Morsi supporters holed up in a Cairo mosque have exchanged heavy gunfire with police on Saturday afternoon.
Egyptian police shot and wounded a Sudanese man to prevent him from crossing the border illegally to Israel from the Sinai peninsula on Monday, a security official said. The official, who asked not to be named, said police opened fire on the 24-year-old after he refused to comply with orders to stop.
Egyptian police detained three leading members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday as part of a crackdown that the Islamists say is meant to disrupt their plans for local elections in April. Mahmoud Ghuzlan, a member of the Brotherhood’s guidance office, was taken from his Cairo home at 2am local time.
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/ 26 February 2008
An Egyptian military court has delayed by a month a verdict on 40 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood who face charges of belonging to a banned group, Brotherhood officials said on Tuesday. Brotherhood lawyer Abdel Moniem Abdel Maqsoud said the court set March 25 as the new date for a verdict for the men.
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/ 20 February 2008
Egyptian police detained dozens of members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, expanding a crackdown on the country’s strongest opposition group ahead of local elections in April. The Islamist group poses the most serious challenge to the ruling National Democratic Party in the April 8 elections for local councils.
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/ 28 January 2008
Dozens of policemen in riot gear at Egyptian checkpoints set up in the pouring rain just a few kilometres from the border with Gaza on Sunday failed to halt the flow of Palestinians into Egypt five days after the border was breached. Taiser Shuber had spent two days in Sheikh Zuwayed, a town about 19km into northern Sinai, where he savoured his first trip outside the Palestinian territories.
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/ 25 January 2008
Egypt began closing its breached border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, using barbed wire and water cannons to keep Palestinians from crossing into Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade. Israeli air strikes overnight killed four Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, where Hamas blasted open the border wall on Wednesday.
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/ 23 January 2008
Palestinian militants blew up part of the wall between Gaza and Egypt on Wednesday, and tens of thousands of Palestinians poured into Egypt to stock up on food and fuel in short supply due to an Israeli blockade. Egyptian riot police sent to reinforce the border mainly stood aside and let the Palestinians through.
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/ 22 January 2008
Dozens of Palestinians broke through the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Tuesday during clashes between Palestinian protesters and Egyptian security forces, a security source said. The group managed to get past Egyptian security forces who had retreated from their positions trying to contain the crowd.
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/ 28 November 2007
Egyptian police arrested 25 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood organisation late on Tuesday in the oasis city of Fayoum on charges of holding meetings to prepare for upcoming local elections. Long ignored and left to supporters of the ruling party, municipal elections have gained in importance following a 2005 change in the electoral law.
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/ 12 November 2007
Egyptian prosecutors have charged two detectives with sodomising a suspect in a drugs case in the Nile Delta. A report on the case quotes the suspect, 27-year-old Ahmed Sayed Hussein, as saying the detectives in Kalyoubia province tied him up with ropes, thrashed him with a belt and sodomised him with their hands.