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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Egypt gets anti-Islamist justice minister
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEgypt swears in a new justice minister Wednesday whom critics accuse of “elitism” and who is known for his anti-Islamist views, nine days after his predecessor resigned over controversial comments.
“Ahmed al-Zind was sworn in in front of the president and in the presence of the prime minister,” a statement from President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi’s office says.
Zind takes over from Mahfouz Saber, whose resignation was announced on May 11 after he said that becoming a judge was too lofty an ambition for the sons of cleaners.
Zind has never concealed his animosity toward Islamists and the 2011 uprising that ousted ex-president Hosni Mubarak.
— AFP
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