Egypt

Egypt sentences Mohamed Morsi to death

An Egypt court has sentenced former President Mohamed Morsi to death for a mass prison break in 2011. The court ruled on Saturday that the sentencing of Morsi and 105 others will be referred to the Grand Mufti, the highest religious authority in Egypt, for confirmation. Many of those sentenced[…]

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Fears over Egypt surveillance plan

A plan to install surveillance cameras on streets across Egypt has raised fears that citizens’ privacy will be infringed upon and that a further crackdown on dissent may be on the way. Egypt’s interior ministry will set up a nationwide camera surveillance system to “combat crime and terrorism,” local newspapers[…]

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Analysis backs veracity of leaked Egypt recordings

Recently leaked audio recordings of controversial conversations between senior Egyptian officials have “no indications” of being fabricated, according to an analysis that has been provided to British police, the New York Times has reported. For several months, a number of recorded conversations have been leaked to the media, including one[…]

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Blade and Bassiouni: Tale of diplomatic no go?

OPINION by Iqbal Jassat – The dawn of winter in South Africa marks a drop in temperature as is nature’s norm. However, in direct contrast, temperatures are rising in the country’s diplomatic arena. Thanks to Israel and Egypt, heat generated by their foolish actions may offset some of South Africa’s[…]

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DIRCO given ultimatum on Bassiouni

The Department of International Relations (DIRCO) has been given a deadline until the end of business on Wednesday to respond to the Bassiouni family on questions around the imprisonment of  Johannesburg-based scholar Shaykh Abdus Salaam Bassiouni in Cairo. Shaykh Bassiouni is an Egyptian-South African citizen who has been detained without[…]

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Egypt journos face interrogation over report

Journalists in Egypt have, for decades, been wrestling with the country’s Interior Ministry over press freedoms and the repeated detention of reporters. This week, though, tensions escalated when Al-Masry Al-Youm, a privately-owned daily newspaper, published a seven-page investigative report on alleged police brutality since 2012. Hours after the story went[…]

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Egypt, a brutal regime: Tamimi

“For people in South Africa who are familiar with the Apartheid years, the current regime in Cairo is very similar to its tactics of suppressing people, imprisoning them, sentencing them to death, and killing them at random. It is a very brutal regime that sees power in sheer military strength,[…]

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SA reaction to Morsi sentence disappointing: analyst

While an Egyptian court’s sentencing of former president Mohamed Morsi does not come as a surprise, the lack of strong international reaction to the matter is disappointing. That was according to the Media Review Network’s (MRN) executive member Iqbal Jassat on Tuesday, commenting on the controversial trial which has destabilised[…]

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Bassiouni’s son speaks out

The son of jailed Egyptian-born scholar, Sheikh Abdul Salam Jad Bassiouni has expressed concern over the treatment of his father, who has been held in a Cairo prison without charge since December. Bassiouni, who lives in and currently holds a South African passport, was arrested upon his arrive at the[…]

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