Security and Crime

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  • Attempt to smuggle ancient coins at Rafah crossing foiled

    Date: 2020-02-06 22:14:51 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:85 - ID:8301283

    CAIRO, Feb 6 (MENA) – Customs officers at Rafah border crossing, in cooperation with security bodies, foiled an attempt to smuggle ancient coins. An official from the customs department said customs officers were suspicious of a Palestinian ....

  • El Shater's daughter, 5 others remanded in custody for 45 days

    Date: 2020-02-04 21:44:23 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:75 - ID:8298429

    CAIRO, Feb 4 (MENA) - Giza Criminal Court on Tuesday remanded Aisha el Shater, the daughter of the imprisoned leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Khairat el Shater, and five others in custody for 45 days pending investigations. Aisha and the five ....

  • Overspeed behind Orascom Development CEO death - security source

    Date: 2020-02-03 06:12:44 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:3 - ID:8295596

    CAIRO, Feb 3 (MENA) - A security source denied on Monday media reports about the reason behind the death of CEO of the Orascom Development Holding company Khaled Bichara. The source stressed that surveillance cameras in the ring road showed that ....

  • Security source denies MB rumors on hunger strike at Scorpion Prison

    Date: 2020-02-01 15:26:11 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:37 - ID:8293704

    CAIRO, Feb 1 (MENA) - A security source denied Saturday reports about a cut in food rations for inmates at Egypt's Scorpion Prison complex due to an economic difficulty. The reports, attributed to a human rights entity and broadcast by a ....

  • 135 prisoners released upon presidential pardon

    Date: 2020-01-31 17:20:22 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:38 - ID:8292757

    CAIRO, Jan 31 (MENA) - The Interior Ministry on Friday released 135 prisoners upon a presidential pardon issued earlier. All necessary measures have been taken by the Ministry's Prisons Sector to free those inmates. The step is part of the ....

  • Two dangerous elements killed in shootout with Assiut police

    Date: 2020-01-30 17:14:21 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:58 - ID:8291632

    CAIRO, Jan 30 (MENA) - The Interior Ministry on Thursday announced that two highly-dangerous elements were killed in a shootout with Assiut police forces. The two wanted elements were hiding in Dayrout township in the Upper Egyptian ....

  • Two very dangerous criminals killed in shoot-out with police in Suez

    Date: 2020-01-27 20:53:26 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:79 - ID:8287403

    CAIRO, Jan 27 (MENA) - Two very dangerous criminals were killed in a shoot-out with security forces on the Ain Sokhna road on Monday. Acting upon a tip-off, security forces targeted the criminals at their hideout along Qattamiya-Ain Sokhna ....

  • Security source: MB element arrested over spreading fake video

    Date: 2020-01-26 16:40:53 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:44 - ID:8285477

    CAIRO, Jan 26 (MENA) - A security source said Sunday an element of the Muslim Brotherhood group had been arrested over spreading an old video taken in 2012, as he claimed the video included protests happened on Saturday in Alexandria. All legal ....

  • Cabinet okays amendments to anti-terrorism law

    Date: 2020-01-22 20:16:24 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:64 - ID:8280848

    CAIRO, Jan 22 (MENA) - The cabinet approved Wednesday at a meeting under Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli a draft law amending some provisions of the anti-terrorism law. As per the newly introduced amendments, the words "funds" and "assets" ....

  • Hasm members confess to schemes for Jan. 25

    Date: 2020-01-22 13:23:55 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:31 - ID:8280166

    CAIRO, Jan 22 (MENA) - Muslim Brotherhood leaders who had fled to Turkey have assigned the Hasm Movement, one of the arms of the terrorist group, to enrage the Egyptian public opinion through instigation calls and carrying out a series of terrorist ....

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