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Egypt detains opposition activist

Egypt's security forces on Friday detained the founder of one of the key youth movements behind the 2011 uprising that toppled the former regime upon his arrival at Cairo Airport from Vienna, a security official told AFP. Ahmed Maher of the April 6 movement was arrested at the airport "based on the orders of the general security department at the interior ministry," the official said. His passport was confiscated and he was transferred to the prosecution for questioning, the official MENA news agency said.

Egypt's Mubarak back in court for retrial

By Alexander Dziadosz and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was back in court on Saturday for a retrial on charges of complicity in the murder of protesters, reopening a case that has shown the difficulty of transitional justice in post-revolutionary Egypt.

General signals Egypt army staying out of politics

CAIRO (Reuters) - The army is not the answer to Egypt's political problems, the army chief said on Saturday, urging Egyptians to find a way to get along in comments that appeared to rule out any military intervention in the country's political standoff. General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in comments reported online by the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper, called for "a framework for consensus". "The alternative is extremely dangerous," he said.

Mubarak appears in fresh trial over protester deaths

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Saturday to face a new trial for complicity in the murder of hundreds protesters during the 2011 uprising, as well as for corruption. The 85-year-old Mubarak, who was taken into court in a wheelchair dressed in white and wearing sunglasses, is on trial along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, and six security chiefs. He also faces corruption charges with his two sons, Alaa and Gamal. All defendants pleaded "not guilty" to the charges levelled against them.

Prominent Egypt youth activist jailed

Egypt's security forces on Friday detained the founder of one of the key youth movements behind the 2011 uprising that toppled the former regime upon his arrival at Cairo Airport from Vienna, a security official told AFP. Ahmed Maher of the April 6 movement was arrested at the airport "based on the orders of the general security department at the interior ministry," the official said. His passport was confiscated and he was transferred to the prosecution for questioning, the official MENA news agency said.

Egyptian court upholds acquittal of Mubarak allies

Cairo, May 8 (EFE).- An Egyptian appeals court upheld on Wednesday the acquittals of 24 allies of ousted President Hosni Mubarak who were accused of instigating an attack by government supporters on protesters in February 2011. The defendants, including two former leaders of parliament, were charged with having orchestrated what became known as the "Battle of the Camel." The Cairo criminal court found all 24 of the accused not guilty after a trial that ended last October, but government prosecutors appealed.

Insight: Egypt opposition can't harvest Brotherhood unpopularity

By Paul Taylor and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - It's harvest time in Egypt but the secular opposition is reaping scant benefit from the Muslim Brotherhood's difficulties in government, two years after an Arab Spring uprising swept away President Hosni Mubarak. Many Egyptians are looking to the army, or to more radical Salafi Muslim groups, rather than to liberal or leftist parties as Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and his cabinet struggle to revive a sick economy, restore security and build institutions.

Insight: Egypt opposition can't harvest Brotherhood unpopularity

By Paul Taylor and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - It's harvest time in Egypt but the secular opposition is reaping scant benefit from the Muslim Brotherhood's difficulties in government, two years after an Arab Spring uprising swept away President Hosni Mubarak. Many Egyptians are looking to the army, or to more radical Salafi Muslim groups, rather than to liberal or leftist parties as Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and his cabinet struggle to revive a sick economy, restore security and build institutions.

Egyptian billionaire Sawiris returns home to warm welcome

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris returned home on Friday, ending a self-imposed exile that began after the election of President Mohamed Mursi last year, and was warmly welcomed by a government grappling with an economic crisis. Sawiris, one of Egypt's most prominent Coptic Christians and a critic of Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood, was greeted at Cairo airport by an envoy of the Islamist president who presented him with flowers.

Tear gas fired as Egyptian Islamists target security HQ

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces fired tear gas to disperse a small group of hardline Islamist protesters who were attempting to scale the walls of the state security headquarters in a Cairo suburb late Thursday night. Around 2,000 protesters from several Salafi Islamist groups had staged a protest earlier on Thursday night outside the security headquarters against what they said was a return to the force's pre-revolution methods.
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