Political powerhouse Mohamed ElBaradei denounced a fatwa Wednesday that authorized the murder of National Salvation Front members.

A non-governmental organization with links to the Muslim Brotherhood demanded the National Council for Women be abolished on Wednesday, saying the group sought to destroy Egyptian families and did not conform to Sharia Law.

Presidential spokesperson Yasser Ali said the government is committed to collaborating with Egypt's fractured political scene at a national dialogue planned for next week.

Egypt's net foreign reserves are currently enough to cover only three months of the country's imports, Ashraf El-Arabi, minister of planning and international cooperation, stated on Tuesday.

An Egyptian activist who died Monday was beaten unconscious during interrogation at a security camp where he was detained for three days, two security sources told Reuters Tuesday.

Head of Journalists Syndicate Mamdouh El-Wali and Chief executive officer of state-run newspaper Al-Ahram announced Tuesday that he will not run in the upcoming round of board elections "to make room for new blood."

The Egyptian Railways Authority is set to enforce women’s-only train cars on several popular routes to and from the capital starting Wednesday.

Hundreds in Cairo and Alexandria staged protests on Tuesday to denounce police violence. In Cairo, scores of men and women marched from the High Court in downtown Cairo to Tahrir Square, demanding police officers accused of stripping and beating protester Hamada Saber outside the presidential palace last week be punished. According to state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper, the group chanted slogans against the Muslim Brotherhood and President Mohamed Morsy.

Following the recent death of activist Mohamed El-Gendy, who allegedly died after being subject to torture by police, several Egyptian rights activists issued a report on Sunday detailing what they see as the persistence of oppressive police tactics employed by the state.

Protesters attacked Gharbiya Security Directorate headquarters and the Tanta Police Station after clashes erupted with security forces following the funeral of activist Mohamed al-Gendy on Monday.

Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has called on Egyptians to channel their energies into "building the country" and not to take part in protests or clashes.

The Maspero Youth Union issued a call to protest against the Cairo Criminal Court's conviction of two Coptic activists on Monday on charges related to the Maspero massacre.

Minister of Culture Saber Arab submitted his resignation on Monday in protest against brutal violence against protesters over the past week.

The government of Prime Minister Hisham Kandil is currently in the process of drafting two new laws aimed at regulating the right of street protest and combating the proliferation of thuggery. According to Justice Minister Ahmed Mekki, anti-protest laws have become a necessity to stem the tide of violence in the street and to regulate the right of organising demonstrations.

The National Council for Women condemned an incident broadcast on a satellite channel Saturday in which police dragged a woman by her hair and detained her inside a van outside the presidential palace.

Egypt's budget deficit reached LE91.5 billion in the first six months of the current 2012/13 fiscal year that began last July, the Egyptian Ministry of Finance reported on Sunday.

Ahmadinejad will head Iran's delegation to a summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Cairo, said Amani Mojtaba, head of Iran's interest section in Cairo, which it maintains in the absence of an official embassy.

Shura Council member Maged Aqad submitted his resignation to Speaker Ahmed Fahmy Sunday to protest the treatment of a demonstrator at the presidential palace clashes Friday who was dragged, stripped naked and beaten by security officers.

Hamada Saber, the man who was dragged and beaten by Central Security Forces (CSF) as recorded on a video aired by Al-Hayat satellite TV on Friday night, told prosecutors on Saturday that protesters and not security forces "initiated" the assault against him, according to a report on Ahram Arabic news website.

Dozens of protestors marched from Tahrir Square to the prosecutor general's office at the High Court to condemn security forces' stripping and beating of a protester yesterday during clashes in front of Ettehadiya Palace and to demand Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim's dismissal.

A delegation of activists has left from Cairo to Port Said Saturday in solidarity with the coastal city's residents who have been rioting in response to claimed marginalisation for the past week.