The Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip deployed forces along the border with Egypt on Wednesday after attacks in Sinai by radicals affiliated with the Islamic State killed over 70 people. Iyad al-Buzem, spokesman of the ministry, said security forces and patrols were deployed along the southern border to[…]
Ramadan has been a heart-wrenching time for the Bassiouni family, as they grapple with the reality of their beloved father and ustaadh spending the most sacred month of the year inside prison. Shaykh Abdus Salaam Bassiouni, an Egyptian-South African citizen, was arrested in December last year on suspicion that he[…]
At least 64 Egyptian soldiers were killed as radicals launched multiple attacks on targets in the northern Sinai peninsula, Egyptian officials said. Egyptian army spokesman Muhammad Samir said that 70 radicals attacked five military checkpoints in the northern Sinai, with 22 killed in gun battles with Egyptian troops. The army[…]
Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, appears poised to further crack down on dissent after announcing he would fast-track the judicial process in the aftermath of the assassination of the country’s lead prosecutor. On Tuesday, Sisi promised new laws that will allow Egyptian courts to speed up hearings, and appeared to[…]
An Egyptian court has said it will announce the verdict in the long-running retrial of three Al Jazeera journalists at the end of July. Closing arguments in the trial of Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy were heard on Monday , after the case was adjourned on eight previous occasions. A[…]
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 criminal court in the Egyptian capital Cairo has postponed until June 25 a trial in which Mohamed Morsi, the deposed president, and 10 others are charged with leaking classified documents to Qatar. Morsi appeared in Sunday’s session for the first time wearing the red uniform reserved for prisoners to[…]
Egypt is facing international criticism after it upheld the death sentence against deposed President Mohamed Morsi, with the US, its military ally, calling it “deeply troubling” and “politically motivated”. The UN chief also expressed concern, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the verdicts against Morsi and leaders of the[…]
“We are all Bassiouni” were the chants reverberating through Sandton in Johannesburg on Friday afternoon, as community members and civil society activists called for the release of Egyptian South African alim Shaykh Abdus Salaam Bassiouni. Sandton in Johannesburg came alive with the #FreeBassiouni protest held outside the African Union Summit,[…]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Thursday cancelled a trip to South Africa to attend the African Union Summit after a group of lawyers filed an official legal request for his arrest. The Egyptian president was supposed to arrive Friday in Johannesburg to lead his country’s delegation in the African[…]
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