All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

BBC:
Egyptian officials say 25 militants suspected of having al-Qaeda links have been arrested for plotting attacks on ships in the Suez Canal.
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BBC News:
Egypt's claim to have broken up a Hezbollah cell plotting attacks on its territory is a "baseless" revenge bid, Hezbollah's deputy head has said.
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The Guardian:
Allegations of British collusion in torture have widened to Egypt, where a young British man says he suffered appalling mistreatment during a week of illegal detention while being interrogated on the basis of information that he says can only have come from the UK.
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BBC News:
Egyptian army cadets in plain clothes have been filmed pelting a police station with stones in a town south of the capital Cairo.
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International Herald Tribune:
State security came for Philip Rizk on Friday night. He had just finished a long protest walk with about 15 friends to raise support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip when he was detained for hours and then hustled into an unmarked van and driven off. He has not been seen or heard from since.
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AKI:
Attacking American and Israeli websites by hacking and sabotage is allowed under Islamic law and is a form of 'Jihad' or holy war, top Muslim scholars have decreed.
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The London Times:
A group of European tourists who were kidnapped by armed bandits in the remote deserts of southern Egypt have been freed after a raid that left half of their captors dead, Egyptian officials said yesterday.
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Aky News
Negotiations to free 11 European tourists, kidnapped during a safari in the Sahara desert, are still continuing according to an Egyptian government spokesman. (read the article)

AFP:
Masked bandits kidnapped a group of 19 foreign tourists and Egyptians at gunpoint as they were on a desert safari in a remote corner of southwestern Egypt, taking them towards Sudan, officials said Monday.
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AFP:

Human Rights Watch on Sunday condemned the treatment by Egyptian police of an activist who was stripped, beaten and threatened with rape after using Facebook to back calls for a general strike.
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