Crime
The National Council for Women (NCW) launched a door-to-door campaign in Red Sea city of Hurghada to raise awareness on the criminalization of female genital mutilation (FGM).
This comes in a quick response to a recent case of a 15 year old girl who arrived at a hospital after being subject to FGM; the father and the nurse were arrested and remain in custody pending investigations.
The project – worth LE500 million – covers 1,500 villages housing 50-55 million dwellers, who compose half of the Egyptian population.
A video went viral on social media on January 19, 2021, showing how the father was stripping the daughter and trying to spill fuel on her body to burn her, while the crying toddler was crawling in mud amid very cold temperature.
The court filed the case to the Egyptian Grand Mufti to ask his advisory religious opinion on executing the two men. It also set December 30, 2020, for a final ruling.
The third suspect faces accusations of helping carry out the crime with the two other people, according to the General Prosecution.
As per the initial investigations, the accused people confessed that they robbed the girl and ran away, without knowing that she was killed. They insisted that they did not mean to kill her.
Security sources told local media that the suspect microbus driver implicated in the crime has got arrested, and that the search for the other two is underway.
A committee presided by the chair of the Prisons Authority will review cases to determine eligible inmates.
As the security forces were getting close to their hideout, the criminals opened fire at them igniting the exchange.
In a fire exchange, two criminal elements convicted in illegal drug trade cases were killed.
The prime minister issues such decree every three months along with the renewal of the emergency law enforcement by the president.
The initial investigations revealed that the worker poisoned his wife and his young children before committing suicide.
Waly was also chosen to succeed Yury Fedotov of Russia as director-general of the UN Office at Vienna (UNOV).
That has resulted in the arrest of 55 defendants.
Those include four Libyans.
The forces also discovered and destroyed two tunnel openings in the same area.
The president awarded Egyptian and Palestinian honor students second-class Order of Excellence.
The crimes varied from bribery and administrative corruption to illegal currency trade, money laundering and tariff evasion.
Grammy Award-winning singer R. Kelly was arrested in Chicago on federal sex crime charges, NBC News said, citing unidentified law enforcement officials.
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