Back مباحث أمن الدولة Arabic State Security Investigations Service German Mabahith Amn al-Dawla al-'Ulya French שירות ביטחון המדינה של מצרים HE Serviço de Investigação de Segurança do Estado Portuguese
| مباحث أمن الدولة | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1913 1954 |
| Dissolved | 2011 |
| Superseding agency | |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Egypt |
| Headquarters | Cairo, Egypt |
| Agency executive |
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| Parent agency | Ministry of Interior |
The State Security Investigations Service (Egyptian Arabic: مباحث أمن الدولة Mabahith Amn El Dawla) was the highest national internal security authority in Egypt. Estimated to employ 100,000 personnel, the SSI was the main security and intelligence apparatus of Egypt's Ministry of Interior. The SSIS focused on monitoring underground networks of radical Islamists and probably planted agents in those organizations[1] and had the role of controlling opposition groups, both armed groups and those engaged in peaceful opposition to the government.[2][3] It has been described as "detested"[4] and "widely hated".[5]
Following the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the head of the SSI was arrested under suspicion of ordering the killings of demonstrators. On March 15, 2011, the Ministry of the Interior announced the dissolution of the agency. The service was replaced by (or renamed) the Egyptian Homeland Security after the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.[4]
- ^ "Egypt - Intelligence".
- ^ Magnarella 1999, p. 108
- ^ Sifton 2007, p. 9
- ^ a b WALSH, DECLAN (15 August 2017). "Why Was an Italian Graduate Student Tortured and Murdered in Egypt?". New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
- ^ El Deeb, Sarah (6 January 2014). "Hotline marks return of Egypt's security agency". Associated Press.
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