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By Associated Press Egyptian security forces have arrested two journalists, including one sick with COVID-19, the latest step in a sweeping crackdown on news media during the pandemic, an [...]

By Amnesty International – The decisions by a “terrorism circuit” judges at the Cairo Criminal Court to extend – without respect for basic due process guarantees – the pre-trial detention [...]

By Samuel Tadros – The Washington Post – A few days ago, a revealing WhatsApp message popped up on my iPhone: “Egypt is defeating the conspiracy and saving the world.” The text that [...]

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 [...]

By Mina Abdelmalak –Reprinted from RealClearReligion – As the world struggles to fight back against the coronavirus pandemic, governments across the globe are searching for ways to [...]

By Heather Preston – Premier Christian News – It’s been reported that Christians in Pakistan have been denied access to emergency food relief distributed in response to the [...]

By Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights – We ask the Public Prosecution to do what is necessary and expected in these exceptional circumstances: release Patrick and the other remand [...]

By Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies – The signatory human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian government’s reckless refusal to release select groups of detainees for the sake [...]

By The Guardian – Egyptian authorities have forced a Guardian journalist to leave the country after she reported on a scientific study that said Egypt was likely to have many more [...]

The Investigative Project on Terrorism News – In last week’s Islamic State (ISIS) newsletter, the group referred to the COVID-19 pandemic as divine intervention intended to inflict [...]