Democracy Meter says there has been a 25 percent increase in labor unrest in comparison to the same period last year.
The Agouza Criminal Court has sentenced 11 people to prison terms ranging between three and 12 years for “practicing, inciting and publicizing immoral practices,” reported the privately owned al-Watan newspaper.…
During a meeting with "representatives of Egyptian society" held earlier this month, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi claimed that Armed Forces had made progress in stabilizing North Sinai, forcing militants to…
Since North Sinai became a battleground for the fight between militant groups and the military three years ago, the city of Arish has managed to maintain a degree of normalcy.…
The labor minister of the only remaining Gulf country implementing a work sponsorship program declared during a visit to Egypt that sponsorship in Saudi Arabia no longer exists. In order…
Since the beginning of the academic year last fall, several student groups have voiced concerns about the impossibility of obtaining university permits for different activities. The trend is feared to further…
French President Francois Hollande is due to arrive in Cairo on Sunday for a two-day visit that is expected to include the signing of more arms deals between the two…
The Egyptian state appears poised to enter into renewed confrontation with some of Egypt’s best known rights organizations with the reopening of a 2011 case accusing them of operating without…
Mansoura University engineering student Abdallah Azmy was studying for his midterm exam a few weeks ago, when one of his friends took his mobile and cursed their college on Azmy’s…
In keeping with annual tradition, the April 6 Youth Movement tagged Facebook posts for its eighth anniversary, “the ninth launch.” But is this optimistic given the current state of the movement? With…
The Panama Papers leaks published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on Sunday included information on Pan World Investments, a company owned by Alaa Mubarak — son of…
The Egyptian government returned control of the Ministry of Manpower to the highly contentious state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) on Monday, reversing progress made in labor rights since the…
Shortly after a car bomb went off at the Cairo Security Directorate on January 24, 2014, footage from a nearby video surveillance camera was released that showed a white car…
A 50-member committee formed by Parliamentary Speaker Ali Abdel Aal to review the government program presented by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail to Parliament on Sunday raised questions about the mechanisms through…
Italian investigators examining the murder and torture of Italian student Giulio Regeni said the "case is not at all closed" on Friday, following…
Nancy Okail, former director of Freedom House's Egypt program and one of 43 defendants convicted of operating an organization and receiving funds from a foreign government without a license in…
“If you violate [police] rights, you have to expect that they will also violate other people’s rights.”
It is not quite clear what the sister of a man arrested on suspicion of being gay expected when she told the police authorities that her brother was HIV positive.…
Mona Mina, the renowned leader of the Doctors Syndicate, is back in the headlines as thousands of Egyptian doctors take action against increasing police intimidation at public hospitals — but…
Local press in Egypt has been circulating numerous unconfirmed reports about the cause of Italian student Giulio Regeni’s brutal death in recent weeks. From Regeni being involved with Italian intelligence services to…
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