Freedom of Expression

June 13, 2016

MPs mull removing ‘contempt of religion’ from Penal Code

The Egyptian parliament's Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee has postponed its decision on whether to amend the Penal Code by…

May 10, 2016

American University in Cairo (AUC) student Ibrahim Tamer was released on Monday days after a few hundred students demonstrated on…

February 21, 2016

Authors are planning to “burn” their literary works in protest at the two-year jail sentence handed to author Ahmed Naji…

February 1, 2016

Popular political cartoonist Islam Gawish was arrested and remanded in custody on Sunday, with officials saying it is because he…

January 27, 2016

The lawyer representing columnist Fatema Naout filed an appeal with the al-Khalifa Misdemeanor Court on Wednesday against a three-year jail term…

January 27, 2016

Media and intellectual figures have voiced discontent with a three-year sentence handed down on journalist Fatema Naout on Tuesday over…

January 26, 2016

A Cairo misdemeanor court sentenced columnist Fatema Naout to three years in jail and a LE20,000 fine over charges of…

January 9, 2016

An Iranian poet who backed a reformist candidate in 2009's disputed presidential election has been detained amid a crackdown on…

November 10, 2015

Egypt’s Foreign Ministry denounced on Tuesday a statement made by the United Nations on Monday which voiced concern over the…

March 30, 2015

The Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has slammed the arrest of a Bahraini journalist over a critical statement…