Greater Middle East
Egypt: secularism and dictatorship?
A sweeping "anti-terrorism" decree and expanded crackdown on opposition come as Egypt's President al-Sisi is making overtures to the Copts and invoking pluralism.
Tag: Egypt
North Africa
Libya: air-strikes on Misrata as fighting spreads
Warplanes under the command of renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar fired missiles at Misrata's rebel-held airport, as Libya's oil exports remain effectively paralyzed by civil war.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: 439 refered to military tribunal
Egypt's top prosecutor referred 439 individuals to a military tribunal for the killing of three police officers last year. Rights groups protest the use of the tribunals for civilians.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: court sentences 188 to death
An Egyptian court sentenced 188 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death for an August 2013 attack on a police station in Giza governate, widely known as the "Kerdasa massacre."
Greater Middle East
Egypt: court dismisses case against Mubarak
A Egyptian court dropped charges against former president Hosni Mubarak in his retrial for the deaths of more than 100 protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled his regime.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: first FGM trial ends in acquittals
Two men in Egypt were acquitted on charges relating to female genital mutilation, in the only case brought to trial since the law banning FGM was toughened in 2008.
Southeast Asia
Worldwide despots: Orwell still dangerous
Protesters in military-ruled Thailand have been silently reading 1984 in public to outwit a ban on gatherings—leading to the book itself being banned. Egypt could be next.
Palestine
Bedouin under attack from Sinai to Hebron
The Egyptian army is destroying hundreds of Bedouin homes along the Gaza border to create a "security zone," while the Israeli army razed more Bedouin homes on the West Bank.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: court convicts eight in same-sex marriage
An Egyptian court convicted and sentenced eight men to three years in prison following their participation in an alleged same-sex wedding party.
Greater Middle East
Egyptian court sentences 23 protesters to prison
An Egyptian court sentenced 23 activists to three years in prison for protesting without a permit, an act that violates a controversial law enacted last year.
Greater Middle East
Clashes in Egypt’s Sinai; militants attack Israel
Attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula killed at least 30 troops, one day after militants fired an anti-tank missile at a military vehicle across the Israeli line.
North Africa
Egypt bombs Libya —again?
Amid fierece fighting in Benghazi, AP cites unnamed "officials" as saying Egyptian warplanes have bombed Islamist positions in the eastern Libyan city.