Ireland Foreign Minister disappointed at another adjournment of Halawa’s trial

Ireland’s Foreign Minister has said he was “disappointed and frustrated” at yesterday’s adjournment of the trial of Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa for the twentieth time. Halawa is in detention in Egypt and has been on hunger strike. A Cairo judge had ruled that a medical examiner look into Halawa’s health amid concerns that it is deteriorating rapidly, Irish Times reports. As we noted yesterday, these concerns had prompted the Irish government to task a committee of medical experts to follow up on the case.