The knock on the door came just before midnight, a group of plainclothes police demanding that 29-year-old Fatma el-Sayed, an activist with one of Egypt's secular opposition groups, come with them.

Egyptian authorities released three activists and three journalists Sunday after months in pre-trial detention, officials and lawyers said. The releases came after U.S. officials, among others ...

Alaa Abdel-Fattah, an imprisoned activist in Egypt, is going on a full hunger strike. He plans to stop drinking water on the first day of the global climate summit next week.

Egyptian authorities released two activists and a journalist Sunday after months in pre-trial detention, officials and lawyers said, amid concern by President Joe Biden's administration over the ...

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi granted pardons on Wednesday to two prominent rights activists. Among those pardoned was Patrick George Zaki and Mohammed el-Baker.

Family members of activists imprisoned in Egypt call on the U.S. and British governments to exert more pressure to free their loved ones during COP27.

(Beirut) – Three Egyptian activists began hunger strikes on February 10 and 11, 2022, to protest their indefinite pretrial detention, Human Rights Watch said today.

Members of a humanitarian convoy of at least 1,500 people, including activists and supporters from Algeria and Tunisia, wave Palestinian flags from a bus as the group travels toward Gaza via Egypt ...

Egypt’s leading pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah speaks during a conference at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 22, 2014.

CAIRO — Egyptian authorities released a rights activist Wednesday after he spent nearly two years in jail in a case that has drawn significant international attention, a rights group said ...