Thousands of Egyptians poured into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Saturday night to protest against controversial verdicts acquitting ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s sons and former security figures. The protesters were joined by Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Mohamed Mursi, Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, and moderate Islamist candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh. Mursi earlier called on Egyptians
A radio host has been hospitalized after being cut 15 times by an unidentified criminal, after he criticized the Prophet Mohammed, on air, according to a Russian news agency. Sergey Aslanyan, 46, was brought to Moscow’s hospital with numerous non-penetrating knife wounds to the chest, neck and arm. According to the police report,
Magdah Fayez Fawzy, 27 years old, and her daughter Jolly, 4 years old, were found slaughtered yesterday in their apartment located in East railway – Luxor (Upper Egypt). The horror was discovered by victim’s husband Haney Assaad Mansour when he returned home yesterday, Friday June 1st at noon. He stated that when he
Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that the abductors of the Lebanese pilgrims in Syria should address their grievances directly with him, and not through kidnapping innocent people. “If your problem is with me, there are lots of ways to resolve it. We can resolve it any way you want, whether through war
Mubarak’s former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, was also sentenced for life in prison for the protesters’ killing in January. Meanwhile, corruption charges against Mubarak’s sons, Alaa and Gamal, were dropped. Scuffles broke out soon after the verdicts were delivered, and chants of “Void, void” and “The people want the judiciary purged” could be
Deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and other defendants standing trial with him must be retried with solid evidence, the Muslim Brotherhood said in a statement issued on Saturday by the campaign of its presidential candidate. “The public prosecutor did not carry out its full duty in gathering adequate evidence to convict the accused for
Egyptians are impatiently waiting for the verdict in what has come to be referred to as “the trial of the century” in which former president Hosni Mubarak, his sons and several of his top aides and officials face charges. Despite the fact Mubarak is not the only defendant, Egyptian public opinion is focusing on
Hundreds of Egyptians marched after the Friday prayers to the iconic al-Tahrir Square to participate in a demonstration protesting former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq’s participation in the presidential election run-off. Protesters called for Shafiq to be banned from the race and for an investigation into corruption allegations against him. Shafiq is scheduled to compete
The Islamist aiming to be Egypt’s president vowed to keep Hosni Mubarak in jail forever and forecast his liberal rivals would back him in an election runoff against a former general he sees as heir to the deposed leader. In his first international media interview since he won the first round ballot, the Muslim
Al-Qaeda announced on Friday that it had freed 27 soldiers captured in southern Yemen last month after they had “repented” and promised not to return to the army. The Partisans of Sharia (Islamic Law), linked to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, said the soldiers had been captured in Al-Kud in Abyan province, where they
