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Jihad Abaza is a journalist and photographer based in Cairo. Personal website: www.abaza.photo
Young women with university degrees are five times more likely to be unemployed than young men in Egypt, according to the Population Council’s research on gender disparity in access to higher education. While there are nine women for every 10 men in university and the gender gap is narrowing, the percentage of unemployment after graduation …
Sheikh Zuweid civilians continue to face losses as armed forces crackdown on “terrorists”
Journalists claim to have been arrested outside Zeinhom morgue, while Interior Ministry says it arrested 21 more middle-ranking Brotherhood members
Authorities allow 1,158 people to cross, at least 10,000 people have signed up to travel outside Gaza
Groups stay that the US “has much to gain”, if it rejects impunity and provides “adequate redress to the dozens and dozens of people it so brutally abused”
Journalists beaten during arrest, forcibly disappeared, tortured and subjected to inhumane treatment in prison
No injuries or deaths reported in both incidents
Family and friends say security forces took Eman Gad on the first night of Ramadan
Protests are part of a wider call for international action in solidarity with Egyptian detainees
The 63-year-old suffered from overcrowding and excessive smoking in the police station
A detainee sees Omar Mohamed in Al-Aqrab Prison, meanwhile whereabouts of Esraa El-Taweel and Suhaib Saad remain unknown
More young people are discouraged to enter Egypt’s labour market,half of the youth who attended primary school cannot read, study finds
The study stated that Egypt’s investment regime does not place legal restrictions on foreign investors regarding the transfer of profits outside Egypt, nor does it stipulate that investors should reinvest parts of their profits in the country.
Security forces in campaign of disappearances, arrests against people of all political leanings after 6 April calls for general strike and Arab Sharkas executions
Police officer hit lawyer on the head with a shoe causing head injury, syndicate calls for strike
“It is very telling that this should happen on the same day that Al-Sisi and his supporters are also going to Germany,” executive director Mohamed Lotfy said after ban
Al-Azhar cleric and his brothers are to be detained for 15 more days
Ministry of Interior spokesperson denies the arrests
Egypt re-closes Rafah crossing after three-day opening
State security officer, who will soon be released, is notorious for being accused of murder
Students accused of belonging to Students Against the Coup movement
Elderly woman is reported to have died while waiting to cross during heat wave of 46 degrees celsius
Ain Shams University engineering students believe police killed Islam Salah Al-Din Atitu
EFACC says it is ready to oppose the military sentencing of children
Travel approvals from security services are a clear constraint on academics and researchers, AFTE says
EU increasingly criticised for placing more efforts on militarising Mediterranean rather than saving migrants’ lives
Students say Islam Salah Al-Din was taken by security forces after an exam on campus
Days after executions, Egyptian courts postpone examination of lawsuit that demanded halt of capital punishment
“Things continue to go from bad to worse,” spokesperson says
Not the first time National Security take a Students Against the Coup movement member, spokesperson said
