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After being alerted to to the incident, prison authorities reportedly made no attempt to save Essam al-Erian, who died of a heart attack.
Egypt launched a two-day vote for a new Senate on Tuesday, authorities confirmed.
Egypt highway uproots graves, homes in 'City of Dead'
Egypt's ministry of antiquities defended the destruction of the cemetery last month and said "there was no destruction of monuments".
Hollywood actors, renowned writers urge Egypt to free activist
Noam Chomsky, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Arundhati Roy were among the public figures to call for the release of prominent Egyptian activist Sanaa ...
Egypt's Sisi ratifies law barring soldiers from seeking office
Active and former military staff will only be allowed to run for office with the army's approval, in a bid to bar any of Sisi's rivals from the ...
Sisi the so-called secularist sets his sights on Al-Azhar
Comment: Not content with an already severely restricted public sphere, Sisi has moved to bring this 1,000-year-old Egyptian centre of learning and scholarship under his control, writes Sam Hamad.
US State Department declares ex-Egyptian PM immune from prosecution
Rights groups argue the US has been blackmailed by Cairo to dismiss a lawsuit against Egypt's former interim prime minister.
Covid-19 has become Egypt's unofficial executioner
Comment: Sisi's regime knew full well that Scorpion prison's derelict, unsanitary hospital was full of Covid-19 cases, but they sent journalist ...
Jordan top court dissolves country's Muslim Brotherhood
Jordan's top court has dissolved the country's branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Renowned jailed Egypt journalist dies after contracting Covid-19
Prominent Egyptian journalist Mohamed Monir, who had been imprisoned on false news charges, has died of Covid-19.
Libya pro-Haftar government 'authorises' Egypt intervention
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned last month that Egypt could send troops into Libya, after the unity government pushed back ...
American student released after 486 days in Egyptian prison
An American student in Egypt has been released after spending over a year in prison after months of pressure from the Trump department.
Egypt to allow military personnel to run in elections
Egypt's parliament on Monday approved amendments allowing active or former military personnel to run for the presidency and parliament pending ...
Egypt arrests doctors, silences critics over coronavirus outbreak
Despite an ongoing deadly coronavirus outbreak, Egypt has imposed a crackdown on health workers deemed to be critical of the Sisi regime.
Sisi regime court upholds 15-year sentence for prominent activist
Ahmed Douma, who has been jailed since 2013, has had a 15-year prison sentence upheld.
The final demise of free expression in Egypt's media
Egypt has censored all independent reporting on sensitive political topics, with journalists and social media users only allowed to communicate the official narrative.
Egypt executes Libyan militant for deadly police attack
Egypt executed a Libyan militant who was convicted for an attack that killed 16 Egyptian policemen.
Saudi Arabia's erasure of its Ottoman history will backfire
Comment: Saudi Arabia is distancing itself from its Ottoman past to fuel its rivalry with Turkey, whipping up jingoistic sentiments, and ...
Mega arms deal with Egyptian regime exposes Italy's 'hypocrisy'
In-depth: Activists say Italy's $1.2 billion sale of warships to Egypt is a betrayal of murdered student Giuliu Regeni and thousands of Egyptian ...
Rights group to 'expose, prosecute' Egypt torture perpetrators
Perpetrators of torture in Egypt could soon be exposed for their crimes, rights organisations have warned, amid a newly-launched campaign to end ...
Hints of rapprochement between rivals Egypt and Turkey, explained
Behind-the-scenes talks indicate warming ties between longtime rivals Egypt and Turkey but Emirati influence over Cairo looks to hamper ...
Egypt must investigate Morsi's mistreatment in jail, HRW says
A year has passed since the death of Egypt's first democratically-elected president.
Egypt detains another journalist on 'fake news' charges
Egypt has already been named the third worst jailer of journalists, after China and Turkey, by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Egypt police raid homes of activist's uncles
The raid, in which young children were reportedly held at gunpoint, followed Egypt's pattern of targeting relatives of dissidents abroad, ...
Fears grow for political prisoners in Egypt's jails as Covid-19 spreads amid deplorable conditions.
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