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Amnesty says Egypt trying to cover up rights violations

By Foreign Policy – Egypt’s shaky record: Egypt has used its new human rights strategy to camouflage its brutal crackdown on critics and political repression, Amnesty [...]

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Egypt Feels Pain of Global Disruptions Wrought by War and Pandemic

By The New York Times – The country’s economy has been very hard hit by cascading crises which have disrupted worldwide trade. When the state-owned factory where Hesham el-Atar worked [...]

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The fire you cannot put out: Imbaba’s churches and the threats they can’t extinguish

By Mada Masr – The St. Demiana Church is only distinguishable from surrounding buildings in the neighborhood of Imbaba by the crosses on its windows and the security kiosk and metal gate [...]

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U.S. to withhold $130 m. of military aid to Egypt over human rights

By: Reuters – The Biden administration has decided to withhold $130 million of foreign military aid to Egypt over its failure to fulfill human rights conditions, U.S. officials said on [...]

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Coptic student dismissed from university over “derision of Islam”

“Misr (Egypt) University of Science and Technology” dismissed Mina Atallah Bakhit, a student in the faculty of medicine, for “derision of Islam.” According to the published statement by the [...]

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Egypt’s journalism crackdown continues despite ‘national dialogue’

By Al-Monitor – The Egyptian authorities’ crackdown on Mada Masr has been criticized by civil society groups. The Egyptian authorities have charged four journalists from Mada Masr, [...]

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The Coptic Church appeals for the return of “Shenouda” to his family

By Al-Hurra – The Coptic Church in Egypt appealed to the authorities to return the child Shenouda to his family, noting at the same time to acknowledge the legal violation that the family [...]

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A Long-Lost Branch of the Nile Helped in Building Egypt’s Pyramids

By : The New York Times – A new study confirms a long-held theory that builders used the river to transport the heavy blocks that make up the ancient wonders. For 4,500 years, the [...]

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Saudi woman sentenced to 45 years’ jail over tweets

By FT- A US-based advocacy group said a Saudi Arabian court had sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for “using the internet to tear the [country’s] social fabric”, weeks after another citizen [...]

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Two Copts shot dead in Sinai by Islamist jihadis

By Watani – Two Coptic men: Salama Moussa Waheeb and his son Hany were shot (*) dead today (Aug. 30), allegedly at the hands of Islamic Jihadis, commonly termed as Daesh (Islamic State IS). [...]