The Salafi Al-Nour Party put forth an extensive list of criteria for evaluating presidential candidates on Monday, reiterating that it would not field its own presidential candidate.
The South Qalyoubiya prosecution referred 38 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to the Criminal Court for attempting to bomb the Shubra al-Kheima and al-Zera’a metro stations during celebrations of the 6 October victory. The Brotherhood supporters are being charged with smashing the entrance gates, shooting police and residents and possessing 49 explosives and Molotov cocktails.
Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh will not run in the upcoming presidential elections, his Strong Egypt Party announced Sunday in a press conference, describing the polls as a "mockery" of elections.
The leader of an Islamist party allied with the Muslim Brotherhood has claimed he was subjected to torture while being held in detention.
Political Science Professor at Cairo University, Hassan Nafaa said his proposed reconciliation initiative between the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and the government has been welcomed by some political parties but he has not received a response from either the government or the Brotherhood.
Secretary General of the Nour Party Mohamed Shokry hopes that a competitive candidate will run against Abdel Fatah al-Sisi in the upcoming presidential elections so that citizen will have the opportunity to choose between different competitors.
Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies wants the Muslim Brotherhood to be classified as a terrorist organization globally, said Ibn Khaldun executive director Dalia Zeyada in an interview with Al Arabiya Hadath satellite channel Wednesday.
Youm7 published an intelligence report of Salama Abujrad’s confessions, one of the two Egyptians detained in an espionage case known as the Ovadia case, Thursday. He had provided Israel with sensitive information for six years and was arrested May 2013 in a security crackdown on espionage in the Sinai.
The trial of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and 14 co-defendants has been adjourned until 1 March.
The trial of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and 14 co-defendants continues on Wednesday. Morsi, his presidential aides and senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders are accused of inciting the murder and torture of opposition protesters outside the presidential palace in December 2012.
A number of young Islamists formed a revolutionary alliance running parallel to the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy which they described as a “failure.”
Lawyers for Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and former spokesman asked a judge Tuesday to let them interview accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed prior to a terrorism trial scheduled to begin this month.
Egypt does not want to escalate conflicts with the Gulf state of Qatar but will not remain silent if there is a “direct” interference in its domestic affairs, Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi said on Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia.
An Egyptian court on Wednesday adjourned the murder trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to March 1, to review video evidence against the Islamist.
A Cairo criminal court on Tuesday resumed the trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi on charges of inciting the killing of protesters during his presidency.
The committee tasked with managing and seizing Muslim Brotherhood (Muslim Brotherhood) funds, headed by Advisor Ezzat Khamis, decided on Tuesday to freeze the assets of two associations and place them under government supervision.
Egypt’s Christians rang in the new year Wednesday with prayers for peace after months of unrest, but expressed no regrets over backing the military’s overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
Secretary General of Karama Party Amin Iskander said on Tuesday that the party opposes reconciliation with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).
The leader of the hard-line Islamic group Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya along with tens of Muslim Brotherhood figures has been referred to trial by Egyptian prosecutors on violence charges stemming from last summer's protests that led to the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi.
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Ahram Online visits the Hanging Church, one of Egypt’s oldest churches, after 16 years of restoration.