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Syria detains Egyptian after videos threatening Egypt's Sisi

January 15, 2025 at 4:20 pm

Egyptian PresidentAbdel Fattah Al-Sisi at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkiye on September 04, 2024 [Emin Sansar/Anadolu Agency]

Syria’s new authorities have detained an Egyptian who fought against Bashar Al-Assad’s rule over threats he made to the government in Cairo, a Syrian Interior Ministry source and an Arab security source told Reuters today.

The move could help ease concern in Cairo over the rise to power of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham, who led the overthrow of Al-Assad last month, in light of the Egyptian government’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood at home.

Ahmed Al-Mansour, has posted several videos saying Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi would meet the same fate as Al-Assad.

He also posed in front of a banner for a group calling itself the “Revolutionaries of January 25”, a reference to the uprising that toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

“Neither the tall gates nor tunnels will save you, because it’s your turn, dictator,” he said in one video.

Mansour was arrested today and is currently in a detention centre, the sources said.

Egyptian security sources said that while they did not directly request the arrest, Cairo had expressed its anger at the re-emergence of militant dissidents in Syria via intelligence contacts with third-party countries.

Egypt feels the upheaval in Syria could help such Islamist factions to regroup, the sources said.

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