Greater Middle East
Morsi goes on trial over espionage allegations
An Egyptian court put ex-president Mohammed Morsi on trial over accusations of spying and endangering national security by leaking information to Qatar.
Tag: Egypt
North Africa
Libya: Coptic Christians abducted by ISIS?
Presumed ISIS adherents in Libya have released photos on social media purporting to show some 20 abducted Coptic Christians, saying they await execution.
Watching the Shadows
US: Egyptian lawyer gets 25 years on terror charge
Adel Abdel Bary was convicted in New York of his role in the 1998 African embassy bombings. His extradition had been challenged before the European Court of Human Rights.
Greater Middle East
Amnesty: Egypt covering up protester deaths
Amnesty International charged that the Egyptian government is covering up the deaths of more than two dozen people in protests on the anniversary of the 2011 uprising.
Palestine
Egypt: court bans Hamas armed group
A Cairo appeals court banned the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, armed wing of Hamas, and declared it a terrorist group with links to the Sinai insurgency.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: 516 Muslim Brotherhood supporters arrested
Security forces in Egypt arrested 516 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood in protests marking the fourth anniversary of the country's 2011 revolution.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: court upholds convictions of activists
Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld convictions and three-year prison sentences of three activists for violating the country's controversial new anti-protest law.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: leftist protester killed at Tahrir Square
Protests around the commemoration of Egypt's 2011 revolution may be dominated by Islamist Morsi supporters, but an early demonstration called by a socialist party saw one killed.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: retrial for police in protester deaths
Egypt's Court of Cassation ordered a retrial for four police officers accussed in the deaths of 37 detained protesters in a van outside a Cairo prison after the 2013 coup.
Watching the Shadows
Obama’s sixth year: a World War 4 Report scorecard
World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama's moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: atheist gets prison for Facebook posts
An Egyptian court in Baheira governorate sentenced student Karim Ashraf Mohamed al-Banna to three years in prison for announcing on Facebook that he is an atheist.
Europe
Europe: destroying freedom to save it
At thier meeting in Paris to condemn the attack on Charlie Hebdo, European Union government ministers issued a statement calling for further restrictions on the Internet.