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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 [...]

By Gamal Essam El-Din -Ahram Online – This is an incredible report. The Egyptian Parliament says to the British Parliament that their report on Islam is totally wrong. They even say that [...]

By International Christian Concern – ICC Note: A new law in Egypt is raising major concerns for non-governmental organizations who say the law will effectively eradicate civil society. The [...]

By POMED – Member of Parliament and chairman of the Egyptian Democratic Party Ehab Mansour announced [Ar] on Wednesday in a press conference that he is rescinding his approval from the NGO [...]

By Abdelrahman Eyad –  Al-Monitor – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a law on the construction and restoration of churches on Sept. 28, nearly a month after it had [...]