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    Egyptian Court Upholds Morsi’s Death Sentence

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Cairo Criminal Court on Tuesday has confirmed the death sentence for deposed president Mohammed Morsi for orchestrating a prison escape during the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time ruler Hosni Mubarak. Prosecutors charged Morsi and other leaders in the Muslim Brotherhood for conspiring with […] More

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    Egypt Court To Retry Mubarak

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Ousted Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, has been ordered to stand trial all over again over the killing of protesters in 2011 by an Egyptian appeals court. The former president was cleared in a retrial in November 2014 after he was initially jailed for […] More

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    Egypt: German Tourist Killed In Shark Attack

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Egyptian Police has confirmed the death of a German tourist in the country. He was killed in a rare shark attack off the Red Sea resort on Sunday. The shark reportedly bit off the 52-year-old man’s leg at the knee. The attack, […] More

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    Egypt: Al Jazeera Journalists Trial Adjourned Again

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow An Egyptian court has adjourned the trial of Al Jazeera journalists, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, till March 19, after witnesses of the prosecution failed to appear in court. Their first hearing on February 23 was postponed – also because witnesses did not […] More

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    Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Get Death, Life Sentences

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow An Egyptian court has sentenced four members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood organisation to death while 14 others were handed life imprisonment. Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and his deputy Khairat al-Shater were among those sentenced to life imprisonment on Saturday, along with […] More

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    Egypt Jails Prominent Blogger And Activist

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow A prominent blogger and pro-democracy activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, has been jailed by an Egyptian Court for five years after his retrial for violating protest law on Monday. He was previously given a 15-year jail term in the case over his alleged role […] More

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    Egypt Court Overturns Mubarak Fraud Convictions

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow An Egyptian court has overturned the fraud convictions of former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons and ordered a retrial. Mubarak was imprisoned for three years in May 2014 after he was found guilty of fraudulently billing the government for $14m of […] More

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    Egypt Court Drops Charges Against Mubarak

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow A court in Egypt has dropped charges against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of 239 protesters during the 2011 uprising against his government. Charges against seven of Mubarak’s senior officials, including his interior minister, were also dropped. His sons Gamal and […] More

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    CAF Expels Morocco

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Confederation of African Football, CAF, has confirmed the expulsion of Morocco from the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations after the country’s refusal to host the tournament because of its fears over the Ebola outbreak in the West African sub- region. CAF expelled Morocco, who […] More

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    Egypt Accused Of Human Rights Abuse

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Human Rights Watch, HRW has accused the United Nations, UN and its allies of failing in its responsibility to condemn the continued abuse of human rights in a crisis prone Egypt. HRW said the UN and all allies of Egypt should use the […] More

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    Egypt imposes state of emergency in Sinai

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Egypt has declared a three-month state of emergency in parts of the Sinai Peninsula after at least 31 soldiers were killed in two attacks there. The decision was made after Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi called a meeting of the National Defence Council […] More

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    Egypt Holds Presidential Polls

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Amidst tight security mounted by the police and the military, millions of Egyptian voters are casting presidential ballots across the nation. The election, which is the second in two years, was scheduled to hold on Monday and Tuesday and has just two candidates […] More