Human rights activists says more than 500 people have been arrested following last weekend’s return to Tahrir  Square by protestors.

President AbdelFattah El Sisi banned demonstrations after coming to power in a military coup.

However his austerity measures forced by taking a $12 billion bail-out from the International Monetary Fund have caused widespread economic pain.

El Sisi relies on making Egyptians too afraid to go to the streets.

Hosni Mubarak, who  did much the same thing, fell when the military failed to fire to demonstrators.

Protecting their position of power, the soldiers might be less inclined to show restraint this time around.

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They used teargas to disperse protestors in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, site of the mass demonstrations eight years ago that forces President Hosni Mubarak from power. 

Protests have become rare event since the military coup that ousted President Mohamed Moursi in 2013.

Yesterday’s demonstrations in various centers across Egypt were quickly broken up.

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, the former military chief who took power after the coup, has cracked down on the media and opposition.

Hundreds of protestors were arrested yesterday and taken off in armoured military vehicles.

This is a tense time both for Sisi and the Egyptian people.

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An Egyptian referendum has overwhelming given new muscle to strongman President Abdelfattah El Sisi.

It has endorsed a law allowing the former military commander, who came to power in  a 2014 coup, to stay at the helm until 2030.

The referendum was a popularity test for Abdelfattah el Sisi who is now firmly entrenched as another dictatorial  Egyptian leader.

His compatriots voted by 89 percent to 11 to extend his term in office and give him sweeping new powers over parliament and the judiciary.

The turnout in three days of voting that ended last Monday was 44 percent.

Opposition and human rights groups say El Sisi’s regime is more oppressive than that of Hosni Mubarak who unseated by the 2011 Arab Spring.

And they fear things will only get worse. 

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It the first time the procedure has been done in front of the international  media.

Egypt’s unearthed more than a dozen ancient finds this year.

It’s determined to restore the flow of scientists and tourists to the country that suffered a visitor’s drought since the 2011 uprising that overthrew  President Hosni Mubarak and the military coup ousting  his elected successor Mohamed Moursi two years later. 

The latest tombs found by a French-led expedition contained thousands of figurines and colour paintings.

They date back to the 17th and 18th dynasties – the time of Ramses II and Tutankamen – in the 13th century BC,

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Observers in Cairo say Hosni Mubarak ousted in the Arab Spring four years ago could walk free as early as this weekend.

A Cairo court this week overturned the three year sentence for embezzlement against longtime Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

A retrial has been ordered for Mubarak who was convicted last May of defrauding the state to the tune of seventeen –and-a-half million dollars.

Lawyers for the 86-year-old, who was wheeled into court on his bed, say he should be freed immediately.

Former army commander-turned president Abdel Fattah el Sisi has to decide whether it is safer to keep Mubarak in the military hospital where he has already served his sentence.

Two months ago, Mubarak was cleared of conspiring to kill protestors during the Arab Spring uprising.

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