Diminishes Hopes for Independent Media

By Khaled Dawoud - MENA- Atlantic Council -Shortly after unprecedented jail terms were issued against leading members of Egypt’s Press Syndicate, President AbdelFattah al-Sisi approved...

- January 11, 2017 0

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Fate of Egypt’s NGO Law Remains in Question

By Pomed -On November 29, Egypt’s parliament approved a restrictive new law to govern the country's NGO community, which decried the law as an...

- January 11, 2017 0

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Islamist Murders Christian for Selling Alcohol in Alexandria

By Patrick Poole – PJMediaJust three weeks after a suicide bomber killed 27 people, mostly women and children, in an attack on the main...

- January 4, 2017 0

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Is the government watching Egyptians or watching over them: Egypt’s Cyber Crime law in January

By Hadeer El-Mahdawy - Ahram OnlineEgypt's parliament is expected to discuss a long-awaited draft law on cyber-crime in January, MP Ahmed Badawy told Ahram...

- January 3, 2017 0

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Prominent journalist Ibrahim Eissa terminates TV show after threats, legal complaints

By Mada MasrProminent journalist Ibrahim Eissa announced the termination of his TV show “Ma’ Ibrahim Eissa” (With Ibrahim Eissa) on Sunday, which was previously broadcast...

- January 3, 2017 0

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Egypt: Copt and son killed in IS attack September 7, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesPrayers in Deir El-Garnouse Coptic church, near Al-Minya in Upper Egypt, after Islamic State opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts, killing at least 28 people in May 2017. A Christian father and son were killed by suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on 30 August. The two Copts, Salama […]
Egypt: Father and son stabbed in latest attack on Copts August 12, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesCopts in Egypt have been targeted in a string of attacks this year. An elderly Coptic Christian and his son who run an off-license shop in Giza, central Egypt, were hospitalized after they were severely injured in an attack. Joseph Israel, 70, was sitting outside his shop in the Omrania district in […]
Egypt: Copt stabbed seven times by neighbour who’d lured in his son March 24, 2022
An Egyptian Christian was stabbed multiple times when he tried to rescue his son who was held against his will by a Muslim neighbour in Alexandria. On the night of 15 February, Magdy Fathy Shehata Awad Allah, deacon at the Coptic Orthodox Church in the northeast of Alexandria and a human rights activist, was rushed […]
Egypt: Coptic Christian imprisoned for 5 years for ‘blasphemy’ February 9, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesA police man enters a prison on the outskirts of Egypt’s capital Cairo. A Coptic Christian has been sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, or EIPR, which represented him during his trial. On 29 January the Cairo Economic Court found Marco Gerges […]

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