Human rights activist Maikel Nabil was the first political prisoner in post-revolution Egypt

Appointments include senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders such as Essam al-Erian and Sobhi Saleh and military figures such as Adel Morsy, the former head of the Military Judiciary Authority

Egypt's constitution appears to have passed with 64 percent of Egyptians voting "yes,"

Two priests from the Coptic Orthodox Church in Sudan have been arrested after the religious conversion of a Muslim in the Islamist-run state, church sources said

An Egyptian court has ordered the retrial of two policemen sentenced to seven years in prison in the killing of a young man

Twenty-two year old Egyptian activist Aliaa Magda Al Mahdy was pictured fully nude, holding up an Egyptian flag outside the Egyptian embassy

Egypt's opposition, facing defeat over a new constitution in a referendum this weekend, urged its supporters to reject the Islamist-backed charter and pledged to fight on

The April 6 Youth Movement accused two Jama’a al-Islamiya members of fracturing one of its member’s noses as he was distributing leaflets in Minya

UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi visited Cairo on Tuesday for meetings on the Syrian crisis

Two members of the 'Hazemoun' movement – supporters of Salafist leader Hazem Abu-Ismail – were detained by police on Tuesday in the wake of Saturday's attack on the liberal Wafd Party headquarters, according Ahmed Samir, a leading member of the movement.

The three Egyptian churches took part Tuesday in the fourth session of a national dialogue presided over by Vice President Mahmoud Mekky.

Egyptian Islamist groups are planning a mass protest in Alexandria on Friday, a move that will raise tensions a day before the final stage of a referendum on the new constitution that has split the nation.

Egypt's public prosecutor resigned under pressure from his opponents in the judiciary

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has rebuffed claims carried by Egyptian media that it was behind a plot against the Egypt's leadership

Egyptian human rights organizations have jointly condemned the three year sentence of activist Alber Sabe

Judges of Ismailiya Primary Court ended their strike on Tuesday and decided to supervise the second phase of Egypt's referendum

Fresh opposition protests are to be held in Cairo on Tuesday over a draft constitution

A Cairo court sentenced a Coptic Christian to three years in prison Wednesday for posting portions of an American-made film about Islam that was blamed for widespread unrest in the Middle East

“Fundamentalism is good for protest, good for revolution, and good for war, but not so good for development.”

Egyptians voted peacefully and in large numbers on Saturday in a referendum on an Islamist-backed draft constitution

The Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) has claimed that a statement released by the president’s assistant to foreign media “contains many falsehoods and inaccuracies.”