Bleak Cairo

As the Christians mourn and bury their dead, feeling betrayed by the security forces and measures taken by the government to protect them and also angry at reporters of state-controlled media for not advocating the protection of Copts more vociferously, the President has said he feels that reporting such incidents once is enough and footage should not be repeated in order to save the feelings of the relatives of the victims.   Another reason for such a view might be to save the further highlighting of the failure, so far, of the central plank of his 'overthrow' rational in 2013 which was to bring security to the country.    

The re-imposed Emergency Law that Mubarak had in force for 30 years, when approved soon by the Sisi-supporter packed parliament, will include a speeding up of the trial process.    Asked to explain how, a spokesman apparently said it would be the result of having military personnel participating on every civil judicial bench along with the abolition of appeals against first-instance verdicts.   Asked about the fears of civil libertarians that citizens may be subject to unfair security procedures, the spokesperson allegedly added that all citizens must collaborate more and 'that anyone who feared the state of emergency are definitely real suspects.'

This is an abandoned oil loading station on the banks of the Nile at Cairo.