... voted today. The national elections are the first in Iraq since us troops withdrew in 2011. Hundreds more Islamists have been sentenced to death in Egypt in the latest mass trial of Muslim Brotherhood supporters. A court in Cairo imposed the penalty today in a case stemming from violent riots ...
Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim announced Monday the discovery of around 50 mummies within a large tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. The remains, which included those of newborn babies, princes and princesses, are believed to date back to the 18th Pharaonic dynasty. Wooden coffins and death ...
... the Sidi Gaber district of Alexandria days after the Egyptian army ousted then-President Mohamed Morsi on July 3. Video footage has been broadcast throughout Egypt of two young individuals being thrown off of the roof during the incident. According to Egypt's state news agency MENA, a total of ...
... over 500, whether this was the initiative of a particular judge or whether it was a kind of an instruction from higher up in the Egyptian government. But I would say there have been a series of steps that have attempted to close down dissent in Egypt. You will recall ...
... Instead, they will meet in Brussels, minus the Russians. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner will have more, from Kiev later in the program. In Egypt, a court handed down death sentences for 529 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi after a two-day mass trial. All but 150 ...
An Egyptian court sentenced 529 supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi to death Monday for murdering a police officer, among other charges, in relation to an attack on a police station in August 2013. A total of 545 defendants were tried in the case, with only 147 reported to be ...
... these three defendants have completely collapsed. JEFFREY BROWN: The trial has sparked outrage among human rights groups, journalistic organizations and others. Protesters have demonstrated at Egyptian consulates in Mexico City, Istanbul, and elsewhere, demanding the journalists' release. And, in February, the Obama administration urged Egypt to drop the charges. White ...
It could be called the match that started the blaze of Egypt’s Arab Spring uprisings. The 2010 death of activist and blogger Khaled Said by two police officers for apparent retribution in the seaside city of Alexandria sent shockwaves through a nation fed up with state corruption and police ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: The resignation of the Cabinet from Egypt's interim government today was just the latest turn in the tumultuous three years since the downfall of Hosni Mubarak. Two Egyptian-American filmmakers charted much of that journey. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner sat down with them recently ...
... GWEN IFILL: Three Al-Jazeera television journalists arrested in Egypt last December went on trial today accused of terrorism. Proceedings at Cairo's Tora prison came amid a continued crackdown by Egypt's military government that has ensnared reporters, as well as the political opposition. Paul Mason of Independent ...
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