Egypt is seeking to delay the completion of investigations into the killing of the Italian PhD researcher, Giulio Regeni, who was murdered in Cairo in early 2016, Egyptian diplomatic sources reported yesterday.

Local media outlets lauded the “great capture” of the most wanted Egyptian terrorist Hisham Ashmawy, who was arrested in 2018 in Derna and handed over by the Libyan army to the General Intelligence Security (GIS) in Egypt on Tuesday.

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused both Egyptian security forces and jihadists of committing “war crimes” in their confrontation in the restive North Sinai region.

Egyptian security services banned a memorial service in Cairo on Wednesday for Laila Marzouk, the mother of an Egyptian whose death and torture at the hands of Egyptian police was one of the main triggers of the 2011 revolution.

Egyptian authorities released a number of secondary school students, who were detained for several hours after protesting against the new education system.

Egyptian secondary school students have staged nationwide protests over technical issues during end-of-year exams that started on Sunday – only to be met with violence by security forces.

The Interior Ministry announced the killing of two criminals in an exchange of fire with security forces in Daqahlia on Wednesday.

Egyptian security forces have killed 16 suspected militants in North Sinai and found a stash of weapons and explosives in their hideouts, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday, reports Reuters.

Egypt’s interior ministry yesterday said it had killed 12 individuals in the capital city of Cairo for allegedly “planning to cause chaos across the country.”

Nine officers accused of killing a whole family in 2013 were among the 560 prisoners pardoned by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Thursday.