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Journalist, Researcher Ismail Al-Iskandarani Interrogated by State Security Prosecutors

December 1, 2015

By Hend Kortam, Aswat Masriya Internationally acclaimed Egyptian researcher and journalist Ismail Al-Iskandarani, an expert on Sinai affairs, is currently being interrogated by State Security prosecutors following his arrest Sunday night. At time of publishing, there was still no news on the results of the ongoing interrogation or whetherAl-Iskandarani will face charges. The State Security prosecution is a branch of prosecution which is typically involved in cases that affect national security. Al-Iskandarani was arrested at Egypt’s Hurghada airport on Sunday upon his return from a U.S. and Europe seminar tour where he was both a speaker and attendee. Initially, his wife Khadeega said on Twitter that he was stopped at the airport in a routine questioning, but as the hours passed she said she learned that Egypt’s Homeland Security (also known as State Security) had him arrested based on a report filed against him by the Egyptian embassy in Berlin. Al-Iskandarani was speaking at a conference titled “Deconstructing Islamist Terrorism in Egypt” organised by the German Council on Foreign Relations. The Egypt-based human rights group the Arab Network for Human Rights Information demanded his urgent and unconditional release in a statement on Tuesday. The group…


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