[AlAhram] A Cairo court sentenced on Sunday 10 defendants to death on charges of "forming gangs to carry out hostile attacks in Cairo and Giza against police personnel and vandalise public properties and facilities, including power towers."
The court is seeking the opinion of Egypt’s Grand Mufti on the preliminary verdicts.
The Public Prosecution’s investigation said the defendants between the period of 14 August 2013 and 2 February 2015 led a group that was founded in violation of the law; with the purpose of disrupting the constitution and the state’s laws, hindering the functioning of the state’s institutions, assaulting the personal freedom of citizens, and harming national unity and social peace.
The defendants include Yehia Mousa, the former health ministry spokesperson, who is accused alongside others by Egyptian authorities of orchestrating the liquidation of former Egyptian prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat in 2015.
Mousa left for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... on the heels of the ouster of late Moslem Brüderbund president Mohammed Morsi in 2013, with media reports stating recently that Ottoman Turkish authorities have prevented him from departing its lands, as Ankara seeks to restore ties with Cairo after years of deterioration.
The religious opinion of the mufti is non-binding but is a necessary procedure before issuing a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... in Egypt, according to the country’s code of criminal procedure.
The court is set to issue its final verdict against the defendants on 19 June.
Of the 10 men, nine were in jug while one was sentenced in absentia, the source said.
They were accused of multiple incidents of violence against police in 2015 — a period that saw a spike in attacks targeting security forces.
Egypt outlawed the Islamist Moslem Brüderbund group in 2013 and designated it a terrorist organization, following the military ouster of former president Mohammed Morsi.
General-turned-president Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who led Morsi’s ouster, has since led a crackdown on the group, jailing thousands including its top leader as well as its rank and file.
Morsi died in jug in June 2019, after falling ill during a court hearing.
Cairo has handed down death sentences or long jail terms after mass trials that have drawn condemnation from the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Capital punishment for civilian convicts in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, is carried out by hanging.
Egypt carried out the third-highest number of known executions in the world last year, after China and Iran, according to Amnesia Amnesty International.
[DW] For months, Poland's side of the border with Belarus was off-limits to aid workers and media as displaced people attempted to cross to the EU. Now, journalists are allowed in again, under strict controls. DW went along. Scene-setting description snipped, leaving the information that interests us, dear Reader: NEW EU FENCE
The spokeswoman decided where we stopped and what we saw. At our first stop, soldiers stood in a field in front of a razor wire fence. In the past, she said, there was no need for such barriers at the border because there was good cooperation with the Belarusian border guards. In a private conversation, she even told us that the guards of the opposite sides of the border even took joint canoe trips together.
But now, she said, the Belarusian guards work with migrants colonists to cut the razor wire together and blind Polish soldiers with mirrors to enable illegal border crossings. The barbed wire is soon be replaced by a high fence, she said.
This high fence, popularly known as "the wall," has been officially under construction since January 24. It will consist of 5-meter (16.5-foot) posts topped with barbed wire and equipped with motion detectors and infrared cameras.
About 180 kilometers of the border will need to be paved, at a price of roughly €355 million euros ($396 million). Environmentalists and local residents have long protested the installation, as the fence will cut through the virgin forest at the border — disrupting the habitat of several wild animals.
WARNINGS TO MIGRANTS COLONISTS
We stopped in front of a car parked in the middle of a field. From the loudspeaker on the roof, messages blared out in English, French, Arabic and a Kurdish dialect, telling the migrants colonists on the Belarusian side of the border that they had been cheated, that crossing the border into Poland is a punishable offense and that they should return to Minsk , the capital of Belarus.
We reached Usnarz Gorny. It was near this village that refugees from Afghanistan were stuck in limbo for two months on the Belarusian side of the border in the summer of 2021 — blocked on both sides by the national guards.
The refugees received help from activists and lawyers, they even applied for asylum, but they were not allowed on Polish territory.
VIOLENT BORDER ENFORCEMENT
We saw remains of the makeshift camp that housed the refugees: tents, blankets and bags. The area has not been cleaned up. "We are not allowed to do that," the Polish police spokeswoman said. "All the things are on the Belarusian side." That was also the argument used in the summer of 2021 to explain why Poland could not help people sleeping rough in the forest.
Now the place is deserted. "One day they were suddenly gone, probably taken away by Belarusian authorities," the spokeswoman said. In October, the Polish border agency reported that a group of Afghans had broken through the fence into Poland and were detained.
According to activists, pepper spray was used against the migrants colonists. Then they were reportedly driven back to Belarus. We asked the spokeswoman what she knows about it.
"Anyone who needs help will get it," she said, "and anyone who wants to apply for asylum can do so."
THE EU MIGRANT CRISIS ALONG THE BELARUS-POLAND BORDER
Agata Ferenc, of the Ocalenie Foundation, which supports refugees, was in Usnarz Gorny before the area was closed. Since then, she and some fellow volunteers have been trying to help from outside the restricted zone.
Aid workers still receive about a dozen calls a day from people in need of help who are stuck somewhere along the border. "The first thing they usually ask us is not to inform the border guards," Ferenc said. "They know the border guards will send them back to Belarus if they are found."
#1
If the CIA was actually worth a damn, they'd be destabilizing Belarus, which would preempt anything happening in Ukraine.
Instead, Biden props them up by refusing to throw hard sanctions, while stringing along The Ukraine. It's almost as if he WANTS a war or at least a large potential re-run of the cold war. Fat contractors, and free boodle to the Euros at the cost of American prosperity and potentially American lives, while pissants like the Germans refuse to lift a finger.
I say screw them. Tell Putin he can have Germany. They are ready to surrender already. That'll keep him busy for a very long time, eating a turd sandwich that large.
#2
"If only you Poles handled borders
As we do, and followed your orders
Concerning cute creatures
And natural features...
Our troops could return to their quarters!"
Iraqi counter-terrorism forces on Sunday announced that they had launched a major campaign to inspect prisons on the orders of the Iraqi premier Mustafa al-Kadhimi. These measures to secure Iraqi prisons from potential security gaps follow a major prison siege by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) group in Hasaka, northeast Syria (Rojava).
"After the recent security developments in the Syrian city of Hasaka, in which ISIS elements tried to escape from the 'Sina'a prison' ... units of the counter-terrorism service launched a major campaign to inspect Iraqi prisons in several provinces, which began on the 22nd of January and continued until the 30th," the counter-terrorism forces announced on Sunday, as reported by state media.
ISIS detainees led an audacious attack on the al-Sina'a prison in Hasaka's Ghweran neighborhood on Friday, January 21st. The facility housed around 5,000 ISIS members at the time of the incursion, and the major escape attempt raised significant concern about the terror group's capabilities, despite their complete lack of territorial control.
An additional 5,000 other murderous Moslems are held by the SDF in other jails.
"The intelligence of the [Iraqi] Counter-Terrorism Service participated in this campaign, which obtained important and precise information related to terrorist cells who are trying to create a foothold in our country," continued the statement.
Long. Posted for those who need to know who is making the political sausage.
[Rudaw] Iraq’s government formation is once again moving forward now that the Federal Court deemed the first session of the new parliament constitutional, paving the way to elect Iraq’s next president and then designating the candidate of the largest bloc as prime minister.
In a statement issued January 25, the Speaker of Parliament Mohammed al-Halbousi announced that February 7 is the date set to elect the president. As a result, Sadrist leader, Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... , arrived unannounced in Baghdad on January 26. However,
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