Egypt in the News: Mohamed El Amin trafficking case + City of the Dead mausoleums under threat

It’s a mixed bag in the pages of the foreign press this morning: The trafficking and assault allegations against former CBC owner Mohamed El Amin are getting ink in the Guardian after a local court extended his pre-trial detention for a further 15 days. Meanwhile, the Financial Times reports that thousands of mausoleums in Cairo’s historic City of the Dead could be destroyed to make way for a new road, as the government continues with its huge infrastructure drive to ease traffic congestion in the nation’s capital. Lastly, Canada’s CBC reports that Canadian-Egyptian citizen Joseph Attar has returned to Canada after 15 years of imprisonment in Egypt. Attar was arrested in Cairo in 2007 on spying charges.