Mohamed Salmawy, spokesperson for the Committee of 50, said in a press conference on Sunday that exceptional courts are banned in the Constitution. “But the military judiciary is legitimate and not exceptional,” he added. “It exists in countries all around the world.”
Osama Morsy, son of deposed President Mohamed Morsy, said he was banned on Sunday from visiting his father in Borg al-Arab prison as a lawyer, despite getting court permission to visit him.
Osama Morsy, son of deposed President Mohamed Morsy, said he was banned on Sunday from visiting his father in Borg al-Arab prison as a lawyer, despite getting court permission to visit him.
Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon called for Egypt’s controversial law on protests to be amended in a statement Wednesday.
Mohamed Amin al-Mahdy, minister of transitional justice and national reconciliation, has called for a constitutional commission to address transitional justice and ensure rights for all social and political groups. “We must look forward, not backwards,” he said.
A leader at the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy and Reject the Coup said Tuesday protests, staged under the slogan “Massacre of the Century” to commemorate Rabaa al-Adaweya and al-Nahda sit-ins dispersal, will be staged without a permit from the Interior Ministry.
A student at Al-Azhar University died early Thursday after clashes with security forces.
General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi must be revelling in the image of an all-powerful oligarch created by the media.
General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi must be revelling in the image of an all-powerful oligarch created by the media.
Security forces caused deliberate killing of protesters due to excessive force during the Mohamed Mahmoud clashes in 2011, according to human rights lawyer Mohsen Bahnasy.
Marsad Egypt Egyptian Security Sector Observatory