A Molotov cocktail hurled at a Cairo nightclub has killed 18 people, Egyptian security officials said. One of the officials said the attacker was an employee who had been fired from the nightclub in the Agouza area in the centre of the Egyptian capital, Reuters news agency reported. However, a[…]
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned 100 prisoners including three Al Jazeera television journalists on Wednesday, a day before he plans to head to the annual United Nations summit of world leaders. Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, Egyptian Baher Mohamed and Australian Peter Greste were sentenced to three years in prison in[…]
At least six policemen have been wounded in a car bomb attack in front of a police building in Cairo, according to Egypt’s interior ministry. The powerful blast struck northern Cairo district of Shubra al-Khaima in the early hours of Thursday morning. “A man suddenly stopped his car in front[…]
Egypt’s state prosecutor Hisham Barakat has been killed after his motorcade was hit by a bomb blast in the capital Cairo. An earlier report said that Barakat had been suffering from “internal bleeding” and that he was undergoing surgery on Monday at the Nozha hospital in the Egyptian capital. Three[…]
A court in Cairo has adjourned the final ruling on a death sentence recommendation for former president Mohamed Morsi. The judge in the case postponed the verdict until June 16. Morsi entered the courtroom for the hearing on his death sentence on Tuesday as fellow defendants chanted with “down, down[…]
Following an ultimatum calling for the South African government to provide answers on the imprisonment of the Shaykh Abdu Salaam Bassiouni, the Legal Resources Cen¬tre (LRC) is now pursuing legal action on behalf of the Bassiouni family. The family feel aggrieved by the government’s efforts, alleging that the Department of[…]
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[…]
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) has responded to concerns over the detention of elderly South African scholar, Sheikh Abdul Salam Jad Bassiouni, who was arrested at the Cairo International Airport upon his arrival in Egypt. Bassiouni, who holds dual Egyptian and South African citizenship, is reported to[…]
At least 40 people have been killed and dozens injured in a stampede and clashes between police and supporters of Egypt’s Zamalek football club at a game in Cairo, medics say. According to witness accounts, police tried to set up barricades and used tear gas to disperse football fans trying[…]
An Egyptian court on Monday condemned 183 men to hang for the lynchings of 11 police officers by rioters in August 2013. The condemned were found guilty of an attack on a police station on the western outskirts of Cairo in apparent retaliation for the deadly dispersal by police of[…]
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