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By Declan Walsh – The New York Times – Shady Habash had been held without trial at a maximum-security prison for two years. His lawyer said the cause of death was unknown. CAIRO [...]

By WSJ – Shady Habash was one of thousands of artists and activists arrested in recent years as Abdel Fattah Al Sisi attempts to snuff out potential challenges to his rule. An Egyptian [...]

By POMED, On World Press Freedom Day of May 3, the international watchdog group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released its 2020 World Press Freedom Index. Unsurprisingly, the Middle East [...]

By: Reporters without Borders – Egypt ranks 166 out of 180 in the 2020 Press Freedom Index. The press freedom situation is becoming more and more alarming in Egypt, with frequent waves of raids [...]

By USCIRF – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 28, 2020 USCIRF Releases 2020 Annual Report with Recommendations for U.S. Policy  Finds Both Progress and Backsliding in Religious Freedom Conditions [...]

By International Christian Concern – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on April 21, 2020, Christian human rights activist Mary Fatima Mohammadi received a suspended [...]

By MEMRI – TV Clip No. 7937 Egyptian preacher Mohammed Al-Hefnawi Al-Ansari said in a video that he uploaded to his YouTube page on April 8, 2020 that the coronavirus pandemic is actually a [...]

  The Honorable James Risch Chairman Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate 483 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 2051 The Honorable Bob Menendez Ranking Member [...]

By Morning Star News – Six children and a pregnant woman were among nine people that Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed in north-central Nigeria Tuesday night (April 14), sources said. About a [...]

By MEMRI – In May 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said: “A short time ago they converted the Hagia Sophia from a mosque to a museum. Inshallah, after the election, we [...]