The Egyptian military ordered senior doctors to operate without anaesthetic on protesters injured during demonstrations against military rule, according to extracts of a leaked report published in the Guardian newspaper on Friday.
The United Arab Emirates has rejected a request from Egypt for the release of 11 of its nationals detained for suspected links to Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood, the Gulf News paper reported on Saturday.
Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi took the oath of office on Saturday to become the country’s first freely elected leader and its first head of state since Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow last year.
