BBC New Egypt FGM trial 'convicts doctor of manslaughter' An Egyptian doctor has been convicted of the manslaughter of a girl who died after an illegal female genital mutilation procedure, activists say. Opponents of FGM were dismayed when Raslan Fadl was acquitted in November of charges relating to the death of 13-year-old Suhair al-Bataa. But after an appeal, a court in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura sentenced him to more than two years in prison. Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30983027 ARUTZ SHEVA Egyptian Court Overturns Hamas Ban Egypt's Emergency State Security Court on Monday overturned an earlier decision to list Hamas as a terrorist organization, the Ma'an news agency reported. The court ruled that determining whether or not Hamas is a terror group does not fall under its jurisdiction. The same court had decided in March 2014 to ban Hamas activities in Egypt and ordered the movement's assets to be seized. Read more: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/190542#.VMcvjf7oRZ8 Times Live Mubarak's sons move from jail to mansion The sons of deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak were released from prison yesterday, security officials said, a move that could fuel tension after the violent anniversary on Sunday of the 2011 uprising that toppled the autocrat. An Egyptian court last week ordered the release of Alaa and Gamal Mubarak pending their retrial in a corruption case. Mubarak's sons, big businessmen in his era of crony capitalism, were released at 2am, accompanied by their lawyer and bodyguards, and driven to their home in Cairo's upscale Heliopolis area, security officials said. Read more: http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2015/01/27/mubarak-s-sons-move-from-jail-to-mansion New York Times Killing of Protester Prompts Rare Criticism From Egyptian State Newspaper The killing of Shaimaa al-Sabbagh, a peaceful protester whose body was riddled with shotgun pellets on Saturday in Cairo, was condemned in an unusually frank editorial published Monday on the front page of Al Ahram, the flagship state newspaper in Egypt, and signed by its chairman, Ahmed Sayed el-Naggar. Although the police initially denied responsibility, and suggested that an unseen Islamist gunman might have fired the birdshot, the Ahram chairman, Mr. Naggar, wrote that the news footage and accounts of witnesses "clearly indicate the killer, the misuse of power and a failure to implement the law," according to a partial translation of the Ahram editorial from The Guardian. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/world/middleeast/killing-of-protester-prompts-rare-criticism-from-egyptian-state-newspaper.html?_r=0
