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Egypt Youth Against the Coup to Steadfast Political Prisoners: Your Freedom Our Goal

The 'Youth Against the Coup' movement urges all Egyptians to join mass protests on Monday – April 25 to pressure the military junta to release all prisoners of conscience.

Muslim Brotherhood Media Spokesman: Our Land, Our Honor

A new saga was started in Egypt Friday by the revolutionaries in a majestic scene of mass protests that recreated the atmosphere of January 25, 2011 Revolution, and carried along

Rights Group: Coup Security Forces Assault, Detain Journalists During Friday Protest Coverage

An Egyptian rights organization documents many incidents of police brutality against journalists covering anti-junta mass protests across Egypt.

Egypt Pro-Democracy Alliance Calls ‘Egypt Above All’ Week of Anti-Coup Peaceful Protests.

The broadbased anti-coup coalition in Egypt issued this statement in support of calls to mass demonstrations Friday in protest of Sisi's handover of two Egyptian islands to Saudi Arabia.

Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Badie: We are Punished for Joining January 25, 2011 Revolution

In court Tuesday, Muslim Brotherhood leader Badie reiterates that the group never committed any crimes; but is being brutally punished for taking part in the 2011 Revolution that ousted authoritarian

Aqrab Detainees Hunger-Strike Continues for Second Month

Political Prisoners at Aqrab Prison, Egypt's Guantanamo, start a second month of continuous hunger-strike in protest of brutal ill-treatment, torture and extreme humiliation used by junta authorities to punish all

Egyptian Mosaab Abdel-Aziz Writes from UAE Prison

A desperate plea to the world community from a guiltless Egyptian languishing in a high-security UAE dungeon since October 2014, on baseless charges of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Rights Organization Condemns Arrest of Egyptian Physician by Indian Authorities

Shehab Center for Human Rights calls on world community to support an Egyptian doctor arrested in India for deportation to Al-Sisi's brutal security apparatuses.

Eighty-Eight Years On, Muslim Brotherhood Stands Steadfast As Ever – for Freedom, Reform

Eighty-eight years have passed since the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood on March 22, 1928 at the hands of Imam Hassan Al-Banna. The group started amidst major historical and political

Rights Organizations Launch ‘Close Aqrab Prison’ Campaign

A number of human rights organizations join hands in a bid to use force of law to persuade the military-appointed ruling regime in Egypt to close Aqrab Prison, one of