Ahmed Shafiq heads to Egypt after UAE ‘deportation’

Feeble Egyptian High Minister Ahmed Shafiq is heading to Cairo after leaving the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in accordance the Emirati dispute files agency.

The memoir by WAM on Saturday came quickly after Shafiq’s attorney mentioned on Facebook that her consumer had been arrested at his dwelling within the UAE and would be deported to Egypt.

Dina Adly additionally mentioned in her post that each one traces of verbal substitute with Shafiq, who has resided within the UAE for five years after shedding the 2012 Egyptian elections to Mohamed Morsi, had been shut down since Friday.

Per WAM, Shafiq’s family stayed on the assist of within the UAE.

On Wednesday, Shafiq mentioned in an weird and wonderful video message to Al Jazeera that he had been blocked from leaving the UAE, hours after asserting plans to speed in Egypt’s presidential election subsequent year against President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi.

« I used to be stunned to perceive that I am refrained from from leaving the UAE, for causes that I create no longer realize and I am no longer willing to non-public, » he mentioned in his assertion.

« I reject any intervention in Egypt’s affairs by stopping me from collaborating in a constitutional simply and a holy mission to serve my country, » added Shafiq.

« I call on the UAE leaders to inform the lifting of any restrictions on my capability to shuttle. »

The UAE’s International Minister Anwar Gargash later spoke back in a series of tweets, asserting there used to be « no obstacle » to Shafiq’s departure from the UAE.

« (Shafiq) took refuge within the UAE and ran a ways off from Egypt after the outcomes of the 2012 presidential election. We presented him with every facility and beneficiant hospitality despite our severe reservations just a few few of his positions, » Gargash mentioned.

Shafiq used to be top minister for one month in 2011, at some level of that year’s Arab Spring uprising.

After shedding the closely contested 2012 election to Morsi, Shafiq fled to the UAE. He used to be placed on trial in absentia in Egypt and stumbled on guilty of corruption charges.

He used to be later acquitted, clearing his course for a doable return to Egypt.

On Friday, Egypt’s International Minister Sameh Shoukry mentioned he sees no excellent restrictions that will perhaps perhaps prevent Shafiq from running in subsequent year’s elections against Sisi.

« I stare no motive why he would possibly perhaps perhaps tranquil no longer speed. I state that as a layman. I do know he’s had some issues with the judiciary. I am no longer obvious whether these were resolved or no longer, » Shoukry mentioned in a gathering in Italy.

« But in theory, he’s free to symbolize himself to the electorate. As in any society, it is as much as the electorate to grasp. »

Shafiq is no longer essentially the most attention-grabbing person planning to allege Sisi within the presidential election. Khaled Ali, a famed Egyptian rights attorney, has additionally voiced his intent to contest the 2018 elections.