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Excerpts: Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali who "is a part of Egypt’s delegation headed by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi that is partaking in the United Nations General Assembly, denied that the ministry received directives from any international, regional or local bodies on the work of...
Salwa Mehrez, one of the 100 prisoners pardoned on Wednesday who had been detained in the Itihadiya Palace protests case, had been freed Saturday Sept 26, after her release had been delayed by prison authorities. The article provides also other names. Ragia Omran from the National Council for Human...
Emad Hassan, a prisoner at the Tora detention facility, died on Friday in what family members and activists have called wilful neglect by prison officials in providing adequate medical care to prisoners. The comments come in light of  a recent National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) report which...
Coptic Christians in an Egyptian village have been under attack by Muslim neighbours since Sunday over a property row which first began in 2012, according to persecution charity International Christian Concern (ICC). Cornelis Hulsman: the entire story is based on one two Christian sources in the...
President al-Sisi defended the creation of a wide buffer zone between Gaza and Egypt. In recent weeks, Egypt is carrying out digging work in the area that Palestinians believe is intended to flood the last remaining tunnels between Gaza and the Sinai.  Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas accused Egypt of...
Excerpts: "WASHINGTON — Nearly 30,000 foreign recruits have now poured into Syria, many to join the Islamic State, a doubling of volunteers in just the past 12 months and stark evidence that an international effort to tighten borders, share intelligence and enforce antiterrorism laws is not...
The author writes about Russian military involvement in Syria and discusses different countries in the region, including Egypt. He claims Islamic radicals in Egypt are "still calling for a religious dictatorship along with violence against Israel and non-Moslems in particular." He then claims "...
President al-Sisi said that a worsening terrorist threat has led to "ferocious war" in his country and some countries "sliding into a vicious cycle of failure." - Link connects you only to the newspaper website as of 03.03.2016-
Egyptian security forces on Friday killed nine militants who took part in a bomb attack, that had been claimed by the Islamic State Group, at the Italian consulate in Cairo in July, the Interior Ministry said. The attack in July resulted in the death of one person.  
The creation of a buffer zone between Egypt and Gaza required the demolition of more than 3,200 buildings [HRW report] between July 2013 and August 2015, resulting in the displacement and eviction of "thousands of families." For Egyptian authorities this was needed to maintain security in the area...

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