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A group of lawmakers on Sunday submitted a petition to extend the presidential term to six years, a move that would allow Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to stay in office at least until 2024. “Four years isn’t enough,” Mahmoud Badr, one of the proposal’s sponsors, told talk show host Amr Adib late Saturday. About 125 of Egypt’s […]

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday human rights in Egypt were perceived as worse now than under former strongman Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled by protests in 2011. His comments marked a hardening after he said in 2017 he would not “lecture” President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi over civil liberties, which activists say are being

On The Listening Post this week: Eight years since the revolution, the squeeze on Egypt’s embattled media is tighter than ever before. Plus, President Sisi’s talk show bias. After spring came winter: The fall of the Egyptian media It’s been eight years since the fall of Hosni Mubarak and the uprising that briefly liberated Egyptians

CAIRO (Reuters) – Everyday at sunset, Ahmed Maher, one of Egypt’s best known activists, says good night to his family and heads to a Cairo police station to spend the night under police watch. While what he describes as ‘half an imprisonment’ has disrupted his family life, career and education, Maher considers himself luckier than

A third term? Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) giving a speech during his swearing-in ceremony for a second four-year term in office, at the parliament meeting hall in the capital Cairo, last June. (AFP) Hasaballah referred to political, economic and security challenges that make Sisi remaining in office a necessity. CAIRO – A senior