sat 19 dec 2015, 15:14

Egypt allows case against Irish for 11th time

CAIRO –

Egypt has Saturday the treatment of a case against a now twenty-year-old Irish-Egyptian for the third time postponed. Ibrahim Halawa was two years ago, when he was still a minor, was arrested during a demonstration against the government. Since then, he, without his case ever occurred.

According to the Irish Examiner, the handling of the case has now been postponed until 9 January.

It is not clear whether the renewed postponement has something to do with the plea of the European Parliament to get the man free. The Egyptian ministry of Foreign Affairs gave on Friday that the request, that is an “interference in the independent judiciary” of Egypt was and rejected it.