Events in the year 2020 in Egypt.
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Ongoing – 2020 Middle East storms; COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt
July
- 6 July
- 10 July
- An Egyptian spy is uncovered in a German Press Office. He was looking for information on Egyptian opposition figures in Germany.[40]
- The government bans kite-flying and seizes 369 kites in Cairo and 99 in Alexandria, citing both safety and national security concerns.[41]
- 13 July – In response to the complaints of at least 100 women of sexual assault, harassment, blackmail, and rape, activists set up @assaultpolice on Instagram to collect allegations. Many of the anonymous accounts come from students at The American University in Cairo and the American International School, one of the country's most expensive private high schools.[42]
August
- 3 August – International Co-operation Minister Rania Al-Mashat invites billionaire Elon Musk to visit the country after he had tweeted, "Aliens built the pyramids obv." Archaeologist Zahi Hawass calls the tweet a "complete hallucination" and responds that the "pyramids [were] built by Egyptians."[43]
September
- 7 September – Lawyers for the family of former President Mohamed Morsi said they obtained intelligence proving his youngest son, Abdullah, 25, was poisoned. In 2019, officials had claimed he had died of a heart attack.[44]
December
- December 8 – Human rights activists in Paris protest President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's state visit to France.[50]
- December 29 – Ahmed Bassam Zaki, a former student at the American University in Cairo, is convicted of blackmail and sexual harassment of two women. Other charges of assault of girls as young as 14 will be heard on January 9, 2021.[51]
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See also: List of events affected by the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic