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Today in History

By The Associated Press Jun. 28, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Monday, June 28, the 179th day of 2021. There are 186 days left in the year. Today’s...

Today in History

By The Associated Press Apr. 21, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Wednesday, April 21, the 111th day of 2021. There are 254 days left in the year. Today’s...

FILE - In this file photo released by Iraq's Ministry of Justice on June 29, 2018, blindfolded prisoners await their executions in Iraq. A report released by Amnesty International on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, said the number of executions worldwide in 2020 plummeted to its lowest level in at least a decade. But the report said four states in the Middle East — Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia respectively — topped the global list and pressed on with shootings, beheadings and hangings, ignoring pleas by rights groups to halt executions during the pandemic. (Iraq Ministry of Justice via AP, File)
Report: Mideast countries top 2020 global executioners list

By Isabel Debre Apr. 20, 2021 09:42 PM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2020 file photo, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrives at Buckingham Palace for a reception to mark the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London. A global watchdog and human rights lawyers on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, say that Egyptian authorities have arrested hundreds of people in their effort to clamp down on a spate of small but exceptionally rare protests across the country. (Henry Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP, File )
Amnesty: Hundreds detained as Egyptian police quash protests

Oct. 02, 2020 02:24 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 29, 2020, file photo, a street is empty during curfew hours due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian security forces have arrested two journalists, including one sick with COVID-19, the latest step in a sweeping crackdown on news media during the pandemic, an international press watchdog reported Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
Egypt journalist arrested over coverage of detainee's death

Sep. 11, 2020 09:57 PM EDT

An election worker helps a man register his name to vote on the first day of the Senate elections inside a polling station in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. Egyptians started voting on Tuesday for the Senate, the upper chamber of parliament that was revived as part of constitutional amendments approved in a referendum last year — an election that comes as the country faces an uptick in daily numbers of new coronavirus cases. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Egyptians start voting for revived upper house of parliament

By Samy Magdy Aug. 11, 2020 03:10 AM EDT

In this image provided by the Freedom Initiative Mohamed Amashah is greeted by family members upon arrival at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., on Monday, July 6, 2020. The American medical student detained without trial in an Egyptian prison for nearly 500 days has been freed and returned to the United States, the U.S. State Department said on Monday. (Bushra Soltan/Freedom Initiative via AP)
American student released after 486 days in Egyptian prison

Jul. 06, 2020 06:54 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 14, 2020 file photo, people crowd a street a few hours ahead of curfew in Cairo, Egypt. As Egyptian authorities fight the swelling coronavirus outbreak, security agencies have tried to stifle criticism about the handling of the health crisis by the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
Egypt arrests doctors, silences critics over virus outbreak

By The Associated Press Jul. 06, 2020 02:21 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 17, 2020 file photo, a health worker wearing protective gear prepares to take swab samples from people lining up in their cars to test for the coronavirus at a drive-through COVID-19 screening center at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. Coronavirus infections are surging in the country of 100 million, threatening to overwhelm hospitals. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
Egypt arrests doctors, silences critics over virus outbreak

By The Associated Press Jul. 06, 2020 02:14 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2018, file, photo, Lasheen Ibrahim, head of the National Electoral Commission, which is in charge of supervising the 2018 Egyptian presidential election, and members of the commission prepare to give a press conference at the commission headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt will hold Senate elections over two days in August, the chief of the country’s election commission said Saturday, July 4, 2020, more than a year after the restoration of Parliament’s lower chamber, which was dissolved in 2014. Ibrahim, chairman of the National Election Authority, told a televised news conference that Senate elections will be held Aug. 11-12, with runoff elections to take place Sept. 8-9 if necessary. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
Egypt sets August election dates for restored Senate

By Samy Magdy Jul. 04, 2020 11:56 AM EDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014 file photo, Sanaa Seif, the younger daughter of Ahmed Seif, one of Egypt's most prominent civil rights lawyer and campaigner, receives condolences for her father at Omar Makram mosque after being temporarily released form prison, in Cairo, Egypt. Saif familiy said that Sanaa was detained Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Sanaa was taken into an unmarked white van by what her family believes were officers dressed in plain clothes from outside the public prosecutor's headquarters in Cairo. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
Family says sister of prominent Egyptian activist arrested

Jun. 23, 2020 06:53 PM EDT

Lawyer: Egyptian journalist detained on fake news charges

Jun. 15, 2020 08:59 PM EDT
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities detained a prominent local journalist Monday on charges of spreading fake news, his lawyer said, in the government's latest...

In this Nov. 24, 2017 photo, Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, a prominent investigative media outlet in Egypt, participates in a panel discussion at cultural center in Cairo, Egypt. Mada Masr said editor Lina Attalah was arrested Sunday, May 17, 2020, outside Cairo’s Tora prison complex. She was there to interview the mother of a prominent jailed activist. It's the latest arrest amid a wider crackdown on dissent. (AP Photo/Roger Anis)
Group: Egypt uses virus to renew detentions of hundreds

May. 18, 2020 08:54 AM EDT