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Jun. 3, 2015
Senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders Mahmoud Ghozlan and Abdul Rahman al-Barr are arrested in Cairo after evading police for almost two years. MORE
Editorial criticizes United States and other nuclear powers for squandering United Nations disarmament conference in May; regrets dispute between Egypt and Israel that seemed to derail negotiations over weapons-free zone in the Middle East; notes deteriorating relations between US and Russia have stalled efforts to further reduce arsenals in both countries, making it more difficult to argue for restraint in smaller nuclear powers. MORE
Egyptian court acquits 17 people who had been charged with illegally protesting after they witnessed police killing of poet Shaimaa el-Sabbagh during peaceful march in January. MORE
Editorial deplores fact that Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, may be executed, act that would further inflame Islamists already incensed by relentless crackdown of Egyptian authorities on Muslim Brotherhood; notes that trial in which Morsi and 100 co-defendants were sentenced to death was sham; urges American government to display more concern about crackdown. MORE
Egypt executes six men convicted at killing two military officers in skirmish at suspected bomb factory in Cairo in March 2014 and of belonging to ISIS affiliate Ansar Beit al-Maqdis; execution brings condemnation from Amnesty International. MORE
Deposed Egyptian Pres Mohamed Morsi of Muslim Brotherhood, country's first freely elected leader, is sentenced to death, along with 100 others, for his part in 2011 prison break during revolt against Pres Hosni Mubarak; conviction is most recent sign of undoing of uprising that ended with Mubarak's ousting; sentence must still be approved by nation's top Sunni Muslim authority. MORE
Evidence points to Egyptian Pres Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's voice on two embarrassing recordings; he and his inner circle of generals are heard laughing at their Persian Gulf patrons, and manipulating the courts, news media and neighboring countries. MORE
Egyptian Justice Min Mahfouz Saber resigns in face of public outcry after saying in TV interview that children of sanitation workers could not succeed as judges. MORE
Journalist Mohamed Fahmy, naturalized Canadian who gave up Egyptian citizenship and is now facing terrorism charges in Egypt, files suit in Canada claiming that he and others were endangered by skewed priorities of his employer Al Jazeera. MORE
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