Parliament to send delegation to UK following Student’s death

CAIRO – 15 March 2018: Alaa Abed, head of the Egyptian Parliament's Human Rights Committee, said in a statement Thursday that the Parliament will send a delegation to Britain to follow up investigations of Mariam Moustafa’s case, the Egyptian Student who died on Wednesday after she was brutally attacked by 10 English girls.

“The Egyptian government will closely follow the updates of the ongoing investigation, in order to capture the perpetrators of the horrific crime,” added Abed in the statement released on Thursday.

Emad Abu Hussein, the victim’s lawyer, said that the assault turned into a murder after Moustafa’s death, despite the hospital’s report which does not name Moustafa as a victim of an assault. Abu Hussein revealed that the dead Student was released from the hospital 25 minutes after the assault although she was suffering from an internal bleeding.

In late February, Moustafa, an 18-year-old engineering student based in Nottingham, U.K., was brutally beaten by 10 British women of African descent. The incident stirred condemnation of both the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and the British Embassy in Cairo.

On March 3, Egypt’s Attorney General Nabil Sadek ordered a probe to be launched into the assault. He ordered the International Cooperation Administration of the Public Prosecution to send a letter to the British authorities, asking to be updated on U.K. inquires about the attack and Moustafa’s medical report.