Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

Having lost a third of her body weight during a 134-day hunger strike, a "weak" Laila Soueif on Monday urged UK Prime ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

The Arab countries are among the top recipients of American military aid, but forcing Palestinians out of their remaining ...

The prominent British Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah remains imprisoned in Cairo even after he completed his five-year sentence last September. Fattah came to prominence during the Egyptian ...

We discuss the cases of two of Egypt’s most prominent political activists, Hossam Bahgat and Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who have both been persecuted by the Egyptian government for exposing its human ...

CAIRO, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and a visiting delegation of the Palestinian Fatah movement discussed Wednesday the fixation of the Gaza ceasefire and the ...

Egypt said on Friday it had been in contact with Arab partners including Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to ...

Human Rights Watch joins twelve other human rights organization to urge the UK Foreign Secretary to secure the release of ...

We, the undersigned 13 freedom of expression and human rights organisations, are writing to you regarding the imprisoned writer and activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, ahead of your upcoming trip to Egypt.

But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike ...

The militant, Ahmed al-Mansour, has posted several videos saying Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would meet the same fate as Assad. "Revolutionaries of January 25" video, with Ahmed al ...