Paola Regeni starts fast to protest activist’s arrest in Egypt
Topping coverage of Egypt in the foreign press this morning is return of the bodies of 20 Egyptian Christians beheaded in Libya in 2015, according to statements by a Libyan security official to Reuters.
Meanwhile, Paula Regeni, the mother of murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni, began yesterday a fast to protest the arrest of Egyptian activist Amal Fathy, the Associated Press reports. Fathy, who was arrested last week after posting a Facebook video about her personal experience with [redacted] harassment, is married to the rights lawyer who has been helping the Regeni family with the investigation into their son’s death in Cairo.
Also worth noting in brief this morning:
- The state security prosecutor ordered the detention of 20 people yesterday for protesting against the latest metro ticket price hikes, bringing the total number of people jailed for participating in these demonstrations to 30, Reuters reports.
- Egyptian citizen Abdalla Omran has been held in immigration detention in the US since 2015, after he overstayed a tourist visa and resisted deportation twice, Murtaza Hussain and Alice Speri write for The Intercept.
- An Egyptian food technology researcher is experimenting with producing baladi bread with a low wheat content to reduce Egypt’s need to import wheat, according to Black Sea Grain.