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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/11/2024 10:53:00 PM
Head of Egyptian General Intelligence Service Major General Abbas Kamel and Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani are meeting with Hamas negotiators on Wednesday in Doha to try to break the deadlock in the Gaza prisoner-swap and ceasefire deal talks.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
9/10/2024 4:59:38 PM
Mediation efforts led by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States in the hope of reaching a ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal are at a standstill again.
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World
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International
9/10/2024 12:30:11 PM
Thousands of prisoners in British jails were due to be released early on Tuesday, as part of government moves to ease overcrowding.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/9/2024 8:47:21 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi reiterated Monday to Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen the urgency to reach an immediate ceasefire and a prisoner swap deal to end the Gaza war and alleviate the dire humanitarian conditions endured by Palestinians in the strip.
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World
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Region
9/5/2024 2:42:42 PM
Scores of prisoners were released from a notorious Bahrain prison on Thursday following a royal pardon of more than 450 inmates.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/5/2024 2:12:05 PM
Palestinian man Adnan Naghnaghia has been holed up at home for eight days as Israeli forces were carrying out large- scale raids, and making arrests in the occupied West Bank.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/3/2024 8:00:00 PM
Egypt has firmly rejected recent statements made by the Israeli prime minister, in which “he sought to use Egypt’s name to deflect Israeli public attention and hinder ongoing ceasefire and captive-prisoner swap negotiations.”
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World
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Africa
9/3/2024 3:11:54 PM
At least 129 people died during an attempted jailbreak in Congo’s main prison in the capital, authorities said Tuesday, most of them killed in a stampede.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/1/2024 11:21:00 PM
Thousands of Israelis took to the streets across Tel Aviv on Sunday evening to demand that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sign a prisoner swap deal with Hamas to bring more than 100 Israelis held captive by the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip since 7 October.
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World
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International
8/28/2024 10:03:54 PM
A militia group member who communicated with other far-right extremists while they stormed the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
8/27/2024 11:07:54 PM
Gamal Essam El-Din reviews a new report on human rights developments in Egypt.
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World
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War in Ukraine
8/24/2024 3:37:58 PM
Russia and Ukraine announced Saturday they had exchanged 115 prisoners of war each, just over two weeks after Kyiv launched a surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk region.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
8/22/2024 10:08:26 PM
The Cairo Court of Appeals accepted the appeal filed by the Uber driver convicted in the case of Habiba El-Shamaa's death, reducing his sentence from 15 to 5 years and his fine from EGP 50,000 to EGP 10,000 after clearing him of the kidnapping charge.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/21/2024 5:52:58 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty and UN Secretary-General António Guterres stressed in a phone call on Wednesday the urgent need to secure an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, ensure delivery of humanitarian aid, and facilitate the exchange of prisoners and detainees.
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World
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War in Ukraine
8/15/2024 9:23:36 PM
U.S.-Russian dual national Ksenia Khavana was convicted Thursday of treason in a Russian court and sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges stemming from a donation of about $52 to a charity aiding Ukraine.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
8/13/2024 9:50:40 PM
President Al-Sisi’s decision to pardon 600 prisoners was welcomed by political parties, MPs, and human rights organisations, reports Gamal Essam El-Din
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Egypt
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Politics
8/8/2024 4:50:35 PM
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi granted presidential pardon to 600 inmates convicted in different cases, reported Extra News on Thursday.
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World
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Region
8/7/2024 10:26:29 PM
Iran on Wednesday hanged at least 29 convicts in a single day, including 26 in a group execution in one prison, a rights group said, a day after facing international condemnation for executing a man in connection with 2022 protests.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/7/2024 3:03:26 PM
Protesters disrupted an Israeli Supreme Court hearing Wednesday about a shadowy military facility where Israel has held Palestinian detainees throughout the war in Gaza, amid reports of systematic abuse and torture facing the Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/6/2024 11:00:11 PM
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners are facing systematic abuse and torture in Israeli jails, according to a report released by an Israeli human rights group on Tuesday.
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