Gewalteskalation in Ägypten: Radikalisierung der Muslimbrüder erwünscht
Zwischenruferin beim Sisi-Besuch:"Sonst hätte mich ja niemand gehört"
Mit ihrer Aktion erregte sie weltweit Aufsehen: Fagr Eladly, 22, beschimpfte Ägyptens Präsident Sisi in Berlin als Mörder. Nun will Kairo ihr die Staatsbürgerschaft entziehen. Im Interview mit SPIEGEL ONLINE erzählt sie, wie es zu dem Vorfall kam.
Proteste begleiten den aktuellen Besuch des ägyptischen Staatspräsidenten Abd al Fattah al Sisi in Berlin. Ursache ist zum einen, dass Al Sisi ungeachtet brutaler Maßnahmen der ägyptischen Behörden gegen die Opposition und trotz des wiederholten Aufschubs der Parlamentswahl heute von Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck und Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel empfangen wird. Darüber hinaus richten sich die Proteste gegen die direkte Kooperation deutscher Stellen mit den ägyptischen Repressionsapparaten: Ein Polizeiabkommen zwischen beiden Ländern ist in Vorbereitung, gemeinsame Schulungen werden abgehalten.
Dialectics between revolution and counterrevolution
Husam al-Sanei, Tayseer Abu Sneima and Ahmed Al Jaabari were three Palestinians from Gaza killed or assassinated by Israel between 2008 and 2012. The first was killed during Israels war on Gaza in late 2008, while the second was assassinated in 2009 after being accused of taking part in the abduction of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who was held by Hamas for over five years until Israel agreed to release more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in October 2011. The third was a senior commander in the military wing of Hamas and his assassination in 2012 ignited the war between the two archenemies in November of that year. Another Palestinian by the name of Hasan Salamah was sentenced in 1996 by Israel to 48 life sentences and has been imprisoned ever since, mostly in solitary confinement.
What these four Palestinians share in common is that they were sentenced to death this week by an Egyptian court on the charge that they helped free hundreds of people, including ousted President Mohammad Morsi, in a prison break outside Cairo on 29 January, 2011, in the midst of Egypts popular uprising.
Hamas members held hostage by Sinai militant group
Four Palestinians kidnapped at gunpoint in Egypt's Sinai late Wednesday are members of Hamas, Egyptian security officials said, and are being held hostage by the Sinai Province militant group.
Egyptian officials told Ma'an that the four Hamas members were taken hostage by the IS-affiliated group as a bargaining chip to force Hamas to release some 50 Salafists currently imprisoned in Gaza.
The members were identified as Abd al-Basit Abd al-Dayim, Abdullah Said Abdullah Abu Jibbeen, Yasir Fathi Misbah Zanoun and Hussein Khamis al-Thabda.
Negotiations have reportedly begun between Hamas and the militant group, with the involvement of both Palestinian and Egyptian mediators.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767157
Hamas holds Egypt 'responsible' for lives of kidnapped members
Hamas said Monday that it holds Egypt "responsible" for the lives of four of its members who were kidnapped last week by the Sinai Province militant group in the northern Sinai.
In a statement, the movement urged the Egyptian authorities to do more to secure their release, and called on human rights and political organizations to play a bigger role condemning the "savage" kidnapping.
Hamas also warned the IS-affiliated militants against harming the kidnapped members.
"The criminals who dare to take action against out people falsely think that the Palestinian people might forget or ignore this case," the statement added.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767223
One of us: The militant Egypt army fears most
As a special forces officer in the Egyptian Army, Hisham al-Ashmawy trained in the desert, learning camouflage and survival techniques and how to hunt the enemy in rough terrain. Now he has turned militant, and uses that training to another purpose: helping fellow extremists fight Egypts government. Ashmawys background makes him a potent figure among Islamist fighters, who President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi says pose an existential threat to Egypt. Ashmawy is the most dangerous terrorist we face, an Egyptian National Security official told Reuters. He is the mastermind and executor.
With each planeload evacuating Russian and British tourists, Sharm el-Sheikh can feel its life blood ebbing.
Arthur, on a fixed salary of $255 ($63 more than Egypt's minimum wage) says: I dont know what happened on that plane. I have a feeling we are being manipulated and I prefer not to think about it. I think the West is trying to force Egypt to do the things it wants and this accident is a perfect opportunity for it to force us to, force us in a financial way.
Ahmed, a diving instructor turned taxi driver, agrees: They want to kill us. I dont see any other explanation. Here, there are only Russian and English tourists left, and those are the ones who are going home.
The Western plot to kill Sharm el-Sheikh is richly orchestrated by the linguistic creativity of the pro-government media. When a stranded British tourist harangued the British Ambassador John Casson, she was reported by pro-government Al Ahram as saying: We want to continue our holiday and we do not want to leave now.
What she actually said (documented in a YouTube clip) was: What is the problem? What is the real problem? Why are we here? ...There was a security problem this morning and you are now here to resolve it. Why are we here then, while the rest of the people have gone home?
Egyptian army kills 15 Sudanese migrants near Israeli border
Egyptian forces on Sunday shot and killed 15 Sudanese migrants who were attempting to illegally cross the border into Israel, Egyptian security sources said.
The sources, who wished to remain anonymous, said that the 15 people were among 23 migrants attempting to illegally cross the border from Egypt's Rafah city in the northern Sinai into Israel when Egyptian soldiers opened fire.
The other eight were shot and wounded, before being evacuated to Rafah hospital, the sources said.
They told Ma'an that Egyptian border forces called on the 23 migrants to halt, saying that they had been caught, and when the group failed to do so, the soldiers opened fire on them.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768839
Sinai tribal leader demands government dialogue with militants
Leader of tribal coalition in the restive region calls on Egypt's president to reopen schools and focus on development rather than 'security solution'
Egypt criticised for 'codifying prostitution' with short-term marriage law
Foreign men who temporarily "marry" much younger Egyptian women and girls will have to pay their families a fee of $6,380 under a government decree - a move that rights groups say legitimises trafficking and exploitation of girls from poor families.
The Egyptian Minister of Justice Ahmed al-Zand decreed that a foreign man must pay 50,000 Egyptian pounds ($6,380) if he is 25 years or older than the Egyptian woman he wishes to marry. http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-criticised-codifying-prostitution-short-term-marriage-law-1304935349
Mit dem Messer geboren: Kaiserschnitte in Ägypten als die einzige Gebärmöglichkeit verkauft
Die Anzahl der Geburten per Kaiserschnitt ist in den Privatkrankenhäusern auf 52 Prozent angestiegen, obwohl der Kaiserschnitt vier Mal gefährlicher ist als eine natürliche Geburt . http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=16390
Verbotene Abtreibung: warum ägyptische Kinder auf der Straße ausgesetzt werden
Obwohl die Abtreibung in Ägypten illegal ist, suchen viele Frauen mit größter Geheimhaltung darin Zuflucht. Für andere, ist die letzte Lösung, ihre Schwangerschaft geheim zu halten und ihr Kind nach der Geburt loszuwerden http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=16326
Oppression in Egypt 'worse than before', but few have appetite to fight
Five years ago, some two million Egyptians took to the streets of the capital to demand an end to the government of Hosni Mubarak, but no such spectacle is expected this time around.
Instead of celebrating the fifth anniversary of the 25 January uprising, many young Egyptians say they will stay home and lament the death of their revolution, which they say has been marred by human rights abuses and growing state repression.
We are not protesting now because there is no use in doing so more people will die and get put in jail, said Amal Sharaf, a spokeswoman for the April 6 movement that was a key force behind the 2011 protests that brought down the long-time strongman.
While no one expected the transition to democracy to be smooth, many activists say things are more dangerous now than they were under Mubarak.
During the revolution, activists and protesters took risks. For weeks they endured intimidation and violence from the authorities. According to Health Ministry officials, more than 840 were killed and almost 6,500 injured, but day after day they turned out to protest.
Many 25 January veterans say they have lost their revolutionary zeal and been worn down by years of crackdowns and increased police brutality.
During Mubaraks era, the worst that could happen is [you would get arrested and] tortured for a few days while [they carried out their investigation] over national security, Sharaf said. Now [the government] kidnaps, hands out crazy sentences and fabricates charges. http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/death-egypt-s-revolution-crackdowns-arrests-1121351817