The court-appointed legal team representing deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi filed an appeal on Saturday at the country’s highest court challenging sentences of life imprisonment and death handed down in June, Morsi’s lawyer said. The Cairo criminal court sentenced Morsi to death over a mass jail break during the 2011[…]
Friday marks the second year anniversary of what has been called the Rabaa massacre. On August the 14th 2013, Egyptian forces opened fire on a sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in Cairo. Thousands of protestors had camped in the square to condemn the ousting of democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi.[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group’s Egypt affiliate, the Sinai Province, has published a still photo of the beheaded body of a Croatian hostage it had threatened to kill last week, the SITE monitoring service reported. The photo included a caption that said “killing of the[…]
Egypt and Saudi Arabia have signed a pact in Cairo aimed at boosting military and economic ties between the two Arab allies. In a statement released after a meeting between President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Saudi Defence Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday, Sisi’s office said[…]
It has been a long week for Egypt’s Sinai residents, many of whom have fled as the situation in the area, following a high-profile attack earlier this month, continues to degenerate. Militants affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) group fired three Grad rockets last week into the coastal Israeli city[…]
Hundreds of Egyptian expats gathered outside Darul Islam masjid in Surry Estate after Jumuah on Friday afternoon to voice their disdain at the current political situation in Egypt. Today marks two years since the military coup which saw the removal of democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi. Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood[…]
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood says another of its members has been killed by security forces two weeks after the man went missing, the movement has told Al Jazeera. The group on Friday said Egyptian soldiers kidnapped two men, a businessman Tarek Khalil, who was in charge of the Brotherhood’s Development Committee,[…]
Capetonians and members of the Egyptian ex-pat community will hold a rally at Darul Islam masjid in Surrey Estate on Friday to mark two years since the Egyptian coup of 2013. July 3 marks the day that Egypt’s military chief Abdel Fatah El Sisi removed democratically elected president Muhammad Morsi[…]
President Mahmoud Abbas expressed condolences to the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as well as solidarity with the Egyptian people Wednesday after an attack in the Sinai Peninsula that left dozens of Egyptian soldiers dead. In his message, the Abbas described the groups responsible for the attack on Egyptian soldiers[…]
The Muslim Brotherhood has warned of “serious repercussions” and has called on its supporters to “rise in revolt” after Egyptian police killed several of its members. Egyptian police raided an apartment in the Cairo suburb of 6th of October on Wednesday and killed at least nine of the outlawed group’s[…]
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