Mohamed Youssef Ibrahim (; born 23 January 1947) is a former

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in the

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. Retired from the ministry in 2007, Ibrahim was appointed on 7 December 2011 by Kamal Ganzouri, then prime minister of Egypt. Ibrahim was replaced by his aide

Ahmed Gamal El Din Ahmed Gamal El Din (born 11 November 1952) is a retired police general and Egypt's former minister of interior. He served in the Qandil cabinet. Early life and education El Din was born on 11 November 1952 in Gharbiya Province, Egypt. Abdel Ah ...

in an August 2012 cabinet reshuffle by

Mohamed Morsi Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa Al-AyyatThe spellings of his first and last names vary. survey of 14 news organizations plus Wikipedia in July 2012 Sohag Sohag (, , ), also spelled as Suhag or Suhaj, is a city on the west bank of the Nile in Egypt. It has been the capital of Sohag Governorate since 1960, before which the capital was Girga and the name of the governorate was Girga Governorate. I ...

, Egypt, on 23 January 1947. He was conscripted into the

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in 1965 at the age of 18 and served in an Infantry Mortar regiment and participated in the 1967 War. He later joined the Egyptian Police College and graduated in 1968 and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the National Police.

Career

After graduating, Ibrahim joined Cairo Police Directorate, then worked in the public security sector as a precinct officer. In the 1970s, he was posted in the State Security. He served as director of the Security Directorates of

Sohag Sohag (, , ), also spelled as Suhag or Suhaj, is a city on the west bank of the Nile in Egypt. It has been the capital of Sohag Governorate since 1960, before which the capital was Girga and the name of the governorate was Girga Governorate. I ...

and El Minya in the 1990s. In 2001, Ibrahim became assistant minister of interior for Central Upper Egypt. In 2002, he was appointed assistant minister of interior for prisons department. In 2003 he was appointed assistant minister of interior and the director general of Giza police directorate. In 2006, Ibrahim became first assistant minister of interior for the economic security sector and he retired in 2007.

Controversy

During his tenure in Upper Egypt from 1989 to 1999, there were several terrorist attacks by Islamic fundamentalists. In December 2005, an incident known as the "Mostafa Mahmoud massacre" occurred in Cairo under his command, earning him serious criticism for the violence used against Sudanese refugees.

References

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