The International Union of Muslim Scholars condemned the indiscriminate arrests and torture in Egyptian prisons especially those against women, scholars, journalists and youth. In a statement, the Union called...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has confirmed that the complaint filed by the Freedom & Justice Party last year on behalf of the constitutional Government of Egypt is still...

A spokesperson for Tunisia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has accused the families of two Libyan citizens currently jailed in Tunisia of being involved in the kidnapping of two diplomats from...

A study conducted by Tomouh program in cooperation with the Egyptian Food Bank, the Armed Forces and PepsiCo Company revealed that the number of school dropouts across Egypt has...

The African Union’s Peace and Security Council rejected the union’s participation in monitoring the upcoming presidential elections in Egypt. The PSC recommended Monday that the AU does not dispatch...

Pope Tawadros II of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church supports a planned military operation on Libya, sources close to the Pope told Elshaab newspaper. According to the sources, the...

A report issued by the Desert Center for Studies and Consulting indicated that tensions are expected to rise between the Mauritanian Islamists and the government in the near future....

The Egyptian authorities have arrested 144 Palestinian and Syrian refugees who were, it is believed, trying to migrate to Europe, the Action Group for Palestinians in Syria has said....

Yahya Hamid, President Morsi’s Minister of Investment, has said that the anti-coup forces count not on any foreign factor but principally on the awareness and determination of the Egyptian...

Day after day, and as the date of the presidential elections in Egypt approaches, power struggle within the Egyptian military establishment intensifies. According to information circulating at the highest...

Brother of Mohamed Sultan, a detained American-Egyptian activist on hunger strike for more than 70 days, said his brother’s health is deteriorating and that he fears for his life....

Despite issuing a decree designating the Muslim Brotherhood “a terrorist organisation”, Dr. Hazem Al-Beblawi, the former Prime Minister, has described this decree as illegal saying: “This decision is a...

A number of Egyptian activists and movements announced they would hold a referendum on the army-backed roadmap and parallel elections coinciding with the upcoming presidential elections slated for May...

Dr Khaled Abdelrahman, member of the doctors’ strike committee at the Egyptian Doctors Syndicate said in a phone interview with Al-Jazeera Saturday that the strike will continue until the...

An Egyptian judge offered apologies to officers accused of shooting protesters to death during the January 25 revolution. Before announcing their acquittal, Judge Hassan Eissa told the officers: “you...

For the first time since the July 3 coup, thousands of Egyptian prisoners announced they would join an “uprising” against the politicization of justice in post-coup Egypt. In a...

The Egyptian military-appointed minister of transitional justice slammed the January 25 revolution as “a phenomenon” that fragmented the state and spread “double-citizenship”. In an interview with Tahrir channel on...

The Egyptian ministry of interior said Friday it arrested 29 Morsi supporters during anti-coup protests held in 5 governorates. According to a statement by MOI, police forces dealt firmly...

A lawyer in the defense team of ousted President Mohamed Morsi said in press statements that he expects defendants in the “Grand Espionage” case to be sentenced to death...

A coalition of Sudanese opposition parties has frozen the membership of the Popular Congress Party, led by Hassan Al-Turabi, for accepting an invitation for unconditional comprehensive dialogue with Prar...

The Egyptian army has announced the destruction of five new tunnels under the border with the Gaza Strip. A security official told the German news agency that as part...

Algerian television has broadcast footage showing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika casting his vote in the presidential election from a wheelchair. He has been sick since suffering from a stroke in...

The South African police intervened on Sunday to prevent clashes between two rallies in the capital of Johannesburg, one organised by pro-Palestine supporters and the other by pro-Israel supporters,...

Hundreds of Egyptian political activists from a number of different youth movements organised a human chain in central Cairo on Wednesday, demanding for the interim government to abolish the...

American scholar Dalia Mogahed predicted that Al-Sisi will fail to unite Egyptians if he wins the presidential elections. In an interview with Aljazeera, Mogahed argued that one of the...

An Egyptian court sentenced 119 Mohamed Morsi supporters to three years in jail on charges of illegally protesting last October 6. On October 6, 2013, more than 50 protesters...

The judicial panel hearing the lawsuit that calls for labelling Qatar a “terror-sponsoring country” stepped down from the court, citing “uneasiness”, judicial sources said. The case has been adjourned...

The Cairo Criminal Court convicted Wednesday the Salafi politician Hazem Abu Ismail of fraud and sentenced him to seven years in prison, Reuters news agency reported. The court charged...

Former Muslim Brotherhood international relations coordinator Youssef Nada said in an interview with Al-Jazeera that he expects Al-Sisi’s regime to last for a maximum of six months. The Egyptian...

The Egyptian Observatory for Rights and Freedoms (EORF) has condemned the arbitrary decision of Al-Azhar University to expel 51 students for taking part in anti-coup protests. According to the...

A Moroccan Criminal Court sentenced on Tuesday a British man to 20 years in prison on charges of attempting to kidnap and rape three minors, a judicial source reported....

A court in Egypt has decreed that it has no jurisdiction to rule on a case against journalists supportive of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and other exiles. The defendants...