Quelle: ahramonline
Three parliamentary committees approved in an urgent meeting on Tuesday night legislation aimed at stemming the tide of illegal migration.
The meeting, which comes a few days after a migrant boat capsized off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, was headed by chairman of the Legislative and Constitutional Affairs Committee Bahaaeddin Abu Shoqa. It also included members of the human rights and budget committees.
The meeting also came after President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi held an urgent national security meeting on Saturday to discuss the possibility of issuing a unified law aimed at toughening penalties for those involved in human trafficking and illegal migration operations.
On 21 September, the migrant boat, which was carrying between 450 and 500 migrants, sunk as it sailed for Italy from Egypt’s Mediterranean port city of Rosetta.
The death toll from the accident reached 195 on Tuesday.
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