Hosni Mubarak

The Antiquities Ministry of Egypt announced Wednesday that archaeologists have discovered an ancient city and cemetary dating back to Egypt’s First Dynasty in the southern province of Sohag.
The discovery was made across the Nile from present day Luxor, only 400 metres away from the temple of Seti I, a New Kingdom period memorial.

An Egyptian appeals court on Nov. 22 quashed one of two life sentences handed down to Mohamed Morsi since his 2013 overthrow, in the Islamist ex-president's second appeals victory in a week.

Morsi's lawyer and a judicial source confirmed the verdict from the Court of Cassation, Egypt's highest judicial authority.

An Egyptian appeals court has overturned a death sentence handed down against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in one of four trials since his 2013 overthrow, a judicial official said, according to AFP.

Egyptian authorities have frozen the assets of a prominent human rights group that works with torture victims, the head of the organization said on Nov. 10.

The move came months after authorities tried on two separate occasions to shut down the El Nadeem Centre for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture and Violence.

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An Egyptian youth arrested two years ago for wearing a T-shirt with a slogan against torture was released early March 25, his brother said.

Veteran Egyptian diplomat Ahmed Abul Gheit was named March 10 as the Arab League's new secretary general, at a time when the regional body faces multiple wars and a widening jihadist threat.

The Turkish government's Syria policy was based on the assumption that the U.S. and the West would put their weight behind toppling the Bashar al-Assad regime in the fall of 2011, as in Libya earlier in the same year. 

Exactly five years after Egypt's democratic revolution triumphed, the country is once more ruled by a military office. General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi seized power in July 2013 and is even nastier than his predecessors.

More than 600 Egyptians were sentenced to death last year, mostly in mass trials, and most of the cases involved people who had gone to pro-democracy protests. 

Egyptians on Jan. 25 marked the fifth anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak amid tight security and a warning from the new regime that demonstrations will not be tolerated.