Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Egyptian who treated pharaohs more than 4,000 years ago. The well-preserved burial site belonged to Teti Neb Fu, believed to have been a ...

Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British-Egyptian activist and blogger, has spent hundreds of days on hunger strike to raise awareness of his case. He was sentenced to half a decade in prison in December ...

The ex-prisoners, who are not allowed to leave their hotel, describe their situation as moving "from an Israeli prison to an Egyptian prison." The source reports that they had to stay for a long ...

They want her to die in prison.” Abdelmoneim is one of many human rights lawyers targeted by the Egyptian authorities, who weaponise counterterrorism legislation to detain them for prolonged ...

Former Australian Prison Mate of Jailed Egyptian-British Dissident Goes on Hunger Strike By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt ...

Peter Greste on Monday joined Abd el-Fattah's mother, who has been on a hunger strike ever since Egyptian authorities ... was in a neighbouring prison cell to Abd el-Fattah in 2013.