All posts tagged "law"

Saudi Arabia has issued a bizarre decree in which it banned fifty baby names for going against...

A Cairo Misdemeanor Court sentenced the sexual harasser from the ‘Heliopolis mall incident’ to one month in prison...

By Aswat Masriya A Giza court extended the detention of Esraa al-Taweel, a student and amateur photographer...

Women in Iran have long struggled with the suffocating restrictions the government imposes on women in social...

Two belly-dancers who had been charged with debauchery and the promotion of immorality in their music videos...

Al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste have been sentenced to three years in...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has signed an amended law defining voting districts, making way for the country’s...

The draft anti-terrorism law, which awaits presidential approval to come into effect, imposes an “indefinite, undeclared state...

At a press conference on Saturday Minister of Justice Ahmed Al-Zind announced the appointment of a group...

Deposed President Mohammed Morsi has been sentenced to death on charges of escaping from prison. The Court...

Egypt’s Administrative Court issued a ruling on Tuesday allowing the Interior Ministry to deport homosexual foreigners and...

The Prosecutor-General Hisham Barakat has commenced an urgent investigation into allegations of torture after the National Council...

In a landmark case, an Egyptian court sentenced the four people accused of involvement in the killing of a...

Today marks Egyptian-American activist Mohamed Soltan’s 411th day on hunger strike. Just two days ago, on March...

Legislation issued by Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to regulate the process of “listing terrorist groups and...

Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma and 229 others have been sentenced to life in prison and fined EGP...

Egypt’s top prosecutor referred on Saturday two policemen to the criminal court for the abduction and indecent...