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By Patrick Poole – PJMedia Just three weeks after a suicide bomber killed 27 people, mostly women and children, in an attack on the main Coptic cathedral near Cairo comes a new attack in [...]

By Hadeer El-Mahdawy – Ahram Online Egypt’s parliament is expected to discuss a long-awaited draft law on cyber-crime in January, MP Ahmed Badawy told Ahram Online, giving the first [...]

By Mada Masr – Prominent journalist Ibrahim Eissa announced the termination of his TV show “Ma’ Ibrahim Eissa” (With Ibrahim Eissa) on Sunday, which was previously broadcast on the [...]

By Peter Hessler – The New Yorker President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has unwittingly revealed more about his country’s political structures than anybody could have imagined. The Egyptian [...]

Al Monitor – “I want to tell you that we’ve been concerned with controlling the media from the very first day the army took over power in 2011,” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is [...]

By Middle East Monitor – West Cairo prosecution has accused a police officer and nine non-commissioned officers from Al-Amiriah Police Station of “torturing to death” charges, in relation [...]

By The Guardian – Human rights activists in Egypt have reacted angrily to the arrest of prominent women’s rights advocate Azza Soliman, saying it marked a “chilling escalation” of pressure [...]

By Amr Hamzawy – The Washington Post – Last week, an overwhelming majority of the Egyptian parliament passed repressive legislation regulating nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), [...]

By Mada Masr – Egypt’s Parliament hastily approved a new NGO law on Tuesday, just a day after the State Council concluded it has no indications of unconstitutionality. Parliamentarian and [...]

Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Al-Ahram – It’s perfectly normal for a law to be drafted and tabled by parliamentarians—the constitution states that bills can be submitted to the House by the government [...]