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Egypt Sami Anan’s whereabouts unknown: Son | MadaMasr

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The whereabouts of former Chief of Staff Sami Anan, who was arrested and brought before the military prosecution after announcing his presidential bid, remain unknown, his son Samir Anan told Mada Masr on Wednesday.

After attending a six-hour interrogation with Anan on Tuesday, his lawyer from the Dina Hussein Law Firm was told that he would be released and sent home. However, Anan’s family has been unable to reach him since, according to Samir.

The former chief of staff was arrested from his car and brought before the military prosecution early on Tuesday, right before the Armed Forces’ statement on Anan’s “violations and crimes” was broadcast, Mostafa al-Shal, the head of his personal office, previously told Mada Masr.

Samir’s comments follow Tuesday evening media reports that the National Elections Authority (NEA) removed Anan’s name from the national electoral register due to his contested military status, citing an NEA statement, rendering the former chief of staff ineligible to participate in the 2018 electoral process as a candidate or as a voter. The NEA spokesperson confirmed in statements to the media that Anan’s name had been removed from the register, adding that copes of the statement in question were not available to the press.

In its televised statement broadcast on Tuesday afternoon, the Armed Forces accused the presidential candidate of announcing his bid for office without first acquiring a permit from the military, aiming to incite a rift between the Armed Forces and the public, as well as forging his end of service documents. A few hours after the statement was aired, Anan’s official campaign Facebook page announced that the campaign was suspended until further notice. 

The Cairo Court of Urgent Matters ruled on Tuesday in favor of lawsuit filed by lawyer Samir Sabry requesting the release of documents proving that Anan is enlisted as a military reserve officer, according to the privately owned Al-Shorouk newspaper.

Anan formally announced his intent to run for presidency via an online video on Friday night, released on the heels of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s announcement that he intends to seek a second term in office. In the video, Anan demanded that civilian and military state institutions refrain from showing an “unconstitutional bias toward a president who might leave his chair in a few months.”

Ousted President Mohamed Morsi forcibly retired Anan from his position as chief of staff of the Armed Forces in August 2012, using the same decree which saw Sisi replace former Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi.

Presidential candidates have until 2 pm on January 29 to submit the necessary paperwork to be officially recognized as candidates by the NEA. To be eligible to run in the 2018 presidential election, Egypt’s Constitution and presidential elections law stipulate that candidates must collect endorsements from at least 20 members of Parliament, or from 25,000 eligible voters from 15 different governorates, with a minimum of 1,000 endorsements from each governorate.

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Egypte : La peine de prison des 2 policiers qui ont battu à mort Khaled Saïd confirmée. Son décès a été l’un des déclencheurs de la révolte de 2011 - Ahram

A Cairo court on Wednesday rejected appeals by two policemen, upholding 10-year jail sentence over the torturing to death of Alexandria native Khaled Said, whose murder in June 2010 galvanised the protest movement that led the outbreak of the 25 January revolution, a judicial source told Ahram Online.

The decision by the Court of Cassation, Egypt’s highest criminal court and legal authority, is final and cannot be appealed.

The pair were sentenced to seven years in prison in 2011.

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Egypte - « Le gouvernement Sissi clairement prêt à tout pour écraser l’opposition intérieure, qu’elle soit laïque ou islamiste » dénonce HRW après la condamnation à 3 ans de prison de 23 personnes qui avaient manifesté contre la loi anti-manifestations | Communiqué Human Rights Watch

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A Cairo court of minor offenses handed down three-year sentences to 23 people for breaking an anti-protest law that allows Egyptian authorities broad powers to ban or disperse most public demonstrations. One of those sentenced on October 20, 2014, Yara Sallam, is a researcher with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, one of the country’s leading human rights organizations. The court also fined the defendants 10,000 EGP (US$1,400) each.

Police arrested the group on June 21 at a peaceful protest where they were calling for the repeal of the law, which then-interim President Adly Mansour issued by decree on November 24, 2013. The defendants can appeal the verdict.

“It’s back to business as usual in Egypt, with the Egyptian government brazenly trampling on the rights of its citizens and Western governments supporting it,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director. “The Sisi government will clearly go to any length to crush domestic opposition, whether secular or Islamist.”

Rights activists estimate that authorities have arrested hundreds for breaking the law, which grants the Interior Ministry an absolute right to ban protests or public meetings on the basis of “serious information or evidence that there will be a threat to peace and security,” without requiring any proof. ”

Egypt appellate court annuls imprisonment of ex-PM Hisham Qandil - Politics - Ahram Online

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A Cairo court has accepted the appeal presented by ex-PM Hisham Qandil and reversed his one-year jail sentence.

In September 2013 the Cairo Misdemeanour Court upheld a ruling against former Prime Minister Hisham Qandil sentencing him to one year in prison for failing to implement the Administrative Court verdict ordering the re-nationalisation of the Tanta Flax and Oil Company.

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Cairo court rejects activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah court recusal request - Ahram Online
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A Cairo appeals court has rejected Saturday a recusal request by activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah in a case related to charges of organising an illegal protest.

Jailed Jazeera journalist tells #Cairo court victim of “massive injustice”
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An Australian journalist with the #Al_Jazeera broadcaster on trial in #Egypt on Saturday described his ordeal as a “massive injustice,” after spending more than four months in jail. The award-winning Peter Greste is on trial with 19 co-defendants, including five Al Jazeera journalists, for allegedly defaming the country and ties to the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood. Saturday’s hearing coincided with World Press Freedom Day. read more

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Court designates Ansar Beit al-Maqdes a terrorist group | Mada Masr

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The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters has declared Ansar Beit al-Maqdes a terrorist organization on Sunday, state-owned Al-Ahram reported

Egyptian policeman jailed over deaths of 36 Brotherhood members
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A Cairo court sentenced a police officer to 10 years in prison with labor on Tuesday in connection with the deaths of 36 #Muslim_Brotherhood members and supporters last year, judicial sources said. Three other policemen were given one-year suspended sentences. The Interior Ministry said at the time that the Islamists died during an attempted prison break, saying they had been suffocated by tear gas. A legal source said the men had died from asphyxiation in the back of a crammed police van. (Reuters)

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Thousands in Gaza protest #Egypt's outlawing of #Hamas
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Thousands of Hamas supporters rallied in the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest against a Cairo court decision banning the Palestinian Islamist movement from operating in Egypt. Waving Egyptian flags and Hamas banners, the demonstrators gathered after Friday prayers and then marched to the former Egyptian embassy which has been closed since 2007. The marchers held aloft placards called on Egypt to revoke Tuesday’s decision, including to seize Hamas’s assets, chanting “resistance, our way is resistance!” read more

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Cairo court outlaws Hamas activities in Egypt - Ahram Online

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Appeal of Egyptian activists against jail sentence adjourned to 10 February - Ahram Online
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A Cairo court has delayed an appeal against the jail sentences of well-known political activists Ahmed Douma, Ahmed Maher and Mohamed to 10 February.

The appellate court also refused on Monday to suspend the jail sentences handed out to Douma, Maher and Adel for allegedly staging unauthorised protests and attacking security forces last November.

The three men are leading figures of the protests that ignited the popular revolt against deposed president Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Maher founded the April 6 Youth movement and Adel is an active member of the group. Douma is a long-time activist. Together they were sentenced last month to three years in jail and fined LE50,000.

Landmark verdict nulls Tanta Flax privatization |
Mada Masr Saturday, September 28, 2013
By: Jano Charbel
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A Cairo court upheld on Saturday a previous ruling nullifying the privatization contract of the Tanta Flax and Oils Company, in what is considered a landmark verdict.

The Supreme Administrative Court in the Dokki district of Giza issued the final verdict on Saturday, nullifying the privatization contract of the Tanta Flax and Oils Company which was sold to Saudi investor Abdel Ellah al-Kaaki in 2005.

The ruling upheld a prior verdict issued on September 21, 2011 by the Administrative Court, which found that Tanta Flax had been sold for well below its real market value, at a mere LE84 million when its real market value was estimated at LE211 million in 1996.

Some estimates even suggest that the company was actually worth around LE500 million.

Tanta Flax, along with the Shebin el-Kom Textile Company and the Nasr Boilers Company, all had their privatization contracts nullified by the court in September 2011.

The privatization of Omar Effendi department stores and the Nile Cotton Ginning Company were also dealt a similar fate in May and December 2011, respectively.

The chief justice presiding over today’s case announced that “all appeals against the previous verdict are rejected.” While this means that the rulings cannot be appealed in local Egyptian courts, al-Kaaki has reportedly taken the cases to international arbitration.

The courtroom erupted with celebration when the workers heard the verdict, which they’d eagerly anticipated for years. Workers from other privatized companies, who had come to stand in solidarity with the Tanta Flax workers, also cheered in hopes for similar verdicts.

Gamal Othman, a worker and activist who had been sacked from the Tanta Flax and Oils Company several years earlier, said, “Today our company has returned to its rightful owner and rightful place: the public sector.”

He added, “We just hope the authorities enforce the verdict, to resume company operations in full capacity and to reinstate all sacked workers.”

Since the late 1990s, numerous committees have been established to salvage the state-owned textile companies — often resulting in privatizations, mass-layoffs and factory closures.

While the three public-sector textile companies, which had been privatized under the Hosni Mubarak regime, had their privatization contracts nullified in 2011, the state has repeatedly declined to reabsorb these three companies back into the public sector — thus leaving thousands of workers in a state of limbo.

From its original workforce of some 2,300 prior to the 2005 privatization, Tanta Flax had downsized to fewer than 200 workers, as the majority of its production lines came to a halt.

Workers claim that al-Kaaki had sought to sell-off both the factories and the land on which the company is based, in Mit Hebeish, located in the Delta governorate of Gharbiya.

Neither al-Kaaki, nor his administrators could be reached for comment.

On Saturday, the Supreme Administrative Court adjourned another trial pertaining to the privatization of the Nile Cotton Ginning Company. The verdict in this trial, along with the verdicts pertaining to other companies’ privatization contracts, has not yet been determined.

On April 17, 2013 a court sentenced former Prime Minister Hisham Qandil to one year in prison, along with his removal from public office, for failing to uphold the December 2011 verdict nullifying the privatization contract of Nile Cotton Ginning.

Qandil is still appealing the verdict.

Egypt blocks YouTube over anti-Islam film
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A Cairo court has ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing website YouTube for a month for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world.

Judge Hassouna Tawfiq ordered on Saturday Youtube’s suspension in the country over the film, which he described as “offensive to Islam and the Prophet (Muhammad)”.

Tawfiq made the ruling in the Egyptian capital where the first protests against the film erupted last September before spreading to more than 20 countries, leading to the deaths of more than 50 people.

YouTube’s parent company, Google, declined requests to remove the video from the website last year, but restricted access to it in certain countries, including Egypt, Libya and Indonesia, because it says the video broke laws in those countries.

At the height of the protests in September, YouTube was ordered blocked in several countries, including Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah issued an order blocking all websites with access to the anti-Islam film in the kingdom.