Ibrahim remains Egypt interior minister

Egypt Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim has kept his post in the new government, triggering strong opposition to his reappointment, Press TV reports.

On Saturday, Egypt swore in the new cabinet, in which Ibrahim remains minister of interior.

The reappointment of Ibrahim has prompted criticism from opponents who blame him for the deteriorating security situation in Egypt.

Opponents to Ibrahim say the Interior Ministry has failed to confront terrorism under his administration.

Ibrahim has been also criticized for an increase in the number of police torture cases in the country.

Shahenda Maklad, member of Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights, has said that Ibrahim and the Interior Ministry are to blame for “the police officers who die every day.”

Last month, 16 human rights organizations issued statements demanding investigations into “increasing and shocking allegations of torture and sexual assaults against those detained at police stations since 25 January.”

“The conditions in Egypt’s prisons are against all human rights and the bullying of the security apparatus must come to an end,” said one opponent, whose name was not mentioned in the report.

The Egyptian Interior Ministry, however, has denied the accusations.

Four opposition groups including the Constitution Party and the Egyptian Social Democratic Party have issued a statement calling for the resignation of Ibrahim.

The opposition parties say the Interior Ministry has failed to secure the volatile situation in the Sinai Peninsula amid a growing number of deadly attacks in the region.

Egypt has been experiencing unrelenting violence since the country’s first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was ousted on July 3, 2013. Hundreds have lost their lives in the violence.