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By Aya Nader Al-Monitor –  Despite failing to prevent terrorist attacks so far, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has made more promises to increase security in the wake of attacks on [...]

By Judith Miller – FOX News –  The Palm Sunday bombings of Coptic churches in Egypt are a tragedy for Egyptian Christians, the Middle East’s oldest and largest Christian community and [...]

By POMED  – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with numerous congressional leaders and members in Washington on Tuesday. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued a statement after [...]

By Dr. Henry Srebrnik, Professor of Political Science – University of Prince Edward Island –  As turbulent a country as ever, Egypt, in the last six years, has seen an uprising topple [...]

By Bel Trew – The Times (UK) Two Isis fighters wielding guns approached their target. Bahgat Zakhar, 58, was an Egyptian Copt on a “kill list” and the terrorists had been tracking him for [...]

By Neil Hicks, Human Rights First –  Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will visit President Trump at the White House next week. The visit comes at a time when governments around the [...]

By POMED – Egyptian Envoy to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Amr Ramadan defended his government’s human rights record at a council meeting on Wednesday. Ramadan expressed [...]

By POMED – Last week, the U.S. State Department released its 2016 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. In its report on Egypt, the State Department argued that some of the most [...]

By UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office – Restrictions on human rights in Egypt continued in the second half of 2016, including growing restrictions on civil society. We raised our concerns [...]

By POMED –  Egyptian authorities shut down the El-Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture today after police sealed off its entrance with wax and arrested [...]