埃及拟设国家支持公司为手工金矿工发证并释放被拘者:一名议员称军方自 6 月以来已拘 151 名埃及人与 540 名外国人

埃及计划在埃及未来管理局之下设立一家公司,为手工金矿工颁发许可,并释放因非法采矿入狱的人,这一安排是在部落领袖兼商业大亨易卜拉欣·奥尔加尼召集的一次会议之后提出的,一名议员如此表示。
代表阿斯旺的国家阵线党议员莫娜·沙克尔在一段脸书视频中说,勘探时被捕的人将被释放,但被发现涉及杀人或毒品犯罪的人不在此列。
军方表示,自 6 月打击非法采矿以来已拘留 151 名埃及人与 540 名外国人,目前尚不清楚有多少人仍在押,也不清楚外国人是否在释放范围内。
亲政府媒体报道总统塞西指示了这次会议,但尚未发布正式声明,路透社未能立即联系埃及未来管理局置评。
这一安排将把非正规勘探者纳入许可体系,此前军方把打击行动作为应对非法采矿的主要办法,同时也将使直接向总统府汇报、最初在军方之下设立的埃及未来管理局,在政府希望扩张的这一行业中发挥作用,安全是投资者面临的一大障碍,一名高管 9 月告诉路透社,非法矿工有时会暴力阻挡进入勘探特许区,军方 11 月 5 日称两名军官在行动中丧生,一个权利监测组织 10 月称至少 72 名矿工在苏丹北部边境附近的一次空袭中死亡并归咎于埃及空军,军方当时没有回应这一报告。
Egypt Plans a State-Backed Company to License Artisanal Gold Miners and Free Detainees, as a Lawmaker Notes 151 Egyptians and 540 Foreigners Detained Since June
Egypt plans to set up a company under the Future of Egypt Authority to license artisanal gold miners and free those jailed for illegal mining, after a meeting convened by tribal leader and business mogul Ibrahim al-Organi, a lawmaker said.
Mona Shaker, a National Front party lawmaker for Aswan, said in a Facebook video that people arrested while prospecting would be freed, but not anyone found to be involved in killings or drug offences.
The military has said it detained 151 Egyptians and 540 foreigners in its crackdown on illegal mining since June, and it was not clear how many remain in custody or whether foreigners would be covered.
Pro-government media reported that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi directed the meeting but no official statement has been issued, and Future of Egypt could not immediately be reached for comment.
The deal would bring informal prospectors into a licensed system after the military made the crackdown its main response to illegal mining, and would also give Future of Egypt, which reports directly to the presidency but began under the military, a role in a sector the government wants to expand, while security is a major obstacle for investors, illegal miners have at times violently blocked access to exploration concessions, an executive told Reuters in September, the military said on November 5 that two officers had been killed in the campaign, and in October a rights monitor said at least 72 miners died in an airstrike in northern Sudan near the border and blamed Egypt air force, a report the military did not address at the time.
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图片来源:图:埃及阿斯旺高坝全景(资料图),阿斯旺是涉手工金矿议员的选区所在地。Hajor,CC BY-SA 3.0,经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Aswan High Dam in Egypt (file photo); Aswan is the constituency of the lawmaker cited in this story. By Hajor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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