Egyptian politicians and dissidents have expressed their opposition to a planned visit by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Cairo on suspicion of involvement in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The opposition civil democratic movement, which includes nine parties and prominent political figures, expressed deep dissatisfaction with the visit of the Saudi crown prince to Cairo.
"The Saudi crown prince is one of the architects of the crime of seizing the islands of Tiran and Sanfair," the movement said in a statement.
The movement considered Ben Salman's visit to Cairo "an attempt to beautify his distorted image as a result of Khashoggi's crime, which the evidence indicates he personally ordered to carry out."
In the context, dozens of Egyptian journalists signed a statement rejecting the visit of Mohammed bin Salman Cairo.
The journalists said in the statement that they reject the visit for humanitarian, professional, union and national reasons, in addition to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Yemen war and the Saudi authorities' relationship with Israel. "Mohammed bin Salman's place is the dock in an international court," they said.
The journalists criticized the "silence of the Egyptian Journalists Union on the visit of the first accused in the murder of a journalist colleague, and attempts to cover them visit Egypt," as they put it.
The calls to reject the visit to Egypt come two days after the Tunisian Journalists Syndicate rejected Ben Salman's visit.
Tunisian parliamentarian Emad Daimi also called for action against the upcoming visit of the Saudi crown prince. During a speech in parliament, Daimi put up a banner reading "No fun and no luck with the murderer Ben Salman in Tunisia".
In Algeria, the head of the Algerian Peace Society Movement, Abdel-Razzaq Maqri, stressed that the Saudi Crown Prince wants through his visit a number of Arab countries, including Algeria, to cover up the campaign of arrests that affected his opponents and cover the killing of Khashoggi.
He added that Mohammed bin Salman hopes to exploit the economic situation in Algeria and make it a "state rice," as he put it.
Bin Salman began his first foreign tour since Khashoggi's death Thursday, without giving details of the countries he would visit, but he began in the UAE before arriving on Sunday in Bahrain.