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Human rights campaigners say they’ve substantiated claims that members of the Egyptian military carried out at least seven unlawful killings, including a 17 year old boy shot dead at point blank range.
Lindsey Hilsum
What do you do when the only person standing up to your worst enemy is a thug and a bully? Not a playground problem but the realpolitik of the Middle East today.
Today Egyptians vote again on a new constitution – a draft document that would leave the army’s powers intact and cast the Muslim Brotherhood back into the political wilderness.
Was the ousting of President Morsi a democratic move from the people – or a military coup? Shereen El Feki, author of Sex and the Citadel and Dr Azzam Tamimi, Muslim Brotherhood supporter debate.
An Islamist coalition, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, urges its supporters to take to the streets and protest against a military coup that ousted Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi.
President Morsi is ousted as Egypt’s president, and the army announces a temporary transitional period and new elections “to establish trust, peace and stability for the people”.
Thousands of Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square to support President Mohamed Morsi’s decision to replace his defence minister and army chief while ordering several senior generals to retire.
Lindsey Hilsum
We should have known the name of the new Egyptian President today, but the election committee said it needed more time to investigate complaints from the two candidates.
Moves by Egypt’s military to limit the powers of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi, likely winner of the presidential election, may yet produce a more democratic Egypt, writes Jonathan Rugman.
“In Tahrir Square itself the grass has died, and much youthful optimism with it.”
Partial results indicate Islamist candidate Mohammed Mursi will be pitted against Mubarak-era Ahmed Shafiq in the second round of the Egyptian presidential election.
Former Egyptian prime minister, Kamal Ganzouri, accepts the ruling general’s request to form a new government.
Two months on from the revolution, Channel 4 News hears powerful allegations of torture, arbitrary detention and sham trials by the Egyptian armed forces once hailed as heroes.
What has really happened in EGypt? The army has handed over to itself – defacto military rule now a real one, so what is the difference asks Lindsey Hilsum?
Israel’s Prime Minister has told the military to prepare a plan to evacuate Rafah. More than half of Gaza’s population is currently sheltering in the southern city, crammed next to the border with Egypt.