Showing posts with label Egypt news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egypt news. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Egypt court rejects Muslim Brotherhood appeal on ban

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Cairo: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood fizzled in an endeavor on Wednesday to topple a court controlling banning it, the state news org said, an alternate hit to the crippled Islamist development. A court in September prohibited the Brotherhood after the guard toppled President Mohamed Morsi in July taking after mass dissents against his principle. The argument against his Brotherhood

Monday, November 4, 2013

Egypt's Morsi arrives in court for trial

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Cairo: Egypt's removed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi was carried Monday to a courthouse to face trial over nonconformist passings, raising feelings of trepidation of restored roughness four months after the guard toppled him. Morsi's supporters, battered by a ridiculous

Friday, November 1, 2013

Egypt detains 22 Brotherhood women before Morsi trial


Alexandria: Egypt has kept 22 ladies parts of the Muslim Brotherhood, a security official said on Friday, fuelling pressures days before ousted President Mohamed Morsi and 14 different

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Egyptian Islamists call for daily protests before Morsi trial


Cairo: Supporters of Egypt's removed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi approached Thursday for every day challenges in the four prior days his trial on November 4, raising the peril of additional brutality in an emergency that has recently set back the ol' finances many lives. Morsi, who was

Egyptian students protest after Brotherhood leader arrested


Cairo: Egyptian police let go teargas at challenging learners at Cairo's Al-Azhar school on Wednesday hours after powers advertised the confinement of Muslim Brotherhood guide Essam El-Erian, part of a crackdown against the Islamist development. Understudies at the nation's top establishment for Islamic teachings have been showing for weeks in backing of expelled Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, whom the armed force toppled in July after mass dissents against his standard. The head of Al-Azhar school had approached the police to enter grounds to "ensure souls and lands", consistent with an inside service articulation. Showings at Al-Azhar are a delicate matter since the establishment has truly toed the administration line. Erian, the representative pioneer of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice gathering, was taken into authority at an early stage Wednesday from a living arrangement in New Cairo where he had been secluded from everything. "He's been captured and portions will soon be discharged," an Interior Ministry source told Reuters. Neighborhood media circled a photograph of what they portrayed as the minute he was captured, demonstrating a grinning Erian standing by a couch with two stuffed duffle sacks. Numerous Brotherhood pioneers have been confined since the guard dismissed Morsi, Egypt's first unreservedly chose president, and announced a guide prompting races. Morsi, Erian and 12 other Brotherhood pioneers are required to go on trial on Monday on charges of affecting viciousness. The charges identify with the passings of around the range of twelve individuals in crashes outside the presidential royal residence keep going December after Morsi rankled dissidents with an announcement broadening his forces. The trial of three senior Muslim Brotherhood pioneers on charges of prompting brutality was ended on Tuesday after the judge withdrew from the case for unexplained explanations. The trials are liable to make more political change in Egypt, which has a peace settlement with Israel and controls the Suez Canal, a basic worldwide exchange track. The Brotherhood, which requests Morsi's restoration, blames the guard for arranging an overthrow that subverted majority rule picks up made since a famous uprising toppled czar Hosni Mubarak in 2011. No less than 1,000 individuals, incorporating parts of the security compels, were executed in the savagery that accompanied Morsi's topple. Several his supporters were slaughtered when police compels stormed two dissent camps on August 14. An Egyptian court in September banned the Muslim Brotherhood gather and seized their stores to attempt to pulverize the development, which the administration blames for prompting brutality and terrorism. The Brotherhood's teach and progression helped it win races after the rebellion that toppled Mubarak, finally driving Mursi into force. Presently the armed force headed government and its supporters see the Brotherhood as a terrorist amass and adversary of the state. The security compels and police, dreaded and loathed under Mubarak, are praised for getting serious about the organisation. The Brotherhood says it is submitted to tranquil dissent. However as parts seek refuge from all forms of outside contact, its key building pieces — nearby aggregations of seven parts reputed to be usras - are under force. Experts of the administration say it is coming to be more dictator, smothering contradiction and restricting opportunity of discourse. Human rights bunches and some liberal government officials have communicated caution over a draft law under open deliberation that might put intense limitations on dissents. New York-based Human Rights Watch said the law might give police full power to boycott challenges in Egypt. "This draft law would adequately order the police to boycott all dissents by and large and to utilize constrain to scatter continuous challenges," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East chief at Human Rights Watch. "The last law will be a paramount marker of the degree to which the new government is set to consider politic

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Egypt detains senior Brotherhood leader in Cairo


Cairo: Egyptian powers on Wednesday kept senior Muslim Brotherhood figure Essam al-Erian, one of the last not many pioneers of the Islamist development to have escaped a security crackdown, the inner part service said. Security drives captured Erian, agent pioneer of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, in the early hours of Wednesday at a flat in east Cairo where he had been sequestered from everything. Pictures of Erian circling on social media, clearly taken throughout his capture, demonstrated to him grinning and making a signal symbolising the denial of the military's ouster of president Mohamed Morsi in July. Erian was moved to Tora jail, where a significant part of the development's administration is, no doubt held, and open prosecutors have started addressing him, the official Mena news organization reported. The pioneer confronts charges of instigating viciousness on some events. The quest for Erian had developed to eight areas, consistent with a security official cited by Mena. Egypt's armed force established powers started an enormous crackdown on Morsi's supporters in August, brutally scattering two dissent camps in Cairo and making mass captures. More than 1,000 individuals have been executed since Morsi's ouster - mostly his supporters - and the powers have kept about 2,000 Islamists, incorporating the greater part of the Muslim Brotherhood's authority.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Egypt judges withdraw from Brotherhood chief's trial: AFP


Cairo: The three judges directing in the trial of Muslim Brotherhood boss Mohamed Badie and his assistants withdrew from the incidents at the begin of a session on Tuesday. Before their choice to venture down the judges requested that the respondents press on to be held in authority, an Afp journalist in the court said. Badie and his two delegates, Khairat al-Shater and Rashad al-Bayoumi, face charges identified with the passings of dissidents who stormed the Brotherhood's Cairo home office on June 30. What added up to 32 different respondents are continuously arraigned plus Badie, Shater and Bayoumi. None of the 35 respondents were in the court on Tuesday.

Egypt kung fu champion 'stripped of gold medal' for supporting Morsi


London, October 29: A kung fu champion in Egypt has been stripped of a gold award for demonstrating uphold for expelled President Mohammed Morsi. Mohammed Youssef has additionally been banned from speaking to his nation. Youssef was captured at a competition in Russia wearing a T-shirt with an image demonstrating solidarity with ace Morsi nonconformists. Egypt's government has gotten serious about supporters of Morsi after he was dismissed in July, the Bbc reports. Consistent with the report, Youssef's sibling Hammam said that the jock was sent home early from the challenge and investigated on landing. The gold award he had won was additionally usurped. It is vague if the boycott will be perpetual. (Ani)

Morsi rejects authority of Egypt court due to try him


October 28: Egypt's removed president Mohamed Morsi has dismissed the power of the court that is because of attempt him one week from now for actuation to homicide, his supporters said. Morsi, an Islamist hailing from the Muslim Brotherhood who was Egypt's first uninhibitedly chose guide, was removed by the military on July 3 in the company of enormous challenges against his year-long principle. He is because of stand trial with 14 others on November 4 for instigation to homicide in association with fatal crashes between his supporters and adversaries outside the presidential royal residence in December 2012. "No legal counselors will be protecting president Mohamed Morsi, not Egyptians or outsiders, on the grounds that the president does not recognise the trial or any movement and forms that come about because of the overthrow," the Anti-Coup Alliance, headed by the Muslim Brotherhood, said in a proclamation. The assembly said a group of Egyptian attorneys might be going to the trial with Morsi, yet just "to watch transactions, not to shield him." It said its proclamation was aroused by false reports in genius military media outlets adage the Muslim Brotherhood had named legal counselors from Turkey and Qatar to speak to Morsi. The assembly approached universal human rights activists and legal counselors to go to the trial to see direct "the trampling of equity." The Anti-Coup Alliance has called for mass challenges upon the arrival of the trial, raising feelings of trepidation of further savagery in the profoundly polarised nation. Security drives started a huge crackdown on Morsi's supporters in August, fiercely scattering two challenge camps in Cairo. More than 1,000 individuals have been murdered since Morsi's ouster - primarily his supporters - and the powers have captured in the range of 2,000 Islamists, incorporating a large portion of the Muslim Brotherhood's administration. Morsi himself has been held incommunicado in military guardianship since his ouster. Islamist activists have in the mean time assaulted Coptic Christians and security constrains, fundamentally in Upper Egypt and the undeniably unstable Sinai Peninsula.

Egypt suspends kung fu gold medallist over pro-Islamist shirt


October 28: Egypt has suspended a kung fu champion who acknowledged his gold decoration at an universal competition wearing a T-shirt supporting his nation's harried Islamist development, a games official said. Mohamed Youssef won a gold decoration in the 90 kilogram Wushu classification in the World Combat Games held this month in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He wore a T-shirt decorated with a dark hand giving a four finger salute, the indication of the Islamist Rabaa al-Adawiya challenge camp that police brutally scattered in August. Youssef showed "unsuitable conduct and a particular botch," Gamal al-Gazzar, agent for the Egyptian Wushu Kung Fu Federation told Afp. "The player has been authoritatively suspended until he is explored," Gazzar said. Youssef beat Iranian Arman Baziari in the last on Saturday. Many Islamist supporters of expelled president Mohamed Morsi were slaughtered when police got serious about their dissent camps in Cairo on August 14. No less than 2,000 Islamists have been captured from that point forward. Morsi, chose in June 2012, controlled for a prior year the military ousted him taking after enormous challenges requesting his renunciation.

Monday, October 28, 2013

Three policemen killed in Egypt


Cairo : Gunmen Monday shot dead three cops at a security checkpoint in the city of Mansoura in Egypt's northern Dakahlia governorate, as per media reports. The day by day Al-Ahram's site refered to observers as saying that around four shooters on cruisers started shooting at the checkpoint on the edge of the Nile Delta city. The region was under a security lockdown after the strike, and agents recouped 60 projectile housings at the scene, Al-Ahram said. An Egyptian cop ceased to exist and four recruits were harmed Oct 22 in a besieging in rebellious North Sinai in the middle of a surge in ambushes by suspected activists in the area, security sources said. Activists have ventures up their ambushes on security faculty in North Sinai region and somewhere else in the nation since the guard removed justly chose Islamist president Mohamed Morsi July 3 in the middle of mass dissents against his standard. Key ranges with a substantial police and military vicinity, for example the Suez Canal urban communities have additionally been ambushed, Al-Ahram reported. More than 100 parts of Egypt's security constrains have been killed in the Sinai Peninsula since right on time July, the military said a month ago.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Gulf stability crucial for Egypt security: PM


October 27: Solidness in the Gulf governments is vital for Egypt's security, Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi today said, a day after the United Arab Emirates swore Cairo an additional Usd 3.9 billion in support. The Uae and other Gulf governments supported the July 3 oust of Egypt's Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and have pledged to help the break government address the investment pulverization wrought by two years of political turmoil. "Inlet solidness is one of the vital mainstays of the steadiness of Egypt's security," Beblawi told news hounds here. The leader of the military-instated government included that "any damage" to the Gulf state's strength would straightforwardly hurt Egyptian national security. In the mean time, official Emirati news office Wam said Usd 1 billion of the recently swore Uae finances are because of head off to back Egypt's fuel needs while. The leftover is "pointed at enhancing the living conditions, lives and human advancement of the Egyptian individuals through various ventures," Wam said. The Uae had long ago stored an extra Usd 2 billion in Egypt's national bank to be held without premium, keeping in mind the end goal to prop up Cairo's coin. It additionally exchanged Usd 1 billion in support in July. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait swore Usd 9 billion in support to Cairo inside days of the armed force's topple of Morsi, which came in the company of enormous challenges against the year-long govern of Egypt's first unreservedly chose president. Beblawi's visit to the Uae came as the Gulf state is because of attempt 14 Egyptians, plus 16 Emiratis, on energizes of purportedly setting an illicit limb of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood. The litigants incorporate specialists, designers and school teachers who were captured between November 2012 and January 2013, Human Rights Watch said.

Monday, October 21, 2013

55 students arrested in Egypt clash


Cairo: At least 55 students were arrested Sunday after they clashed with Egyptian security forces during an anti-military protest at Al-Azhar University here, media reported. The clashes took place when the students tried to move their protest out of campus. The security forces fired tear gas to disperse the protesters, who were seen throwing rocks at the forces, Al Jazeera reported citing an interior ministry statement. The protest was held after the Anti-Coup Alliance called for a national uprising against the military-backed leadership that took power after president Mohamed Morsi was ousted July 3. Protesters were also demanding the release of political detainees. Similar demonstrations were held at Cairo University and in Abu Hamad district of El-Sharqiyah province. Al-Azhar is in the same Cairo suburb as the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, the scene of a former pro-Morsi sit-in where hundreds of protesters were killed as security forces broke up the sit-in.