Italian prosecutors in Rome announced on Thursday that they plan to seek charges against four Egyptian security officers over the torture and death of Italian student Giulio Regeni, in a major breakthrough following a lengthy investigation.
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Keeping the Bodies Buried: Egypt’s closing of the inquiry into the Regeni murder is Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s way of avoiding challenges from within
Human rights campaigners around the world celebrated when security agencies in Cairo released three leading members of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) on December 3.
Read More »Egyptian officials to face trial in Italy over Regeni murder
Egyptian security officials will likely face trial in Italy over the murder of PhD student Giulio Regeni, The Times reported on Monday.
Read More »Merkel press office staffer ‘worked for years for Egyptian intelligence’
A man who worked in German Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s press office has been charged with spying for Egypt, prosecutors said on Monday.
Read More »Egypt’s Sisi, Britain’s MI6 chief talk furthering intelligence cooperation
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received on Monday received the Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Richard Moore, in the presence of Head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Services Abbas Kamel, as well as the British Ambassador in Cairo.
Read More »Report: Egypt intelligence chief wins state agencies’ power struggle
The Director of Egypt’s General Intelligence Directorate Major General Abbas Kamel has surfaced as the winner of a long and bitter power struggle between the country’s state agencies, Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper reported.
Read More »Egypt’s GIS chief meets US ambassadors to resolve Libya crisis
Egypt’s General Intelligence Service (GIS) Chief Abbas Kamel met, on Tuesday, with the US Ambassadors in Egypt and Libya, Jonathan Cohen and Richard Norland, respectively, to discuss the latest updates regarding the Libyan crisis.
Read More »Investments and influence: Sisi grants absolute powers to National Security Agency
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi enacted the new amendments to the law on police authority, which came into force immediately after their publication in the official gazette, giving absolute powers to the National Security Agency (NSA).
Read More »Can Egypt help ease tensions between Israel, Hamas?
Egypt is taking new steps in the Gaza Strip in a bid to reduce the tension that has recently escalated between Israel and Hamas, after Palestinian groups resumed the launching of incendiary balloons toward southern Israel on Aug. 6 following a two-month hiatus.
Read More »Britain is training spies from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE
British intelligence agencies have been involved in training senior spies from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE, an investigation by Declassified UK has found. The training by personnel from MI5 and MI6 apparently took place during an 11-day International Intelligence Directors Course in 2019, and also included officials from Jordan, …
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