By Suchita Uppal and Mohamed Lotfy Mohamed Lotfy is the Executive Director of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms. On Monday, November 17, an Egyptian Court is due to decide whether to ...

Alaa Abdel Fattah embraces his mother, writer Laila Soueif, left, and his sister Sanaa Seif at home in Cairo after his release from prison - Mohamed El-Raai/Getty Images Egypt has pardoned its most ...

Prominent Egyptian blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah has been released from prison along with several other prisoners following the announcement of presidential pardons on Monday in Egypt. Alaa spent most of ...

Egypt's cabinet has toughened a law banning female genital mutilation (FGM) - imposing jail terms of up to 20 years as part of efforts to stamp out the ancient practice.

The Egyptian-British journalist and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah is freed by presidential pardon after nearly six years in prison, while 19 other journalists remain jailed under Egypt's press crackdown.