The Egyptian army is doubling the size of a buffer zone along the border with the Gaza Strip, an operation that will involve the destruction of 1,220 more homes and the eviction of residents, military officials said Thursday. The operation will expand the existing 500 meter (yard) buffer zone in[…]
The family of jailed Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste have applied to have him deported from Egypt, describing it as their “best option” after a court ordered a retrial for him and two of his colleagues. Greste, along with colleagues Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed, has been imprisoned[…]
A year after three Al-Jazeera English journalists were arrested in Egypt, they and their families are pleading for justice and an end to their ordeal. The unprecedented arrest and prosecution of Australian Peter Greste, Egyptian-Canadian Mohammed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohammed sent a chill through the media in Egypt. They[…]
Egyptian prosecutors have referred a writer to a criminal trial on charges of showing contempt for Islam in a tweet allegedly criticizing ritual slaughtering, state-run newspaper al-Ahram reported online Saturday. The referral comes in response to a lawsuit filed by a lawyer against Fatima Naoot, accusing her of defaming Islam[…]
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday ratified a law finalising the electoral constituencies, his office said, paving the way for much-awaited parliamentary elections. Electing a new parliament is a key step in a roadmap announced by the army after it ousted Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first freely elected president,[…]
Egyptian authorities on Saturday released 51 Palestinians who had been detained in the North Sinai city of El-Arish after they attempted to travel to Europe by taking boats from the Egyptian coast. Chief of the Palestinian community in the North Sinai region Kamal al-Khatib told Ma’an that the group had[…]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he supported Egypt’s crackdown on tunnels linking the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to the Sinai Peninsula to protect itself from fighters, according to a media report. “We have supported all the precautionary measures taken by the Egyptian authorities to close the tunnels and stop the[…]
Prominent Doha-based Islamic scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi has said that he is “stunned” by a new warrant for his arrest that was issued by Interpol, seeking to hold him accountable for offenses committed in Egypt years ago. On Friday, Interpol published a notice on behalf on Egyptian authorities accusing[…]
Egypt’s prosecutor general Monday referred to trial 71 students of the prestigious Al-Azhar University on charges of joining the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and holding illegal protests, a judicial official said. Hundreds of students have been tried in civilian courts after violence on campuses, bastions of pro-Islamist activists since the army’s[…]
Egypt’s former president Hosny Mubarak, cleared of murder charges last week, has suffered an unspecified health problem, his backers said Friday. “He suffered a sudden health crisis, but he is fine now,” a pro-Mubarak Facebook page said without giving details. The comment came shortly after private Egyptian broadcaster Sada al-Balad[…]
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