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The Parliament of the Executive Authority approves in principle a discriminatory law that enables it to fire employees on the basis of their ideological or political affiliation …. and approves borrowing from the World Bank
The Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Affairs in the House of Representatives, headed by Counselor Ibrahim Henidi, approved, in its meeting now, a draft amendment to Law N° 10-1972 regarding dismissal without a disciplinary path, submitted by MP Ali Badr and more than 60 deputies in principle. The Secretary of the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee said that the law was in accordance with the constitution and the internal regulations of the House of Representatives, and the urgent need to issue this law emerged in light of the fight against terrorism within the state’s administrative apparatus.
The law stipulates that if the name of the employee involved falls from the list of terrorist entities, he maintains his right to return to work again. It is noteworthy that the terrorist Brotherhood has been classified by a court ruling as a terrorist group, and Counsellor Sayed Shaarawy, representative of the Ministry of Justice, confirmed that the non-disciplinary dismissal bill achieved the difficult equation between the societal interest and renunciation on the extremist ideas destructive of the state, and the existence of a legal guarantee, whether in the material return or the grievance before the administrative court. He added that the project does not contain discrimination, if it is not viewed as a single article, but as a whole under the constitutional provisions.
The Parliament’s Health Affairs Committee also approved, during its meeting on Tuesday, Presidential Decree N° 190-2021 approving a loan agreement between Egypt and the World Bank for Reconstruction and Development regarding a project to support the comprehensive health insurance system in Egypt with an amount of $400 million, signed on 20/1/2021, 21/1/2021.
The agreement aims to finance the subscriptions of those who are unable to participate in the comprehensive health insurance system, rehabilitate the infrastructure in the governorates in which the new system will be applied, as well as provide institutional support for the new system 2021.
- With 115 million pounds, the implementation of a project to develop the Shooting Club area in Alexandria has begun
- The "Big Seven" agree on a global corporate tax | 13 members of the Hunting Club were imprisoned for 15 days | Israel arrests Mona and Muhammad al-Kurd
- Lawyer: About 30 residents of Ezbet El-Said Club in Alexandria were arrested because of their objection to displacement | Owners of reconstruction equipment in Gaza: An agreement was reached to work in Rafah, Egypt
- Cabinet decisions.. The government announces the acceptance of all requests for reconciliation of building violations in the countryside
Al-Warraq Island in Giza was transformed into Horus Island, and the fishing club estate in Alexandria was converted under the pretext of development and there was no consolation for the people.
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi announced, beginning in June 2017, his intention to evacuate Al-Warraq Island from the population, which was followed by the media publication of a project attributed to the General Authority for Urban Planning revealing the details of transforming the island into a commercial, cultural, recreational, tourist park on the banks of the Nile under the name of Horus Island, before it was launched. The security services campaign to remove hundreds of houses on the island and expropriate their lands from the people. In the same vein, the governor of Alexandria announced in March of last year the development of seven places in Alexandria, including the Shooting Club estate, and the Slum Development Fund allocated 115 million pounds to it to develop the infrastructure of sewage, water, electricity, gas and pavement, which was then submitted by Representative Haitham Hariri to the House of Representatives with a request for a briefing, during which he considered that allocating this amount only to the area is a waste of public money because it needs comprehensive development similar to what happened in the Gheit al-Anab area in the governorate that was rebuilt and planned.
According to eyewitnesses from the people of the estate, they were surprised by a statement issued by Representative Mahmoud Qassem on Wednesday (May 28, 2021) announcing the existence of a decision to list all the houses in the area and the people in it, in preparation for handing them over new housing units, without explaining the transportation plan and the rights of all those affected, and after three days of the statement, a committee came to the area on the second of this June, a committee to list and number real estate, and on the next day that committee wrote down the names of the owners of the housing units (husband – wife) and photographed the apartments from the inside, and the committee asked the residents of the first five properties in the area to be in their apartments to complete the data Their move to Bashayer Al-Khair 3 and 5, and the procedures for receiving alternative apartments for their apartments there, and that the administration of the city of Bashayer Al-Khair told real estate residents that all of them will receive apartments at a rent of 300 pounds, and shop owners who will be compensated with shops within Bashayer Al-Khair 3 are being determined, but the residents of the nadi al asyd area objected, due to the unification of the way of dealing with the residents and the lack of consideration for their different circumstances pointing out that the compensation did not take into account the residents who own their apartments, and did not take into account who owns a factory and who owns a small workshop, and did not explain the vacant apartments that the families bought for their children’s marriage, and one of the people in the estate said:
One of the residents also stated that the police have been stationed in the area since the dispersal of the sit-in, while committees affiliated with the governorate are continuing the procedures for evacuating real estate from its residents.
In this context, the security services in Alexandria Governorate arrested, last Thursday, approximately 30 residents of nadi al sayd area, during their dispersal of a protest sit-in for the people in protest against the decision to displace them from their homes to the Bashayer Al-Khair area in the governorate, without explaining the transportation plan and compensating the people, according to a lawyer. A number of the families, the arrested were not brought before the prosecution until the date of writing the bulletin, and a number of them are being held in a forced camp for the central security in the governorate, and a number of the people of the area considered that the government wants to displace the residents of the nadi al sayd area to sell it to investors, as was done with the residents of the island papers before.
The Moharram Bek Prosecution Office in Alexandria decided to imprison 13 residents of Nadi al sayd area for 15 days pending investigations in Case N° 4675-2021, after accusing them of: protesting, gathering and inciting them, as well as throwing stones and injuring security forces.
The Council of Ministers also agreed to accept the requests submitted by citizens to reconcile building violations in the countryside, and to take into account the amount of the violation according to what the citizen submitted; This is in order to facilitate for the citizens of the Egyptian countryside, and to complete the delivery of facilities to them, within the framework of the presidential initiative “a decent life” to develop the Egyptian countryside. This approval does not apply to those who built on state property lands, provided that the applicant for reconciliation signs a declaration stating that he If it is proven that he submitted documents that are different from the construction he carried out on the ground, according to inspections, the concerned government agencies have the right, within a period of 3 years, to take legal measures against him.
Major changes in Egyptian foreign policy
State TV reported on Friday that Egypt had sent engineering equipment and technical staff to the Gaza Strip based on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s directives to begin the reconstruction process in the Strip after recent battles between Israelis and Palestinians, and state television footage showed dozens of bulldozers, cranes and trucks carrying Egyptian flags and lined up on the border to start crossing into Gaza. Palestinians lined up on the border from the Gaza side at the Rafah crossing to receive the convoy as it entered the Strip. A Palestinian border official said 50 trucks crossed into Gaza.
On the other hand, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, June 1st that his country hopes to maximize its cooperation with Egypt and the Gulf countries on the basis of an approach that benefits all, and Ankara is working to repair its relations with Cairo and some Gulf Arab countries, especially Egypt and Saudi Arabia, after bloody tension for years due to several issues, and opposing positions towards political Islam, the Libyan conflict and the eastern Mediterranean, in addition to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of a Saudi assassination team in the Kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul in October 2018, as well as because of Turkish support for Qatar in the Gulf crisis. In addition, Turkey has been striving hard in the few months of the past year to mend relations with regional powers, and sent a delegation to Cairo for talks, and its foreign minister, Cavus Davutoglu, held talks in Riyadh with his Saudi counterpart, Erdogan told TRT news channel, they have great potential for cooperation with Egypt in a wide range of fields and areas from the eastern Mediterranean to Libya, and that he loves the Egyptian people and therefore they are determined to resume this process.
Finally, after a long wait of bearing what is not appropriate for the Egyptian woman, she is empowered to be positioned in the judiciary and objections as to the start date of the application
The Supreme Council of Judicial Bodies issued historic decisions during its meeting headed by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and included the following decisions:
- The work of the female component in the State Council and the Public Prosecution will start from October 1st.
- Considering the 1st of October every year as a day for the Egyptian judiciary.
- Unifying the financial dues between the corresponding degrees in the four judicial bodies and authorities,
- Non-repetition of the names of those accepted for appointment to judicial bodies and authorities as of the 2018 batch graduates for the State Council and the Public Prosecution, and from the 2013 batch graduates for the Administrative Prosecution Authority and the State Cases Authority.
- Providing the State Litigation Authority with the reasons for not accepting the applicant for appointment to judicial positions and submit them to the judicial authority in the pending cases
- Not to repeat the delegation of a single judicial member in more than one entity - except for the Ministry of Justice - with a time limit for the delegation period.
- Approval of the establishment of the City of Justice in the Administrative Capital, and each body and judicial authority must submit its requests to the Ministry of Justice.
On the other hand, the founder of the “Platform is Her Right” campaign, Omnia Jadallah, filed last Saturday a lawsuit to the administrative court, challenging the decision of the State Council issued on March 14; By limiting the submission of the exceptional batch in the State Council to members of the Administrative Prosecution Authority and the State Litigation Authority, this meant excluding female lawyers and members of the teaching staff from the decision, which Jadallah considered in violation of the law of the State Council and the Constitution, due to its discrimination. Jadallah is being against: The President of the Republic, the Minister of Justice, and the President of the State Council. The case was registered under N° 51786 of the administrative judiciary, while a session for its consideration has not yet been set, and this is the fifth appeal submitted by Jadallah. The third lawsuitis against the State Council, in her continuous attempts to join the council, since her graduation in 2013, adding: “Even when women were accepted into the council, there was discrimination and violation of the law.”
After the release of 30 defendants in Case n°960-2020, the cycle of rotation and renewal swallows the ages of activists behind bars
Yesterday, the Third Circuit (terrorism) of the Cairo Criminal Court, held at the Institute of Police Trustees in Tora, decided yesterday to end the pre-trial detention of about 30 defendants in Case 960-2020. The court ordered that all of them be subject to one of the precautionary measures instead of imprisonment. Signed the demolition of some of the violating houses.
The State Security Prosecution decided to imprison the surgeon, ‘Hossam Chaaban’ (30 years), for fifteen days, after he was hidden for more than two weeks after his arrest, and he is one of the doctors assigned to Rafah Hospital to receive the Palestinians who were injured in the recent Israeli aggression on Gaza, whom the Public Prosecution charged with joining a terrorist group, publishing and broadcasting false news. ‘Hossam Chaaban’ published a tweet through his account on “Twitter”, in which he talks about his distribution and others to hospitals in North Sinai to provide medical relief services to those injured as a result of the aggression. He was arrested on the afternoon of May 15, after being summoned in Rafah to the Health Directorate in Arish the day after his arrival, to be taken by individuals in civilian clothes in a microbus to the National Security headquarters in Arish, to remain detained for more than 16 days, before being presented to the prosecution.
The Criminal Court considered the renewal of the detention of the researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, and a master’s student at the University of Bologna, Patrick George Zaki. The court’s decision to renew his detention came for an additional 45 days pending investigations. The court, before, enabled international diplomats to attend, promising to enable them to attend the next session. On the last session on the 5th of April 2021, when they came to the headquarters of the last session they were not allowed in and promised that they will be enabled on the following session. In that session, after handing them letters from their embassies, as is customary, as they were waiting for the court to allow them to enter, the session was being held without them. The court later justified this to the lawyers that a permit must be obtained from the President of the Court of Appeal to enable them to attend, unlike the previous practice. Patrick’s defence at the April 5 hearing had demanded to consider the renewal of his detention before another circuit. He waited for the court’s decision to withdraw from the consideration of the renewal of detention which did not happen.
The leader of the Egyptian Sports Club Zamalek Supporters Association, Sayed Mochagheb, known as “Kabo Ultras White Knights”, announced that he will enter into an open hunger strike starting Saturday, after completing six years of solitary imprisonment, where he is deprived of his most basic rights.
The Criminal Court decided to renew the detention of human rights lawyer Amr Imam, for 45 days, on the charges of participation of a terrorist group, misuse of social media, and spreading false news.
The Cairo Criminal Court, held in the Tora, decided to renew the detention of the former parliamentarian Ziad Al-Alimi, the activist Hossam Moonis, the journalist Hichem Fouad, the economic expert Omar El-Shenety, and 6 others, for 45 days pending investigations into the case. They are accused of financing the terrorist Brotherhood, helping it achieve its goals and spreading false news, within the framework of the so-called “Plan of Hope ”.
Fire of the penitentiary institution in Al-Marg: 4 accused are imprisoned for 15 days, pending investigations
The opposition judge in the Marg Court decided to renew the detention of 4 defendants for 15 days, for the death of 6 children and the injury of 19 others in a fire that broke out in the penitentiary institution in Marg, and the prosecution requested the medical report of the children injured in the fire and assigned the Public Prosecution to follow up immediately with the hospitals that the children were taken to. In order to find out the latest developments in their health, and to indicate the possibility of listening to their statements. On Thursday evening, the Al-Marg area witnessed a state of panic and fear among citizens after a huge fire broke out in the penitentiary institution of the Ministry of Social Solidarity .
The epidemiological situation: convoys to vaccinate pensioners and the number of doctors’ martyrs continues to rise
– In a statement issued by the Ministry of Health and population, medical convoys were launched to provide the Coronavirus vaccine to pensioners in front of the post offices in all governorates of the Republic. The Minister of Health announced: 2500 pensioners received the Coronavirus vaccine during the first day of launching the medical convoys.
Tunisia
Parliament Abir Moussi continues to lead the populist caricature scene, and the Constitutional Court law is remanded again to the President of the Republic
The Democratic Bloc submitted a request to the President of the Parliament to hold a public session for dialogue with the Chief of government regarding the dangerous situation in the country. The bloc justified its request by the seriousness of the financial limbo, the sharp increase in prices, the high unemployment rate, sectoral strikes, relations with the International Monetary Fund the Chief of government’s visits to Libya and Qatar, the activation of the urban workers’ agreement and the law of those whose unemployment has been prolonged.
The Council continues to consider the electoral law, as the Committee on Internal Regulation, Immunity, Parliamentary Laws, and Electoral Laws continued to discuss and vote on the chapters of Bills related to amending the electoral law in its session held on June 03rd, 2021, and after extensive discussion, the committee ended up voting on a number of chapters of the proposed law N° 20-2021,and the most important amendments listed were related to the following points:
- Raising the prescription deadline for electoral crimes from three to five years.
- Defining the referendum as a democratic mechanism that is exercised in the form of direct general suffrage to which voters are called to decide on constitutional, legislative or local issues.
- Mentioning the possibility of adopting remote registration within the Republic in cases where it is not required to prove a new physical address or where the physical address is identical to the address indicated in the national identification card
- Enable the authority to approve mobile offices for registration
- Prohibition of running for membership in the Assembly of the Representatives of the People and for the presidential elections shall be imposed on anyone who bears responsibility within the facilitating body of an assembly during the twelve months preceding the election day
- Establishing an urgent appeal system for the electoral campaign.
- Inclusion of provisions related to the organization of the local referendum stipulated in the Local Authorities Code within the electoral law.
Moussi also continued her reviews inside the parliament, where a number of members of the parliament’s office announced on Thursday, June 3, 2021, their withdrawal from his work, threatening to suspend their membership against the background of what they considered the practice of Representative Abir Moussi “deliberate confusion and bullying”, and MP Samia Abbou described in her statement that Abir Moussi’s acts are mere “thugry and bullying.”
MP Mabrouk Karshid suggested the possibility of them freezing their membership within the office or resigning from it, after it was impossible to continue working because of Moussi’s practices, while MP Hafedh Zouari accused his colleague, Abir Moussi, of trying to tarnish and disrupt his work and impose Her views forcefully. In addition, Parliament President Rached Ghannouchi announced the adjournment of the Parliament’s office meeting after Abir Moussa deliberately broadcasted its work directly and entered into altercations with some deputies.
The constitutional party’s show also extended outside the dome of the parliament, where its president entered into an open sit-in with a group of deputies in Bardo Square, denouncing what she called the “Brotherhood System” and demanding the departure of Rached Ghannouchi from the presidency of Parliament. The party’s supporters had flocked to “March 20 Street” in Bardo, where they conducted a march to the surroundings of the Parliament demanding to emancipate the Parliament from the Brotherhood’s dictatorship, according to the slogans.
The temporary Authority responsible for the monitoring of the constitutionality of laws decided to remand the revised draft law relating to the Constitutional Court to the President of the Republic, due to the lack of the required majority within the body to take a decision in its regard. The commission did not reach the required decision regarding the appeal submitted by a number of deputies. The members of the Authority were divided between supporters of the appeal and those who rejected it. Based on the division and the failure to take a final decision, the commission decided to refer the law to the Presidency of the Republic to take the appropriate decision upon it.
The Presidency of the Republic is taking part in an economic marathon in Brussels
On Thursday morning, June 3, 2021, the President of the Republic, Kais Saied, received at Carthage Palace, the French Prime Minister, Mr. Jean Castex, who was accompanied by the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jean-Yves Le Drian. Bilateral cooperation has reached the level of distinguished partnership in all fields, especially in economic, social, cultural and security fields, and stressed the importance of strengthening the coordination of implementation of joint projects and programmes, especially those related to employment, youth rehabilitation, migration, sustainable development, health, scientific and technological research, and reiterated Tunisia’s keenness to organize the next summit for Francophonie on time.
On Thursday, June 3rd , 2021, the President of the Republic visited Belgium, accompanied by the First Lady of Tunisia, Ichraf Chebil, where they met the Belgian King Philippe, at the Royal Palace in Brussels.
The President of the Republic, Kais Saied, also had a conversation in Brussels with the President of the European Commission, Mrs. Ossola von der Leyen, during which he expressed Tunisia’s aspiration for the European Union to continue to support its efforts to obtain vaccines against the Covid-19 virus, especially in light of the continuing spread of this pandemic. He stressed, as well, the importance of optimizing the cultural common denominators between Tunisia and the European Union and strengthening partnership, cooperation and investment frameworks between them in order to implement diversified and purposeful programs and projects in Tunisia, especially in the health, youth and women empowerment, job creation, comprehensive treatment of the phenomenon of irregular migration, encouragement of scientific research and innovation, and support sectors Culture, higher education and modern technologies for communication sectors. He pointed out that Tunisia is aware of its need to carry out fundamental economic and social reforms, and in this it relies on its national capabilities, in the first place, as well as on the support of its partners in the world, led by the European Union, in order to be able to develop its economic and social indicators and raise the challenges it faces.
The President of the Republic also met with the President of the European Parliament, Mr. David Maria Sassoli, and called on the President, in this context, to explore new horizons for the strong friendship ties between Tunisia and the European Union in order to achieve economic recovery and partnership for young people, as well as to adopt a comprehensive and renewed approach to the migration file, and to support the efforts of Tunisia in providing vaccines against the Covid-19 virus, considering the right to health as one of the most important human rights, as well as intensifying cooperation and exchange in the field of combating terrorism and achieving security.
Governmental work: The work of the third session of the Higher Council for Tunisian-French Cooperation, in the presence of the French Prime Minister, induces to the signature of a number of agreements
On Wednesday evening, June 2nd , 2021, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi received French Prime Minister Jean Castax, who made an official visit to Tunisia on June 02 and 03, in the honorary hall of Tunis Carthage International Airport. The French Prime Minister is accompanied on this visit by a ministerial delegation and a number of heads of French economic institutions. The two countries also participated in the economic meeting on digitization organized by the Tunisian Federation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, in the presence of a number of heads of economic institutions. French Prime Minister Jean Castax will have meetings and discussions on the reality and prospects of joint cooperation with President Kais Saied, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, and President of the Tunisian Union of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts Samir Majoul.
A joint press conference was held between the Chief of government and the French Prime Minister during the closure of the work of the Supreme Council of Cooperation.
Jean Castax highlighted that the security challenges of the two countries were addressed in depth and in practical and tangible ways in order to further enhance cooperation in this context, recalling that the two countries face major challenges on their territories, especially in the fight against terrorism, noting that Tunisia’s accession to the “Christchurch Call” to combat cyber extremism constitutes an important stage to both countries, as well as with regards to cooperation at the level of migration and the movement of individuals, recalling in this context the need for France and its European partners to strengthen cooperation frameworks in the field of migration and the need to control the flow of illegal migrants. He also added that the Libyan dossier was also addressed, in this sense Tunisia and France join forces within the framework of the Security Council and the United Nations to support the process of restoring stability in Libya, indicating that this is a vital issue for Tunisia’s security and development.
During this meeting, a number of Tunisian-French cooperation agreements were signed under the supervision of Chief of government Hichem Mechichi and French Prime Minister Jean Castax, and in the presence of the delegations of the two countries. Most of these agreements were related to the economic aspect of Tunisia and the attempt to advance it.
The Chief of Government also paid a visit to Qatar, where he had a meeting with the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of Qatar.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Tunisians Abroad, Mr. Othman Jarandi, also held a meeting with Mr. Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, on the occasion of his visit to our country as part of the high-level delegation accompanying the French Prime Minister Jean-Castax. During this meeting, a number of French-Tunisian joint cooperation agreements in different fields were agreed upon, namely:
- Sovereign loan agreement to finance a project aimed at raising the Tunisian capabilities to confront natural disasters.
- A partnership agreement to develop the industrial and environmental capabilities of the two desalination plants between the National Company for Water Exploitation and Distribution (SONEDE), the French Development Agency and the French company Aquassay.
- A financing agreement to create an environmental and social management system at the Merchant Marine and Ports Office.
- Sovereign loan agreement for the benefit of the Office of the Merchant Navy and Ports.
- A declaration of intent document to support cooperation in the commercial field.
- Partnership and cooperation agreement in the agricultural field.
- A declaration of intent document in the digital field.
Being stripped, dragged on the public road and accused of murder under torture: Security crimes take a systematic and institutional nature
Tunisia lived on Tuesday, June 8th, in what could be considered the ugliest, most terrifying and criminal scenes since the end of the rule of Ben Ali. These events took place in the Sidi Hssine area when a minor was stripped of all his clothes, dragged and assaulted publically by security men and then detained in inhuman circumstances. A large group of organizations and unions issued a statement condemning the incident, which they consider to be a convict and a criminal, and any attempt to float it or belittle it can only result in the denial of a clear and confirmed crime and support the path of impunity in the security crimes that have escalated in recent years and become systematic and institutional.
It also held the Prime Minister and the Acting Minister of Interior responsible for the deviation in the security establishment towards leniency in wasting the lives of Tunisian women and men and trampling their dignity, and calls on him to take urgent measures that do justice to the victims and their families, restore respect for them, and put an end to the security establishment’s employment in solving social, economic and political crises away from repugnant discourses about protecting Rights and Freedoms and called for a press conference on Tuesday, June 15th, starting from ten in the morning at the headquarters of the National Union of Tunisian Journalists, in the presence of the families of the victims, in order to enlighten public opinion more about what happened in the aforementioned two crimes, and to announce the total procedures required in this regard.
The inhumane security practices did not stop there. On the same day, the neighbourhood of Al-Jayara witnessed a death in suspicious circumstances of the young Ahmed ben Moncef ben Ammar after he was arrested by the security agents, which sparked popular protests condemning the practices of the security forces and demanding effective accountability for the perpetrators.
The former member of the Revolution Protection Leagues and the mayor of ‘Le Kram’ , Fathi Ayouni, bullyies journalists and media professionals out of the state’s control
In a dangerous precedent, militias affiliated with the mayor of Le Kram besieged and stormed into the headquarters of Shams FM radio station and attacked its employees verbally and materially, as well as threatened a number of journalists.
The mayor harnessed the capabilities of the municipality of Kram in order to carry out this attack, which reminds us of his past with the “revolutionary protection leagues that ravaged the country and had a series of attacks on media institutions and national organizations. The National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists issued a statement condemning the incident and calling on the government to assume its responsibility towards the repeated violations of the mayor of Kram and the protection of freedom of expression gained in Tunisia.
An attack on a Tunisian citizen in Italy by beating, and the deputy of the department justifies the aggressors
The flagrant attacks on human rights continue and are increasing in severity, as a Tunisian citizen is insulted abroad. In this context, the users of social networking sites recently circulated a video clip documenting the severe violence of a group of Italians on a Tunisian citizen, which was confirmed by the representative of the Italian district, Majdi Karbai, as well as he explained that a group of Italians attacked the Tunisian citizen after he committed immoral practices while under the influence of alcohol.
Ultra groups accuse the state of discrimination and demand the opening of runways and threaten to escalate
In the last two days, football groups called for a number of demonstrations and protests to denounce what they considered a double standard on the issue of implementing the health protocol by depriving sports fans from attending football matches, especially the important ones, while political parties are authorized to conduct political movements in the absence of the most basic safety conditions.
The Tunisian sports club, “Esperance”, who is playing on June 19, the African Champions League semi-final against the Egyptian “Al-Ahly team”, considered that the Tunisian state is using the health protocol to suppress freedom of expression, calling on the ultra-groups to unite in order to be united before what they consider to be a corrupt political system
Mechichi receives a French donation to combat Coronavirus
The Chief of Government Hichem Mechichi received at Tunis-Carthage International Airport a French donation of 3 units for the production of oxygen destined for the hospitals of Sfax, Sidi Bouzid and Tataouine, as well as medical supplies including masks and respirators, worthy of 3 million euros.
The health situation has not been stable for a while, as it alternates, Dr. Nissaf Ben Alaya stated in this regard that the level of the epidemic alert is very high at the national level. As the Ministry of Health recorded on June 2nd , 2021, 1925 new cases and 73 deaths, the health situation is witnessing a significant deterioration in many regions, as Kairouan, Sidi Bouzid, Tataouine and Sfax recorded high numbers of new infections and deaths
Libya
Sovereign positions are an obstacle to ending the crisis
Sovereign positions in Libya have become an obstacle standing in the way of ending the crisis and an hurdle that disrupts many of the benefits, and the unification of institutions ahead of the elections, and the sovereign positions that are scheduled to be resolved by the House of Representatives and the Supreme Council of the State are, the governor of the Central Bank, the head of the Audit Bureau, the head of the Administrative Control Authority, and the head The Anti-Corruption Commission, in addition to the president and members of the High Electoral Commission and the President of the Supreme Court, along with the position of the Attorney General.
In an attempt to resolve differences, the Speakers of the Libyan Parliament, Aqila Saleh and the Supreme Council of State, Khaled Al-Mashri, met to discuss the file of the distribution of sovereign leadership positions in the country, in order to complete the plan to unify the institutions. Saleh also met in the city of Al-Qubba in eastern Libya, members of the Supreme Council of State Committee to sort the files of candidates for positions Sovereignty, and the Libyan House of Representatives said, in a statement, that the meeting, which was attended by a member of the House of Representatives committee to sort out the files of the candidates, during which the file of sovereign positions was discussed, in an attempt to accomplish this “important” entitlement at this stage. Marathon and arduous regarding the sharing of the highest sovereign positions in Morocco. ‘Said’ revealed in his blogging on “Facebook”, Thursday, about the arrival of ‘Al-Mashri’ to Morocco and waiting for the arrival of another delegation headed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and stressed the need to speed up the achievement of the upcoming benefits, the most important of which is the unification of institutions and consensus on the basis of Constitutional to hold elections next December.
The file of sovereign positions in Libya is facing a serious crisis. When the House of Representatives insists on adhering to the outputs of the ‘Bouznika’ Agreement, and distributing sovereign positions according to the geographical criterion over the three historical regions of the country, Cyrenaica, Tripoli and Fezzan, the “highest state” seeks to resolve the most important of these positions in its favour, without taking into account the agreement. The aforementioned, and according to the outcomes of a meeting of the committee (13 + 13), which was formed between the House of Representatives and the Supreme Council of State, which was held last February 2021, the sovereign positions were distributed based on the geographical criterion over the three regions of Libya; Where the Cyrenaica region (east) was granted the Central Governor of Libya and the Administrative Control Authority, Tripoli (west) the Audit Bureau and the High Elections Commission, and Fezzan (south) the Anti-Corruption Commission and the Supreme Court, and the committee agreed that every candidate for any of the sovereign positions should have Libyan nationality only. In addition to the element of competence and academic qualification and not having held sovereign positions in the past, provided that the nomination process for positions is open to all Libyans, before the files are sorted by the Supreme Council of State and the Libyan Parliament to choose the best and most unanimous candidate from both parties and to put in place mechanisms to fight corruption in sovereign positions, and to benefit from international expertise to build state institutions.
Algerian Prime Minister ‘Abdelaziz Jarad’ also received members of the Presidential Council, Moussa Al-Koni and Abdullah Al-Lafi, who began a two-day official visit to discuss the developments in the Libyan situation. The content of the visit was not revealed, and the visit of the two members of the Presidential Council bears a political character, as it comes days after the first visit of the Prime Minister of the Unity Government, Abdel Hamid Dabaiba, to Algeria at the head of a large delegation of ministers, especially as it anticipates the coordination of positions prior to the convening of the second Berlin Conference, in which Mohamed El Manfi, Algeria and 12 Other countries were present , and Dabaiba and Jarad had agreed to open the land borders to the movement of goods and then travellers, and to resume flights with Algeria, and they also discussed the possibility of opening a maritime line also with Tripoli, and it was agreed on the return of the oil giant “SONATRACH” to resume work in the field of oil exploration in the Ghadames Basin. On more than one occasion, Algeria has expressed its willingness to embrace a dialogue between the Libyans and to complete the chapters of reconciliation between them, the latest of which was revealed by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune about his The Prime Minister of the National Unity Government officially demanded that the reconciliation process take place in Algeria, considering it honourable because the Libyan brothers are well aware that Algeria does not have any ambitions, except to return the favour to the Libyan people who stood with us during the holy revolution.
When will the Libyan Joint Military Committee (5+5) be able to unify the military institution
A spokesman for the “Libyan National Army” announced that 4 people were killed and several others were injured when a car bomb exploded in front of a checkpoint in the southern Libyan city of Sabha, and said: A suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint, killing the head of the criminal investigation department in the city and 3 other people. Their identities have not yet been revealed. As a result of the explosion, a number of people were injured and 3 cars belonging to the city’s security department were burned.
An informed source also confirmed that the explosion led to the killing of two officers from the Criminal Investigation Service and the injury of others from the security elements in an initial outcome of the attack, and that among the dead was an officer named ‘Ibrahim Abdelnabi’. In the same context, the Libyan Joint Military Committee (5+5) called for the need to open the road On Tuesday, the 5 + 5 Committee held a periodic meeting through the closed circuit in the presence of the United Nations Mission and the Support Group consisting of the countries sponsoring the Berlin outputs, and the Military Committee explained, in a statement, that the most important obstacles facing the implementation of the provisions of the agreement were reviewed. The Geneva Agreement, regarding the opening of the coastal road, the evacuation of mercenaries and the dismantling of armed groups. The committee said that the Presidential Council directed what is known as the Volcano Operations Room of the Government of National Accord previously to open the coastal road, in his capacity as the supreme commander, until the road is cut off from any allegations of subordination.
The members of the committee stressed their observation of the lack of real cooperation and commitment from the countries interfering in the Libyan issue, thus hampering the security and stability sought by the Libyans who are tired of repeating the meetings of the military group without tangible results on the ground, and demanded the need to speed up the completion of the Geneva decisions, considering it the way towards achieving the will of And last April, the Libyan Joint Military Committee (5 + 5) called on all countries to respect the ceasefire agreement and the withdrawal of foreign forces and mercenaries from the country. At the end of its three-day meetings, the Libyan Joint Military Committee assigned the joint military force to begin carrying out the tasks assigned to it, while it chose the city of Sirte, central Libya, to be the headquarters for the command of this force.
In a statement, the US Special Envoy to Libya, Ambassador Richard Norland, discussed by phone with the Libyan Deputy Prime Minister ‘Ramadan Abu Jinnah’, security, unification of military forces, national reconciliation and preparation for elections in Libya. Expressing his condolences to the families of the victims, he affirmed the United States’ support for the Libyan government’s ongoing efforts to improve security in the south, unify the country’s military forces, increase border control in the southern region, and protect sovereignty, and welcomed the Deputy Prime Minister’s firm commitment to achieving sustainable reconciliation across the country. Both stressed the necessity of holding national elections on their scheduled date on December 24.
The Incident of Abir, the Jordanian Girl: Accusations of Armed Groups in the East of Running a Network of Sexual Slavery and official Jordanian Interest
The “Libya Feminists” organization reported that the Jordanian citizen, Abir Ahmed Omar Khalil, was kidnapped by what it described as “Haftar’s militias” after she was visiting her uncles in the city of Benghazi. And they took turns raping and torturing her for two days, Ali Ferjani, Monoam Al-Bakh, Mondher and Monoam Fitouri, nicknamed “Monoam Hash”, who are affiliated with Haftar’s forces, and after that her hair was shaved in a live broadcast on Facebook. The organization pointed out that Haftar forces continue to target women in a context of a complete absence of, noting that Haftar’s forces run a network of sexual slavery, as the late Hanan al-Barasi had previously spoken about; Where girls and women are kidnapped inside their restrooms and sexually assaulted, and then blackmailed, photographed and threatened with death if they decide to seek justice for themselves and punish the perpetrators. In addition to that, the families of the victims remain silent by fear for their threatened lives, which made achieving justice impossible, according to the organization. The “Libya Feminists” organization strongly condemned the crimes against humanity and against women, and demanded the Government of National Unity to stop ignoring the ongoing violations against women in Libya, and also appealed to the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Interior to carry out their duties, and the organization concluded its statement by saying:
Earlier, the head of Victims Organization for Human Rights, Nasser Al-Hawari, explained that the incident of the girl, Abir Ahmed Omar Khalil, was carried out by Ali Ferjani, who is affiliated with Haftar’s forces, with the participation of a number of members of his group, “Monoam Al-Bakh”, “Mondher” and “Monoam Fitouri”. Nicknamed “Monoam al-Hanash,” the head of the organization stated that everything rumoured about the existence of a previous relationship between the girl and Ali Ferjani is false. The head of the organization demanded from the Attorney General in Benghazi and the Military Prosecutor to take the necessary measures, to summon Ali Ferjani and his group and investigate them as a criminal case, noting that there is great interest and follow-up by the Jordanian Embassy, the United Nations Human Rights Department and several organizations An international human rights advocate, Al-Hawari stressed that when the lacking security starts to exist in Benghazi, many girls will be able to file complaints against similar incidents.
The Government of National Unity is looking for a comprehensive approach to combating trafficking and human smuggling
The Minister of Interior of the Interim Government of National Unity, Khaled Mazen, said that the number of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean this year reached 9,216 illegal immigrants, and explained that this number was registered even before completing six months of the year 2021, compared to 7106 migrants during Last year (2020). He called on European officials to provide support and possible facilities in order to contain the phenomenon of irregular migration. This came during Minister Mazen’s meeting at the Cabinet Office with the European Union Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ylva Johansson, in the presence of a number of heads of agencies and directors of relevant departments, He stressed that the problem of irregular migration is not a Libyan problem, but rather an international phenomenon that requires cooperation from everyone in order to find solutions to it, and a comprehensive approach must be taken to combat smugglers and enhance the humanitarian situation.
Epidemiological situation
Health-wise, the authorities in Libya announced, on Monday, 407 new cases of corona, the recovery of 208 people, and 3 deaths within 24 hours. The National Centre for Disease Control in Libya said, in a statement, that the capital, Tripoli, witnessed the largest number of new infections with 136 injuries and 153cured cases. He added that the total number of people infected with Coronavirus in Libya increased to 187,658 persons, including 11,145 active cases, and 3,146 deceased.
Last update : 10/06/2021 - 15:00
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