Mohamed El-Baradei, the former vice president of Egypt, has said that the key to a solution in Egypt is the establishment of a government that accommodates everyone and is...
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News The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has started a media campaign and diplomatic movement targeting Arab and Western countries regarding the ongoing violence in Jerusalem, accusing the...
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Seven human rights organisations decided not to take part in the UN session to review Egypt’s human rights file yesterday. The organisations decided not to send representatives or to...
Ahmed Bedier, an eyewitness at Rabaa and President of United Voices for America, lost his brother to the massacre in August 2013. When he went to pick up Amir’s...
Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi said that his country plans to take further measures to fully evacuate the Sinai border with Gaza and that the Egyptian government will pay...
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News Human Rights Watch has called for the review at the UN Human Rights Council to condemn “the most dramatic reversal of human rights in Egypt’s modern history under President...
The twentieth session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group has concluded its review of Egypt’s human rights situation which was held in Geneva. The...
There was hardly any mention of the Rabaa Al-Adawiya massacre in Egypt’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN today. Only Iceland remarked on the massacre saying it is...
Saudi Arabia and the UAE paid tribute to Egypt’s efforts to tackle challenges to its security and for ensuring the rule of law. During Egypt’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR)...
The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has received a copy of the original 53 page submission by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) of Egypt to...
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News The United States and other countries on Wednesday slammed the human rights situation in Egypt at a United Nations meeting reviewing the country’s record for the first time since...
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Listen to what this Egyptian general said about the dangers of counter-insurgency in the Sinai peninsula. “I’m sure you can imagine that as an army officer I could come...
The Tunisian government is calling on Libyans residing in Tunisia not to engage in any political activity without first informing the authorities in advance, noting, at the same time,...
Omar Al-Hassi, the prime minister of the Libyan government in Tripoli, stressed that elections were necessary to put an end to the chaos that has been plaguing the country...
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Tuesday dismissed media reports that some of its members were arrested by Egyptian authorities over suspected involvement in a deadly attack in the country’s...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed that he refused to attend a meeting with Egyptian President and coup leader Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi on the margins of the UN General Assembly...
CitiBank in Egypt has written to its customers asking them to withdraw their savings and deposits and close their accounts before December 7 ahead of the bank liquidating its...
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News Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said that all its members are part of the Anti-Coup National Alliance; they are sticking to their principles and will never recognise the coup government. In...
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News The Freedom Seekers Observatory published an info graphic showing the violations that have been carried out by Egyptian forces against university students for the first three weeks of the...
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I may not be able to provide a contrastive reading of the Tunisian elections after having read many conflicting visions and conclusions regarding the results of the elections. Some...
Qatar and Sudan signed a memorandum related to military cooperation between the two countries earlier today. The agreement was signed by Qatar’s Minister of Defence General Hamad bin Ali...
The disciplinary council of Egyptian judges yesterday suspended 56 judges for signing a statement supporting ousted President Mohamed Morsi during the Rabaa Al-Adawiya protests, state-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported. Two...
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News Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef Marzouki yesterday warned of the dangers of the return of the autocratic regime which supresses freedom, calling for the youth of Tunisian “not to waste...
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Tunisia Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir yesterday accused Israel of being behind the agreement signed by the head of the largest opposition party with the armed movements in the August. During...
Below is the text of the press statement released by ITN Solicitors, acting on behalf of Egypt’s Freedon & Justice Party. On 5 November 2014, Egypt is to have...
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced Yasser Ali, a presidential spokesman under ousted president Mohamed Morsi, for six months in jail after convicting him of hiding Hesham Qandil, Morsi’s...
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News Egypt’s prosecution on Saturday referred 34 people accused of “terrorism” to a military court, in the first application of a decision by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi that opened the door...
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The degree of madness and criminality attained by the coup regime is growing faster and more intense than we imagined. The people of Rafah living in the Egyptian city...
Egyptian authorities have kept the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip closed for the 8th day in a row, the Gaza Interior Ministry said Saturday. The ministry said...
Spokesman of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Joel Millman said on Friday that about 3,200 migrants died in the Mediterranean en-route to Europe this year. “An estimated 3,200...
p>Below is the transcript of the video. Read more about the 2 Egyptian who were killed by soldiers, after their torture and humiliation was recorded and uploaded to the...
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News Tunisian parties, which took part in national dialogue, unanimously agreed that the “upcoming president is authorised to choose the prime minister to form the government,” Secretary General of the...
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