For its part, Turkey was harshly critical of the overthrow in 2013 of Mohammed Morsi, a close Turkey ally whose one year as president in Egypt ended when the military, then led by Mr El Sisi, removed .
On December 22, the Court of Cassation will review Badr Mohamed's appeal against his wrongful conviction and five-year prison sentence.
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An Egyptian man previously involved in anti-government protests was arrested in Saudi Arabia and now faces extradition to his home country and possible torture, his wife and rights groups said.
She fled to Egypt in late 2011 after both her brother and sister were killed by snipers in Daraa as security forces sought to suppress growing protests.
Egyptian demonstrators fought security forces into the early hours of Friday in the city of Suez, and the Internet was blocked ahead of the biggest protests yet planned against President Hosni .
Laila Soueif, the mother of democracy activist Alaa Abd el Fattah, says David Lammy would be "very embarrassed" if she died as a result of a hunger strike she started almost two months ago over her .
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Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has so far made no comment about the downfall of his long-time ally, Bashar Al-Assad.
CBS News correspondent Lara Logan suffered a "brutal and sustained sexual assault" last week while reporting in Cairo's Tahrir Square, CBS said Tuesday.
Former Egyptian antiquities minister Zahi Hawass said the piece appeared to have been “stolen” in the 1970s from the Karnak Temple complex just north of Luxor.