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Egypt’s Failed Revolution

By By Peter Hessler - The New YorkerPresident Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has unwittingly revealed more about his country’s political structures than anybody could have imagined.The...

- December 28, 2016 0

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Why some are worried about Egypt’s new media law

Al Monitor“I want to tell you that we’ve been concerned with controlling the media from the very first day the army took over power...

- December 23, 2016 0

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Egyptian police tortured man ‘to death’ – prosecutor

By Middle East MonitorWest Cairo prosecution has accused a police officer and nine non-commissioned officers from Al-Amiriah Police Station of “torturing to death” charges,...

- December 20, 2016 0

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Arrest of leading Egyptian feminist Azza Soliman sparks anger

By The GuardianHuman rights activists in Egypt have reacted angrily to the arrest of prominent women’s rights advocate Azza Soliman, saying it marked a...

- December 7, 2016 0

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New NGO legislation takes Egypt down a dangerous path

By Amr Hamzawy - The Washington PostLast week, an overwhelming majority of the Egyptian parliament passed repressive legislation regulating nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), with virtually...

- December 7, 2016 0

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Egypt’s parliament passes new NGO law

By Mada MasrEgypt’s Parliament hastily approved a new NGO law on Tuesday, just a day after the State Council concluded it has no indications...

- November 29, 2016 0

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The setback of Egypt’s new NGO law

Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Al-AhramIt’s perfectly normal for a law to be drafted and tabled by parliamentarians—the constitution states that bills can be submitted to...

- November 25, 2016 0

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Egypt’s parliament responds to UK Commons’ ‘defence of political Islam’

By Gamal Essam El-Din -AhramOnlineThis is an incredible report. The Egyptian Parliament says to the British Parliament that their report on Islam is totally wrong....

- November 25, 2016 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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