Egypt Politics + Economics Archives

Government committee approves legalization of 156 churches

A government committee has approved the status legalization requests of 156 churches and their affiliated buildings, the cabinet said in…

A cohort of Egyptian human rights advocates have urged the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to investigate Qatar’s role…

Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek ordered yesterday that five more people be detained for four days pending investigations over last week’s…

An appeal made by former anti-corruption chief Hisham Genena against a five-year prison sentence was rejected on Sunday by an…

A Cairo Administrative Court upheld on Tuesday a 1954 decree dissolving the Muslim Brotherhood, Masrawy reports. A ban on the…

A criminal court sentenced two monks convicted of murdering a bishop to death on Saturday, reports Reuters.

Two Egyptian state employees have been arrested by the authorities after embezzling some EGP 30 mn allocated as compensation for…

Preparations to release Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid “Shawkan” have been made after five years in prison, according to Ahram…

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