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This page and it's admins are based in , It's concerned about the current developments of the political situation in , being strictly -coup yet keeping a professional tone while displaying the news. To clarify further for first time readers about the Egyptian situation it is as follows:

A year ago and after about two years after the of January revolution, President Mohamm

ad , had been elected in a clean, transparent elections, that was witnessed and acknowledged by the entire world. After a year in office, there was an outbreak of rallies against the President Mohammad Morsi calling for his ousting, even declaring itself as the second revolution of the of June, the sole purpose of these great numbers taking to the streets was the removal of the democratically elected president Mohammad . Following these protests with one day, the interfered with a statement, it's bottom line was giving all the political movements in the country to settle the issue within the next 48 hours. After that President Mohammad Morsi gave his last speech before the , making it one of the shortest revolutions in history, lasting for only a few hours. This is a brief but straight to the point summary of the last few days before the . After the statement made by General , declaring a , several Islamic channels have been blacked out, making this the first action of the coup. Following this, several arrests of well-known Islamist figures, such as Khairat Elshater, the deputy head of the , and Sheikh Hazem Salah Abo Ismaeil, one of the prominent religious and political figures in after the 25th of January revolution. Arrest warrants were also issued for around 300 other Islamist or moderate Islamist figures, thus jeopardizing the freedom of speech and the freedom of media all at one go. The event that caused further distress between the supporters of legitimacy and the Supreme Council of Armed Forces was the massacre that was carried out on the morning of the 9th of July against those who were peacefully protesting in the area. The attack occurred while protesters were preforming the Fajr (dusk) prayers and left them with 105 dead Egyptian men, women and children, and around a 1000 injured, and even going further to calling them terrorists and accusing them with the intention of trespassing onto military grounds and other acts of violence, taking into notice the killings started during prayer time while they were merely praying. The event left many families missing one or two of their family members on the first day of which is a spiritual and festive month in where families like to break their fast to-gather. After those events fliers were thrown from helicopters that usually survey the area twice asking to remain peaceful and not to resort to any acts of violence, and whoever wanted to leave was free to do so and they "won't go after him" and whoever wants to stay can stay, which some saw as adding insult to injury. The second time it said to not cause any blockage to roads and keep it peaceful and that the army was always there to answer the call of the people!! After presenting this brief summary of the latest events in , I leave the situation for you, our valued reader, to judge and further investigate. Thank you for reading our posts and we hope to get you the truth and only that.

30/01/2017

Update 31.01.2017: WE DID IT!! We smashed the 100,000 signature mark!!

Heartbroken💔 watching a petition to keep out of the United Kingdom rise every second by not just tens but hundreds of signatures, this petition (whether important or not) has reached well over 700,000 signatures!

Yet our petition to protect our children, a petition created in memory of a 5 year old CHILD ( ) who was ABDUCTED/MURDERED and her little body NEVER found has just 37,249 signatures! Our petition for has just 1 and a 1\2 months before our signatures become invalid and our petition closes!!

Petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/166711

I am frustrated, angry and confused at how we are not standing behind this petition, how this petition is not being signed!

I ask again PLEASE SHARE OUR PETITION, PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION and stand with us as we .

Tell me how can you scroll past a petition regarding our children, our future. Yet, people are sharing this Donald Trump petition like mad?

Do our children not matter?
Do you not believe it could happen to you? You know April's family once believed it would never happen to them either, now they live everyday without their little April.

12/03/2016

“I was asleep when they came,” says Nour Khalil, a 22-year-old lawyer and activist. “I woke up to one of them pulling away my bed sheet and pointing a gun in my face. I was handcuffed and blindfolded immediately. I was put into solitary confinement for four days.”

09/03/2016

The Egyptian parliament is drafting a law banning women from wearing the niqab veil. The ban will apply to wearing the clothing in public places and government institutions, it has been reported. The full-face veil is worn by some followers of Islam and typically covers all of the wearer’…

  |   in    The question she asked is a literal translation of a typical question asked by journalists in Egypt to celeb...
02/03/2016

| in

The question she asked is a literal translation of a typical question asked by journalists in Egypt to celebrities. The standard reply is something like "I would like to thank you for asking this insightful question. After years of hard work and with the support of our great state and wise leadership I was finally able to accomplish this fantastic achievement, which I dedicate to our mother, Egypt. This is an effort supported first by God and second by our great leader so and so...etc.

  |  Going Once, Going Twice: Egypt’s Sisi Was For Sale on eBayOn Wednesday morning, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-...
24/02/2016

| Going Once, Going Twice: Egypt’s Sisi Was For Sale on eBay
On Wednesday morning, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he is so committed to solving Egypt’s debt crisis that he would go so far as to sell himself if he thought it would help.Quick tip for Sisi: Don’t make promises you can’t keep. Within hours, the Egyptian leader was up for sale on eBay. Within a few hours, the bidding was at more than $100,000 — not too bad for an embattled head of state. The seller, whose username on the online auction site is “dr_motown,” listed Sisi as a “slightly used” field marshal and doctor of philosophers with a military background. That was a stab at Sisi’s claim last year that God anointed him as a doctor who advises “world leaders, politicians…and the greatest philosophers.” When one interested buyer asked for more information about the product, dr_motown — who has been an eBay member since 2004 and was rated positively by other users for quick delivery times — said Sisi had been used by “his previous owners (Gulf royals).” eBay didn’t find the posting too funny — it was removed early Wednesday afternoon.But Foreign Policy screenshot the post before the company took it down:

  || Egypt plane crash: 'Fake' bomb detectors being used by hotel security guards searching for explosivesAs British and...
10/11/2015

|| Egypt plane crash: 'Fake' bomb detectors being used by hotel security guards searching for explosives

As British and Egyptian authorities continue to assure tourists trapped in Sharm el-Sheikh that all possible measures are being taken to ensure their safety, bomb detectors being used by some hotel staff have been exposed as fake.
Security guards at hotels in the Red Sea resort have been seen using gadgets believed to be based on those sold around the world by jailed British conmen and women.
The sightings came as thousands of tourists continue to be stranded amid increased security measures following the Russian plane crash that killed all 224 people on board on 31 October.

Wilayat Sinai, Isis’ affiliate in the region, immediately claimed it had downed Metrojet flight 9628 and Britain is among the countries believing a bomb hidden in the hold was the most likely cause of the disaster.

  |  Bomb theory spells disaster for Egyptian tourism. Egypt's tourism industry is reeling from suggestions that a bomb ...
07/11/2015

| Bomb theory spells disaster for Egyptian tourism.

Egypt's tourism industry is reeling from suggestions that a bomb may have brought down a Russian plane shortly after it took off from the popular holiday resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday the crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 was "more likely than not" caused by a bomb. U.S. officials have suggested that terror group ISIS or its affiliates were to blame.The U.K. government has barred airlines from taking passengers to Sharm el-Sheikh because of concerns about security at the resort's airport, and is working to help bring at least 9,000 travelers home. France has also stopped flights to the airport while the Netherlands and Germany have issued warnings about travel to the area.
This week's developments could prove to be "catastrophic" for Egyptian tourism, said Nadejda Popova, a senior travel analyst at Euromonitor International.
Britain is the second biggest market for Egyptian tourism, behind Russia. Roughly 2.8 million Russians, one million Brits and nearly 600,000 Germans visited Egypt last year, according to Euromonitor data.
U.S. carriers do not fly to Sharm el-Sheikh after a March notice from the Federal Aviation Administration warned about "hazards associated with extremist activities."
Egypt has been trying to rebuild its tourism industry since political turmoil sparked by the Arab Spring protests in early 2011 scared millions of tourists away.
Annual visitor numbers slumped from a record 14.7 million in 2010 to around 10 million since then, according to the UN's World Tourism Organization.
But the industry has proven resilient in the past to acts of terrorism and bloodshed. Tourists stopped to visit the country since President Mohamed Morsywas overthrown in July 2013.

    Hundreds of people are expected to join protests outside Downing Street against the visit of the Egyptian president,...
04/11/2015



Hundreds of people are expected to join protests outside Downing Street against the visit of the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, who is accused of a catalogue of human rights abuses.

A broad coalition of Egyptian and British groups has called for demonstrations on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, when the former army chief will hold talks at No 10. Sisi set off for his visit on early on Wednesday morning, Egyptian state media said.

  Egyptian president's  first UK visit met with a protest.  Hundreds of protesters are expected to flood the streets of ...
04/11/2015


Egyptian president's first UK visit met with a protest.

Hundreds of protesters are expected to flood the streets of central London on Wednesday as Egyptian president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi arrives at Downing Street to meet with Prime Minister David Cameron.

The meeting will go ahead despite mounting criticism of Egyptian human rights abuses and mass death sentences.

Since Sisi’s visit was first announced in June, a day after an Egyptian court handed the deposed president, Mohammed Morsi, a death sentence, critics have questioned why Cameron would invite a “blood-soaked dictator” to the UK.

  || Why did Esraa El-Taweel weep? Her father answers. “Why did Esraa today weep and make us weep?” It was with this que...
03/11/2015

|| Why did Esraa El-Taweel weep? Her father answers.

“Why did Esraa today weep and make us weep?” It was with this question that the father of detained Egyptian activist Esraa El-Taweel started his long blog which was shared and exchanged by many activists. On Monday, the hashtag (Esraa El-Taweel) topped all hashtags shared in Egypt today with significant human rights and media interaction.

On Facebook Esraa's father, Mahfouz El-Taweel, said that his daughter wept today because of oppression and tyranny after her imprisonment was extended by 45 more days for the tenth time after she’d already spent 155 days in detention.

He said: “Let everyone know that Esraa El-Taweel did not weep today or ever before out of fear of prison. Esraa El-Taweel wept today because the gentleman, the prosecuting officer – whose name I shall not disclose - told her in the first court appearance following her forced disappearance, and I quote: ‘There is no charge and you shall be released during the next court session.’ Yet, the prosecutor disappeared and did not reappear until the session before last at the supreme state security prosecution. When Esraa saw him she wept heavily to the extent that the gentleman, the prosecutor, wept because she was weeping. He promised her that she would be free the following session, the tenth and last court appearance according to him. Yet, he failed to come to the prosecution department and she was imprisoned once more in order to appear before a judge in a court of law instead of before a prosecution judge.”

El-Taweel added: “All the lawyers said she would be ordered free as soon as she arrived at the court. Yet, suddenly and without prior warning, and without even informing the lawyers, the cowards decided that she should be paraded in court today before one of the executions judges, Mu'tazz Khafaji. For this reason Esraa wept, thinking that her parents, friends and all the free people of Egypt would not be watching or that they would not be able to join her and be with her.”

He concluded his blog by saying: “Esraa, who is sick, was given 45 more days of detention. Esraa wept out of oppression and tyranny. Esraa wept because of the weakness and incapacity that may afflict her legs should she miss her physiotherapy. Your tears are dear, Esraa.”

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  | Detention renewed for Esraa El-Taweel. The detention of amateur photojournalist Esraa El-Taweel, accused of spreadin...
02/11/2015

| Detention renewed for Esraa El-Taweel.

The detention of amateur photojournalist Esraa El-Taweel, accused of spreading false news and belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, was renewed on Monday, after spending 57 days in police custody, according to Al-Marsad student observatory.

She was originally arrested at the beginning of June, with her family, lawyers, as well as human rights activists arguing she was “kidnapped” by police and sent for interrogation in the Homeland Security Apparatus headquarters in Cairo.

told Daily News Egypt that upon her arrest, she spent the first 15 days not knowing where she is, without any legal grounds for her detention.

On 1 June, El-Taweel and two friends, Omar Ali and Sohaib Saad Al-Haddad, were taken while they were having dinner in Maadi. It has been reported that Ali is at Al-Aqrab Prison and Al-Haddad is at Tora Prison.

El-Taweel’s sister and lawyers asserted that Esraa suffers from an injury in her leg and requires physiotherapy.

During the second anniversary of the 25 January Revolution in 2013, El-Taweel was struck by a bullet hitting her leg and spine while taking photos during a protest. She was bedridden for five months and used a wheelchair for six months. She recently began to use a crutch, according to family members.

A Ministry of Interior spokesperson previously denied that the police forcibly takes individuals in this manner, also telling Daily News Egypt that Egypt’s police forces are currently not targeting young people, regardless of their political stances and positions.

  || For the first time since 1948, Egypt votes for Israel at UN.Egypt’s representative at United Nations voted on Frida...
01/11/2015

|| For the first time since 1948, Egypt votes for Israel at UN.

Egypt’s representative at United Nations voted on Friday in support of Israel’s bid for membership of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Israeli media reported.

Since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 and its acceptance to membership of the UN, Egypt had never voted in its favour at the UN before last Friday.
One hundred and seventeen countries voted in favour of Israel, 21 abstained, while only Namibia voted against the decision. Countries that abstained include: Qatar, Tunisia, Syria, Mauritania, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, Iraq and Algeria.
Israeli sources said that they were accepted to this UN committee after "intensive diplomatic efforts" exerted at different levels.
Prior to the vote, spokesman for the Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid refused to comment on the matter. However, in the face of fierce domestic criticism, he said that voting for Israel was necessary in order to secure the membership of a number of Arab countries to the committee.
Egyptian politicians and activists widely rejected this move and severely criticised Egyptian Military President Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi.
In 1973, Egypt and Syria started a war against Israel that paved the way for peace talks between Egypt and Israel. It ended up with a peace treaty in 1979 that ended state of war between the two sides, reciprocal recognition and normalisation of ties.

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