Justice was “trampled” on with the death sentence meted out on Monday to five Saudis for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Paris-based media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders said. The group’s secretary general, Christophe [ More … ]
Egypt has been revealed as the tenth highest importer of arms, ammunitions and security information systems from Italy for 2018, according to a document issued by the Italian Foreign Ministry. The purchase of Italian arms [ More … ]
Letter from parents of Italian student murdered in 2016 urges Egyptian president to extradite suspects The parents of Giulio Regeni, the Italian student murdered in Cairo three years ago, have written to the Egyptian president [ More … ]
Another six months cannot pass without accountability for this abhorrent crime, says The Washington Post Six months after the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. President Donald Trump has still done nothing to hold [ More … ]
There was much to celebrate last spring when Ariel Emanuel, the chief executive of the talent agency Endeavor, helped throw a splashy Hollywood party for Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. The soiree, with [ More … ]
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu warns that West-supported terror groups which target Turkey today, could target others tomorrow Turkey’s foreign minister on Monday stated that some western countries are trying to cover up the murder of Saudi journalist [ More … ]
A bipartisan group of senior senators said on Tuesday that a classified briefing by the C.I.A. director had only solidified their belief that Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, ordered the killing [ More … ]
Incitement on air .. Egyptian media incites to kill opposition figures in exile Pro-regime TV host and journalist Mohamed El-Baz has incited the killing of three Egyptian opposition figures abroad: Ayman Nour, leader of Ghad [ More … ]
An Israeli military court on Thursday granted the request of Israeli soldier Elor Azarya — who was convicted last month of manslaughter for the filmed, execution-style shooting of 21-year-old Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif –to postpone the [ More … ]
Turkish president tells Anadolu Agency Monday’s killing of Russian ambassador designed to hurt ties with Moscow The shooting dead of the Russian ambassador in Ankara is a provocation designed to destroy Turkish-Russian normalization, President Recep Tayyip [ More … ]
A security source in Giza General Directorate stated that the Egyptian security forces have increased their presence around Imbaba police station after the protest of dozens of the family of a young man whose body was [ More … ]
ANSA, the Italian news agency, has stated that the son of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Mahmoud, may have had a role as a secret service officer in the case of Giulio Regeni, the Italian student tortured [ More … ]
A magistrate court in Amman, Jordan has refused to extradite a Palestinian charged with murder to Israel, Agencies reported. Judge Muhammad al-Tarawani issued his decision to refuse the extradition of the Palestinian, Abu Samia, from Jordan [ More … ]
The Italian Foreign Minister stated today that the Italian ambassador to Egypt will stay in Rome for the time being as there is tension between the two countries following the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni in [ More … ]
Regeni began dying soon after his arrival in Cairo in September 2015, where the Egyptian National Security Sector and the General Intelligence Service opened a confidential file on him, file no. 333//2915/01, with charges of [ More … ]
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