Alstom commissions signalling system on major Egypt rail line
CAIRO, February 16, 2021 Alstom, a global leader in rail transport and sustainable mobility, said it has successfully installed and commissioned its SIL 4 signalling Electronic Interlocking System (IXL solution-SmartLock 400 GP) - including a support system and Scada that supervises and controls different subsystems, based on Alstom Iconis, TLC system and 11 kv power supply sub-station - for the Deirut section of the Beni Suef Assuyt railway line in Egypt. Deirut is one of the longest sectors; it’s connected with Abu Qurqas, El Roda and Mallawi stations which are already in service given over 50 km of line which is fully operative with Alstom’s system including contraflow function.
The Horror: No Justice For Coptic Grandmother Assaulted In Egypt “Stripping an old woman in the street is not a crime because she is a woman and a Christian.” Fri Jan 8, 2021 A Coptic grandmother in the village of Al-Karm, in the Minya governorate, in Upper Egypt, was stripped naked, and her house burned down, by three Muslims, in 2016. It was certainly an atrocity. And the perpetrators are known; they denied nothing; they were proud of what they had done, teaching the odious Copts a lesson. She and her lawyers have been fighting for justice ever since. But for Copts in Egypt, there is no justice. The Egyptian state, in the form of its judiciary, ultimately acquitted the three Muslims, even though their guilt was never in doubt. The preliminary Jihad Watch report on this appalling case is here, and here is a news report on the fallout from the case: “Coptic Christians in Egypt say they can’t get justice,” Media Line, December 24, 2020:
Coptic Christians in Egypt Say They Can’t Get Justice Mina Nader 12/23/2020
An Egyptian court has acquitted three Muslim men accused of assaulting a Coptic Christian grandmother, in a case that has highlighted the sectarian tensions in the country.
Egypt’s Christian community is frustrated and angry after an Egyptian court acquitted three Muslim men in an assault on an elderly grandmother, in a case illustrating the sectarian tensions in the country that has dragged on for several years.
The court in Minya-Upper Egypt handed down its decision last week in the 2016 assault, which included the stripping naked of then-70-year-old Suad Thabet and the burning down of her home, and four other homes, as well as the injury of three other Copts.