Egypt’s military releases scribe

CAIRO, Nov 10, (AFP): Egypt’s military on Tuesday freed prominent rights defender and reporter Hossam Bahgat, a day after his detention sparked calls for his release from the United Nations, a rights activist told AFP.

“He called me and said he’s been released from the military intelligence building,” said Gasser Abdel-Razek, executive director of the Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights group that Bahgat founded.

Bahgat had been summoned by the military on Sunday for questioning over an investigative report on a military trial.

He was held overnight and then military prosecutors remanded him in custody for four days. London Mayor and member of parliament Boris Johnson looks at pictures of Jewish Holocaust victims at the Hall of Names on Nov 10, during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem commemorating the six million Jews killed by the German

Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. (AFP)