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palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

“Armies are the basis of the administration and the administration is everything,” Maj. Gen. Mahmoud Nasr said at a conference four years ago on the role of the Egyptian Armed Forces (EAF) in supporting the economy through the institution’s many projects. At the same conference, held in Cairo and organized by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, he stressed that the so-called "army economy" is not derived from state funds, but rather from returns on Ministry of Defense projects.

The Defense Ministry’s projects and finances have long lacked transparency, and many critics have questioned whether its funds constitute a black-market budget. Some estimate the size of the army’s economy at 35-45% of the Egyptian economy. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi denied both assertions during his election campaign. In a May 2014 interview with Reuters, Sisi said the correct number was no more than 2%.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/03/egypt-military-economic-empire-sisi-parliament-limit.html#

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Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon admitted in his speech at the annual AIPAC conference, the largest Zionist lobby supporting Israel in the US, that the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi and the installation of Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi was planned, in cooperation with generals in the Egyptian and Gulf armies and intelligence agencies. He also said that Israel’s interests will always be served by having military regimes in the Arab world, especially in Egypt.

He apologised that the military regimes usually disregard democracy in Egypt but called on the lobby to provide more support for Al-Sisi. Ya’alon also explicitly said: “We decided to allow General Al-Sisi, who was the defence minister at the time, to take over power by mobilising the army in order to become a president. The West should consider this of strategic interest for them as well.”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/24563-no-to-normalisation

„Nicht nur Giulio Regeni: es muss in allen Fällen von erzwungenen Verschwinden, Folterungen und Todesfällen in Haft ermittelt werden“
Offener Brief an den ägyptischen Präsidenten Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=17237

Egypt vows to shed light on 'tortured' Italian student death

Egypt's president on Wednesday vowed to do everything he could to shed light on the death of a young Italian student whose badly mutilated body was found in Cairo.

Cambridge University PhD student Giulio Regeni, 28, was found dumped in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo in February, in a case that has strained ties between Italy and Egypt.

Egyptian authorities are working "day and night" to solve the crime, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in an interview with Italy's La Repubblica newspaper.

"I promise you that we will do everything to shed light (on the case) and we will get to the truth," he said.

Addressing Regeni's family, he added: "We will work with the Italian authorities to bring to justice and punish the criminals that killed your son."
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-vows-shed-light-tortured-italian-student-death-1709261325

Aber sicher es wird keine drück von dem italianische staat um eine Seriöse Untersuchung in diese Fall gegeben , weil die Eni https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eni_%28Unternehmen%29 hat eine Große Investition von Gasförderung vor den Küsten dem Ägypten , "il più grande giacimento [...] del Mediterraneo"...
Das ableckerbeinen des Oberst http://www.infoaut.org/index.php/blog/editoriali/item/16728-i-leccapiedi-del-colonnello

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

An authoritarian regime may be unpopular, even loathed, but at least it has rules. The rules may bear little resemblance to the law, but relations between state officials and society come to have a predictable rhythm. People understand where the red lines are, and they can choose to stay within them or to step across. Egypt does not work this way under the field marshal who became president, ‘Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi.

Nearly three years since the military coup that brought Sisi to power, not only are the red lines blurred, but the unconsolidated regime itself is so fuzzily defined that Egyptians doubt it is one coherent entity. The security forces seem to have slipped the leash of the executive branch. As one journalist told me in Cairo, “You never know which security branch it is any more. The only thing that’s clear is that Sisi does not control them. It’s unpredictable and unsettled. That’s what makes everything dangerous. You can’t see it coming.”
http://merip.org/mero/mero030816

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It was 3 a.m. on May 24 when an armed force burst into the Khalil family home. Noor Khalil opened his eyes to eight masked men. He was pulled out of bed, bound and blindfolded. Then he dropped off the face of the earth for four days.
In an Egyptian Homeland Security building, where physical constraints were accompanied by a gun to his head, Khalil said he learned that his brother had met with the same fate, except the latter would not resurface for 122 days.

A United Nations international convention defines enforced disappearance as the arrest, detention, abduction or other deprivation of liberty by a state or state-authorized agents, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the act.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/03/egypt-forced-disappearances-arrests-security-sisi.html#

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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 Mubarak’s 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

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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

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Leader of tribal coalition in the restive region calls on Egypt's president to reopen schools and focus on development rather than 'security solution'

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sinai-tribal-leader-demands-government-dialogue-militants-2098338591

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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 don’t 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 don’t 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?”

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/sisi-must-go-it-too-late-1711093598

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

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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 Egypt’s government. Ashmawy’s 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.”

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Oct-17/319174-one-of-us-the-militant-egypt-army-fears-most.ashx

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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