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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 527

Egyptian uprising

Banners showing Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi hang in Tahrir Square, March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
June 1, 2018, 11:14 am
Wave of arrests in Egypt ahead of Sissi’s second term
Crackdown on bloggers, journalists, activists condemned by watchdogs and EU foreign policy chief
By Mona Salem
Egyptians protest in front of an army tank in central Cairo, Egypt, January 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ali)
March 24, 2018, 5:32 pm
Egypt: Seven years since the revolution
Ahead of next week’s elections, a look at key events since the 2011 uprising that ended the rule of Hosni Mubarak
By AFP
Egyptian women hold their national flag and a poster bearing portraits of President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi and Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi, as they celebrate the sixth anniversary of the 2011 uprising that overthrew former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Cairo's Tahrir Square on January 25, 2017. AFP/STRINGER)
January 25, 2017, 4:40 pm
Six years after uprising, Sissi insists Egypt ‘on right track’
President calls on country’s younger generation to work for continued ‘reform, construction and development’
By AFP
Mourners attend a candlelight vigil for slain Italian graduate student Giulio Regeni in front of the Italian embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
April 21, 2016, 7:27 pm
Report: Italian killed in Egypt was held by police before disappearance
Egyptian sources claim Giulio Regeni was picked up by plainclothes officers, then transferred to state security services
By ToI Staff
Egyptian policemen (R) stand next to a damaged car in front of a damaged national security building after a bomb blast in northern Cairo's district of Shubra on August 20, 2015. (AFP / KHALED DESOUKI)
August 24, 2015, 2:34 pm
Officials: 2 Egyptian policemen killed, 24 wounded in bus bomb
Attack occurs 240 kilometers north of Cairo as officers travel to work on a civilian bus; follows string of similar attacks by jihadist groups
By AFP
Egypt's prosecutor general, Hisham Barakat (YouTube screenshot/teleSUR English)
June 29, 2015, 1:21 pm
Egypt’s state prosecutor survives bombing in Cairo
Explosion comes as local Islamic State affiliate calls for attacks on state judiciary
By AFP and ToI Staff
Mohammed Soltan during a court appearance in Cairo, Egypt on March 9, 2015 (AP Photo/Heba Elkholy)
May 30, 2015, 4:30 pm
Cairo frees Egyptian-American sentenced to life in prison
Mohammed Soltan, arrested during Morsi overthrow and on hunger strike for 16 months, en route to family in the US
By Brian Rohan
In this May 8, 2014 file photo, Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. (AP/Tarek el-Gabbas, File)
April 19, 2015, 5:42 am
Egypt’s Morsi faces possible death penalty
Execution of country’s first freely elected leader would mark ‘escalation’ by military-backed Sissi government, says expert
By Tony Gamal-Gabriel
(Illustrative) Eight Egyptian men convicted for 'inciting debauchery' following their appearance in a video of an alleged same-sex wedding party on a Nile boat appear in the defendant's cage in a courtroom in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, November 1, 2014 (Photo credit: Hassan Ammar/AP)
January 12, 2015, 1:28 pm
Egypt acquits 26 men on trial for homosexuality
Court case follows widely publicized arrests; activists decry government crackdown on gay community
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Egyptian protesters are surrounded by army soldiers trying to lead them away from Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, February 13, 2011. (photo credit: AP/Tara Todras-Whitehill, File)
December 14, 2014, 9:34 pm
Egypt briefly holds three on ‘sabotage’ suspicions
Trio of Egyptians, including two with British citizenship, allegedly heard making plans to destabilize country
By AP
Illustrative photo of riot policemen standing guard in front of Egypt’s top court, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, December 3, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Nasser Nasser)
December 3, 2014, 6:44 am
Egyptian court sentences 188 people to death
Convicts charged with attack on police last year that left 11 dead; sentence needs approval of religious authorities
By AP
Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah upon his release from Tora prison in Cairo, September 15, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)
October 3, 2014, 5:09 pm
Egyptian activist loses bid for EU honor over call to kill Israelis
Alaa Abdel Fattah’s nomination for Sakharov Prize withdrawn after discovery of 2012 tweet calling for murder ‘of critical number of Israelis’
By JTA and Elhanan Miller
An Egyptian man throws a stone during clashes between rival groups of protesters in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 19, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Mostafa Darwish)
April 30, 2013, 8:26 pm
‘Hamas used metal darts to kill protesters during Egypt’s revolution’
Islamist movement also stole police cars and, with Hezbollah fighters, helped political prisoners break out of jail, Cairo’s ex-interior minister claims
By Elhanan Miller
Egyptian medics and army personnel carry former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, 84, from a helicopter ambulance after it lands in Maadi Military Hospital following his adjourned trial in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, April 13, 2013. Egypt's highest court in January ordered a retrial for Mubarak for failing to stop the killing of 900 protestors in the 2011 unrest that ousted him, after accepting an appeal against his life sentence, citing procedural failings. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
April 13, 2013, 11:27 am
Mubarak retrial adjourned as judge recuses himself
Upbeat and alert-looking ex-autocrat airlifted to courtroom from Cairo army hospital, but session ends minutes after it begins
By Aya Batrawy
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