All posts tagged "law"

While open-air migrant camps in Greece or France have attracted much media attention lately, less prominent in...

An Egyptian parliament member introduced a bill to repeal an article of the penal code related to...

In a bid to reduce the number of Syrians across Lebanon, the Council of Ministers passed new...

Two young Egyptians who took a ‘selfie’ with the burning Address Downtown Hotel in the backdrop on...

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...