CAIRO – 5 December 2020: A judge from the Cairo Court of Appeal announced the lack of any ground to file a legal claim against 20 civil society organizations, either for insufficient evidence or the absence of offense, in the case known as “foreign funding case”. In a statement, Counselor Ali Mukhtar, the investigative judge delegated from the Cairo Court of Appeal to investigate the case No. 173 of 2011 announced a decision to remove the names of those who were included in the investigations from the travel ban lists. The decision also orders removing their names from lists of those banned from disposing of their money, in the “foreign funding case” only. This means that if any of these persons are under similar investigations in another case, they may not be able to be included in this decision.

Source: Egypt Today December 05, 2020 22:52 UTC