Apart from Safty, nine members of the leftist Bread and Freedom Party are currently detained.
How Egypt’s foreign policy sailed through the difficult events of the summer of 2013
“I wanted to live through the military coup. Now, after all I’ve seen, I think I must have been mad.” Thus Youssef —not his real name — began our interview.…
The "trial of the century” — in which former President Hosni Mubarak, his sons, the former interior minister and six of his aides are accused of killing protesters, making illicit…
In a report documenting state violence following the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, the New-York based Human Rights Watch concluded that the…
One protester was killed in Haram Street in Giza during protests organized Brotherhood supporters on the first anniversary of the ouster of…
On Thursday, Cairo witnessed another series of small-scale bombings on the day that marks the one-year anniversary of the ouster of the…
The Giza Criminal Court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 13 other high-profile Islamists to death on Thursday. The ruling…
A year on, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has published a report (June 2014) documenting state responsibility for the violence that…
The Alexandria Criminal Court upheld the death sentence handed down to Mahmoud Hassan on March 29 after he was found guilty of…
«Continuous political turmoil since January 2011, and the resulting decline in the annual growth rate to a near-recession level, have turned many of the Egyptian economy's…»
«One sad truth about politics in Egypt today — and there are many — is the extraordinary abundance of hypocrisy. From revolutionaries to Salafis, the…»
«On the anniversary of the demise of one form of political authority, I find myself contemplating the very nature of the new regime that is currently…»
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