Ahmed Ibrahim Bakr

Nov 19, 2024 | madamasr.com | Ahmed Ibrahim Bakr

After police arrested a number of Matariya residents who had protested for local authorities to conduct maintenance on an accident-ridden local road, the prosecution issued orders on Monday to keep six people, including a child, in detention. Twenty-three people were ordered released on bail by the same prosecution in Daqahlia on Monday, lawyer Hassan al-Melhat told Mada Masr.

Nov 17, 2024 | madamasr.com | Ahmed Ibrahim Bakr

The governors of Daqahlia and Port Said announced on Saturday new upgrades to a neglected and dangerous road that connects the two governorates. The decisions came following a deadly car collision that killed 13 people on the road last week, after which residents of Matariya gathered on Saturday to block the route in a display of anger. Police attending the scene later clashed with the protesters.

Nov 13, 2024 | madamasr.com | Ahmed Ibrahim Bakr

A group of United Nations human rights experts have sent a communication to the Egyptian government expressing their concerns about draft articles of the new Criminal Procedures Code bill currently being discussed in Parliament. The bill, which was hastily introduced in recent months, has been touted by the government as an achievement in minimizing the periods of remand detention and offering alternatives to it.

Nov 13, 2024 | madamasr.com | Ahmed Ibrahim Bakr

Last month, the United States gave Israel a 30-day deadline to significantly increase the aid entering the Gaza Strip. Israel missed the deadline on Tuesday. The flow of aid remains minimal into the war-torn strip, where Palestinians face a humanitarian crisis caused by Israeli aggression. Northern Gaza in particular, where residents are besieged and infrastructure is devastated by a ground incursion Israel launched in early October, has been almost entirely cut off from the supply lines.

Oct 21, 2024 | madamasr.com | Ahmed Ibrahim Bakr

Samanoud Textiles Company launched a new lawsuit aiming to fire union leader Hesham al-Banna from the company, his lawyer Haitham Mohamedien told Mada Masr. This is the second lawsuit filed by the company against Banna,  against the backdrop of a strike the company workers began on August 18 to demand they be granted the monthly minimum wage of LE6,000 announced earlier this year by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.