Human Rights Watch strongly criticised Egypt on Saturday for arresting two Shiite activists campaigning against torture in what it called a "broad crackdown on government critics."
EL-ARISH, Egypt - Egyptian police fired tear gas Saturday to disperse several thousand protesters who burned tires and blocked roads in anger over an attack by Bedouins in the Sinai peninsula, officials said.
Source: Human Rights Watch (New York, October 6, 2007) – Egypt should immediately free two men active in promoting the rights of Egypt's Shi'a minority and halt any criminal proceedings against them, Human Rights Watch said ...
A Palestinian research center for prisoners' issues has on Saturday called on Egypt to renew mediation between Israel and the Palestinian factions that hold an Israeli soldier in Gaza. Ra'fat Hamdouna, director of the Prisoners Center f ...
CAIRO, October 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Nine Russian tourists were injured in a road accident in Egypt on Saturday. The accident happened at about 21:00 local time (1900 GMT) in the tunnel under the Suez Canal 150 kilometres from the Egyptian capital.
CAIRO, October 6 (RIA Novosti) - A total of eight Russian tourists were injured on Saturday in a traffic accident in a tunnel under the Suez Canal, Egypt, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in Cairo said.
Gaza - A Palestinian research centre for prisoners' issues on Saturday called on Egypt to renew mediation between Israel and the Palestinian factions that are holding an Israeli soldier in Gaza. Ra'fat Hamdouna, director of the Prisoners Centre for S...
Tourists to Egypt will be able to see the mummy of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun for the first time in early November, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported on Friday. Secretary General of Egyptian Supreme Council of Ant ...
Egypt has shortlisted 24 firms which are pursuing 14 licences to build new cement factories, or extend existing plants, reported Reuters.
Egypt to raise domestic cement supply