# Cairo · 17 May 2015

> Photos and videos from Cairo on 17 May 2015.

## Facts

- **What:** Cairo · 17 May 2015 (News story)
- **Where:** [Cairo](https://apa.atyaf.co/location/cairo), [Sinai](https://apa.atyaf.co/location/sinai)
- **When:** 2015-05-17
- **Media:** 30 photos, 0 videos, 0 rushes
- **Credit:** © apaimages / Amr Sayed
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- **Canonical URL:** https://apa.atyaf.co/story/cairo-2015-05-17
- **Last updated:** 2026-10-19T11:54:37+00:00
- **Arabic version:** https://apa.atyaf.co/ar/story/cairo-2015-05-17

## Media in this story

- [Judges attend the trial of Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015271) — APA-PH-2015-015271 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Judges attend the trial of Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, at a court in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Photo by Amr Sayed
- [Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015272) — APA-PH-2015-015272 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial, at a court in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Photo by Amr Sayed
- [Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015273) — APA-PH-2015-015273 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial, at a court in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Photo by Amr Sayed
- [Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015274) — APA-PH-2015-015274 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial, at a court in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Photo by Amr Sayed
- [Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015275) — APA-PH-2015-015275 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial, at a court in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Photo by Amr Sayed
- [Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015276) — APA-PH-2015-015276 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial, at a court in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Photo by Amr Sayed
- [Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015277) — APA-PH-2015-015277 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial, at a court in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Photo by Amr Sayed
- [Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015278) — APA-PH-2015-015278 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial, at a court in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Photo by Amr Sayed
- [Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015279) — APA-PH-2015-015279 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial, at a court in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Photo by Amr Sayed
- [Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015280) — APA-PH-2015-015280 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, sits in the defendants cage during his trial, at a court in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Photo by Amr Sayed
- [Judges attend the trial of Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015281) — APA-PH-2015-015281 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Judges attend the trial of Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, at a court in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Photo by Amr Sayed
- [Judges attend the trial of Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015282) — APA-PH-2015-015282 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Judges attend the trial of Egyptian radical Islamist Mohammed al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, at a court in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Photo by Amr Sayed
- [Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015358) — APA-PH-2015-015358 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Egypt executed six men Sunday convicted of belonging to the Sinai-based militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis and convicted by a military court over a gunfight last year at a suspected bomb factory, as explosives planted outside of courthouses wounded two people following the death sentence given...
- [Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015359) — APA-PH-2015-015359 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Egypt executed six men Sunday convicted of belonging to the Sinai-based militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis and convicted by a military court over a gunfight last year at a suspected bomb factory, as explosives planted outside of courthouses wounded two people following the death sentence given...
- [A relatives of an executed member of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, holds his T-shirt as she mourns outside a morgue](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015360) — APA-PH-2015-015360 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  A relatives of an executed member of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, holds his T-shirt as she mourns outside a morgue, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Egypt executed six men Sunday convicted of belonging to the Sinai-based militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis and convicted by a military court over a gunfight last year at a suspected bomb factory, as explosives planted outside of courthouses wounded two people foll...
- [Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015361) — APA-PH-2015-015361 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Egypt executed six men Sunday convicted of belonging to the Sinai-based militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis and convicted by a military court over a gunfight last year at a suspected bomb factory, as explosives planted outside of courthouses wounded two people following the death sentence given...
- [Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015362) — APA-PH-2015-015362 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Egypt executed six men Sunday convicted of belonging to the Sinai-based militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis and convicted by a military court over a gunfight last year at a suspected bomb factory, as explosives planted outside of courthouses wounded two people following the death sentence given...
- [Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015363) — APA-PH-2015-015363 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Egypt executed six men Sunday convicted of belonging to the Sinai-based militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis and convicted by a military court over a gunfight last year at a suspected bomb factory, as explosives planted outside of courthouses wounded two people following the death sentence given...
- [Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015364) — APA-PH-2015-015364 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Egypt executed six men Sunday convicted of belonging to the Sinai-based militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis and convicted by a military court over a gunfight last year at a suspected bomb factory, as explosives planted outside of courthouses wounded two people following the death sentence given...
- [Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015365) — APA-PH-2015-015365 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Relatives of executed members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, mourn outside a morgue, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Egypt executed six men Sunday convicted of belonging to the Sinai-based militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis and convicted by a military court over a gunfight last year at a suspected bomb factory, as explosives planted outside of courthouses wounded two people following the death sentence given...
- [Relatives carry the coffin of an executed member of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis outside a morgue](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015367) — APA-PH-2015-015367 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Relatives carry the coffin of an executed member of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, outside a morgue in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Egypt executed six men Sunday convicted of belonging to the Sinai-based militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis and convicted by a military court over a gunfight last year at a suspected bomb factory, as explosives planted outside of courthouses wounded two people following the death se...
- [Relatives carry the coffin of an executed member of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis outside a morgue](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015368) — APA-PH-2015-015368 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Relatives carry the coffin of an executed member of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, outside a morgue in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Egypt executed six men Sunday convicted of belonging to the Sinai-based militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis and convicted by a military court over a gunfight last year at a suspected bomb factory, as explosives planted outside of courthouses wounded two people following the death se...
- [Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015369) — APA-PH-2015-015369 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Last month, the Egyptian cabinet made a decision to pull down the headquarters of the currently-dismantled National Democratic Party (NDP), the ruling party of former President Hosni Mubarak who was ousted in February 2011 following January 25 popular uprising, and assigned a military engineerin...
- [Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015370) — APA-PH-2015-015370 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Last month, the Egyptian cabinet made a decision to pull down the headquarters of the currently-dismantled National Democratic Party (NDP), the ruling party of former President Hosni Mubarak who was ousted in February 2011 following January 25 popular uprising, and assigned a military engineerin...
- [Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015371) — APA-PH-2015-015371 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Last month, the Egyptian cabinet made a decision to pull down the headquarters of the currently-dismantled National Democratic Party (NDP), the ruling party of former President Hosni Mubarak who was ousted in February 2011 following January 25 popular uprising, and assigned a military engineerin...
- [Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015372) — APA-PH-2015-015372 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Last month, the Egyptian cabinet made a decision to pull down the headquarters of the currently-dismantled National Democratic Party (NDP), the ruling party of former President Hosni Mubarak who was ousted in February 2011 following January 25 popular uprising, and assigned a military engineerin...
- [Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015375) — APA-PH-2015-015375 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Last month, the Egyptian cabinet made a decision to pull down the headquarters of the currently-dismantled National Democratic Party (NDP), the ruling party of former President Hosni Mubarak who was ousted in February 2011 following January 25 popular uprising, and assigned a military engineerin...
- [Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015376) — APA-PH-2015-015376 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Last month, the Egyptian cabinet made a decision to pull down the headquarters of the currently-dismantled National Democratic Party (NDP), the ruling party of former President Hosni Mubarak who was ousted in February 2011 following January 25 popular uprising, and assigned a military engineerin...
- [Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015377) — APA-PH-2015-015377 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Last month, the Egyptian cabinet made a decision to pull down the headquarters of the currently-dismantled National Democratic Party (NDP), the ruling party of former President Hosni Mubarak who was ousted in February 2011 following January 25 popular uprising, and assigned a military engineerin...
- [Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building](https://apa.atyaf.co/photo/APA-PH-2015-015378) — APA-PH-2015-015378 · photo · 2015-05-17 · Cairo, Egypt · © APA Images / Amr Sayed
  Egyptian workers use a crane to pull down National Democratic Party building, in Cairo on May 17, 2015. Last month, the Egyptian cabinet made a decision to pull down the headquarters of the currently-dismantled National Democratic Party (NDP), the ruling party of former President Hosni Mubarak who was ousted in February 2011 following January 25 popular uprising, and assigned a military engineerin...
