At least three protesters and a police officer have been killed in Egyptian capital of Cairo during clashes between alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters and police forces on the first anniversary of the bloody clearing of a sit-in supporting military-ousted president Mohamed Morsi last August.
A UK-based rights group has highlighted persisting human rights violations across Egypt, warning of catastrophic decline in basic rights in the Arab country since the military-led coup against the nation’s first freely elected president Mohamed Morsi.
Clashes between Egyptian police forces and supporters of the country’s military-ousted elected president Mohamed Morsi have erupted during persisting anti-regime protest rallies that followed midday prayers in parts of the nation’s capital of Cairo.
Cairo’s Shubra Criminal Court has sentenced 10 more supporters of military-toppled president Mohamed Morsi to death on allegations of inciting violence and blocking the Qalyoub Highway last July.
Egyptian security forces have attacked the student dormitories at Cairo campus of the prominent Al-Azhar University in an effort to bring under control rioting by students that support the country’s military-ousted elected president Mohamed Morsi.
Nearly 20,000 Egyptian prisoners have gone on a week-long hunger strike inside their jail cells to protest what they allege as inmate mistreatment, an Egyptian rights activist said.
Clashes have erupted in Egypt at two major universities in the capital Cairo between protesting students and police forces.
Saudi Arabia is giving away $3 billion worth of ‘fuel donations’ to the military-installed government in Egypt over four months as part of a financial lifeline from Persian Gulf Arab regimes to ease the energy crisis in the embattled country that has killed and jailed thousands of protesters following the military-ouster of freely-elected president Mohamed Morsi last July.
Four more bomb blasts and persisting violent protests against the military-installed government have occurred in Egypt with less than four weeks remaining until the Egyptian presidential election in May with only two contenders.
Egypt’s only two presidential contenders – former military chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi – are set to launch their election campaigns on Saturday.
Egypt’s military-installed government authorities have announced arresting the spokesman for the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood while Egyptian security forces have killed two more pro-Morsi protesters during persisting demonstrations by supporters of the army-ousted president.
An Egyptian police officer has been killed in another bomb attack targeting a police kiosk in the capital Cairo, security authorities stated.
Two young Egyptian political dissidents claim they were raped in Egyptian police custody in separate assaults that campaigners suspect are indicative of a wider strategy as the brutal crackdown on opposition continues.
The trial of military-ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and 14 co-defendants on allegations of inciting murder of opposition protesters in 2012 has been adjourned following objections by defense attorney for the repeated use of biased, pro-state witnesses by the prosecution.
Two explosions have reportedly occurred at Cairo University in the Egyptian capital, killing at least one person and injuring three amid continuing unrest in the country following declaration of presidential candidacy of the country’s recent military chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.
Prominent Egyptian al-Azhar University has expelled more than 24 students on charges of taking part in protest rallies against the military-led interim government.
A blast, described as a suspected homemade bomb, has ripped through a tram station in the Egyptian capital of Cairo wounding at least one person, security officials said.
A Cairo criminal court has sentenced nearly two dozen Islamist students to three years in jail for illegal demonstrations, judicial sources said.
Egypt’s prosecutor-general has ordered the release of a woman who was arrested last month while eight months pregnant, and who was photographed handcuffed to a hospital bed after giving birth to her child earlier this week.
Egyptian military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Ali has announced the arrest of 19 “armed members” of the country’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia following a surge of attacks in the area against security forces.