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Egypt policemen jailed over death of lawyer Karim Handy - BBC News Sat, 12 Dec 2015 13:19:19 GMT

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Egypt policemen jailed over death of lawyer Karim Handy
BBC News
A court in Egypt has given five-year jail terms to two policemen convicted of torturing a lawyer to death. Karim Hamdy was detained in Cairo in February, accused of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. A forensic report showed he died two days ...
Egypt Lawyer Challenges Law That Says Writers Can Be JailedABC News
Egypt military court sentences 220 Brotherhood membersPress TV

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Egypt to Offer Saudis `Major' Projects as King's Son Plans Visit - Bloomberg Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:19:51 GMT

Egypt to Offer Saudis `Major' Projects as King's Son Plans Visit
Bloomberg
Egypt said Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman will visit Cairo within days as the two governments prepare to discuss aid and major investments to support an Egyptian economy struggling amid a dollar crunch hurting business ...

Dublin's ibrahim halawa remembered as he spends 20th birthday in egypt prison - Daily Mail Sat, 12 Dec 2015 20:43:42 GMT

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Dublin's ibrahim halawa remembered as he spends 20th birthday in egypt prison
Daily Mail
It is feared Halawa, who was on his summer holiday in the Egyptian capital when violence flared, will face the death penalty when a mass trial of 494 alleged dissenters resumes on Tuesday. The legal proceedings have been repeatedly delayed since 2013.

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Egypt Is Intensifying Its Crackdown on Journalists, Rights Group Warns - New York Times Fri, 11 Dec 2015 22:22:03 GMT

Egypt Is Intensifying Its Crackdown on Journalists, Rights Group Warns
New York Times
CAIRO — The Egyptian government has intensified its crackdown against members of the news media in recent weeks, arresting one prominent journalist and preparing to bring another to trial, as the number of reporters detained in Egypt has hit its ...

What Egypt's election results tell you about the public mood - Al-Arabiya Sat, 12 Dec 2015 10:43:01 GMT

Al-Arabiya
What Egypt's election results tell you about the public mood
Al-Arabiya
The results of Egypt's 2015 parliamentary elections were both expected and surprising. While the general political tendencies of Egyptian voters were more or less manifested in the results of the first two stages of the post-Muslim Brotherhood road map ...

Freed From Egyptian Prison, Bedouin 'Spy' Feels 'Very Lucky to Be Israeli' - Haaretz Sat, 12 Dec 2015 19:40:00 GMT

Haaretz
Freed From Egyptian Prison, Bedouin 'Spy' Feels 'Very Lucky to Be Israeli'
Haaretz
Tarabin, a 34-year-old Bedouin who was imprisoned in Egypt after being convicted of spying for Israel, was released on Thursday after what Israel said was the completion of his prison sentence, while Egyptian authorities said he was released as part of ...

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Egypt?s Second Twitter Revolution - Daily Beast Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:02:16 GMT

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Egypt?s Second Twitter Revolution
Daily Beast
In the last six months, dozens of social media campaigns have been launched across Egypt. In an increasingly furtive state—where families are not told for weeks about their loved one's capture—social media has become a forum for both the state and ...

Trial opens of Egypt's former agriculture minister accused of taking bribes - Reuters Sat, 12 Dec 2015 13:56:00 GMT

Trial opens of Egypt's former agriculture minister accused of taking bribes
Reuters
Egypt ranked 94th out of 175 countries on Transparency International's 2014 corruption perceptions index. The country's 2011 uprising was partially driven by a desire to end entrenched corruption under autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak. (Reporting by ...

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Egypt, Greece, Cyprus: Partnership amid economic political difficulties? - Daily News Egypt Sat, 12 Dec 2015 16:02:36 GMT

Daily News Egypt
Egypt, Greece, Cyprus: Partnership amid economic political difficulties?
Daily News Egypt
A second trilateral meeting between Egypt, Greece and Cyprus was held last Wednesday in Athens, and a joint collaboration between the three countries is being shaped. The gas explorations in the eastern Mediterranean have resulted in crucial ...

Egypt terminates four state lawyers for joining pro-Brotherhood movement - Ahram Online Sat, 12 Dec 2015 19:08:48 GMT

Egypt terminates four state lawyers for joining pro-Brotherhood movement
Ahram Online
Egypt's State Lawsuits Authority has sacked four of its litigators on Saturday, accusing them of joining a pro-Muslim Brotherhood movement. "We terminated their tenure them after we found out that they had attended meetings of the Judges for Egypt's ...