Government urged to ‘lay down the law’ over Ibrahim Halawa

The Government has been urged to send a strong signal to Egyptian authorities that “patience has run out” in the case of an Irishman jailed four years ago for taking part in protests in Cairo, writes Juno McEnroe and Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

A verdict had been expected yesterday in the case of Ibrahim Halawa in a mass trial of those involved in Muslim Brotherhood protests in August 2013, following the removal of president Mohamed Morsi.