The Qatari government's decision to remove Sheikh Youssef el-Qaradawi from his position as head of the Al-Balagh Cultural Society, which runs the Islam Online website, is demonstrative of the failures

It seems the Islam Online saga is finally drawing to an end, although not necessarily the one hoped for by employees of its Cairo-based office.

A widely popular Islamic website has been, until very recently, an undisputed success story. IslamOnline arrived at a time that millions of Muslims needed a common platform and a unifying

Repressive measures against journalists and human rights activist have now become common currency in Egypt, where neither domestic nor international laws are respected.

Alkarama requests that the Egyptian authorities release all prisoners of opinion, to desist from the degrading and inhumane practice of torture, and to try all those involved in cases of

On 30 March 2010, as a Munufeya University graduation service came to a close, Egyptian Security Services arrested 11 students outside the gates of the university's Faculty of Electronic Engineering.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to protest the continued detention of Mosad Soleiman, known online as Mosad Abu Fagr, a blogger, novelist, and activist who writes about social

The latest count of the number of detainees arrested during demonstrations has spiraled out of control reaching 92 as security continued dragging in innocent civilians.

The Sawaseya Center for Human Rights and Combating Terrorism has called on the government to stop the terrorizing of students.

An Egyptian publisher arrested on Saturday has been released from police custody, a police official told Bikya Masr on Sunday. According to the interior ministry, Ahmed Muhanna was released from