Deportation of foreigners continues .. Mauritanian and Dutch leave Egypt because of the demonstrations

Egyptian authorities today released and deported two Mauritanian and Dutch nationals who were arrested during the September 20 demonstrations demanding the resignation of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in response to a call by Egyptian artist and businessman Mohamed Ali on social media.

The release comes as Egyptian authorities consider "foreign suspects" less than a day after Cairo handed over to Khartoum Sudanese student Walid Abdel Rahman, who was arrested and questioned for participating in anti-Sisi protests.

On Thursday, Jordanian nationals Abdel Rahman Hussein al-Rawajbeh and Thaer Matar were also released on Thursday for the same reason, and the Egyptian media described them as "terrorists".

Mauritanian student Ahmed Ould Lamami Masca was flown on Friday to Morocco after the Egyptian prosecutor ordered his release and deportation, officials at Cairo International Airport said on condition of anonymity.

Mauritanian media reported earlier that Ould Lamami came to Egypt last month to study at Al-Azhar University. He was taken by the Egyptian authorities from an apartment he shared with other Mauritanians and a Turkish citizen.

Dutch Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Willemann Feldman told the agency that Peter Bass Habs, a 43-year-old Dutch national, was flown to the Netherlands on Friday after his release on Thursday.

"Peter Bass Habs has been released on condition that he leaves the country immediately," Feldman said. "The embassy facilitated this and left Egypt and is now in the Netherlands."

Shortly after his arrest, Habs appeared in a video broadcast by an Egyptian satellite channel confirming that he was arrested in Cairo after he fired a drone with a camera off the roof of his hotel, in violation of Egyptian law.

It is noteworthy that the Egyptian Public Prosecution issued a statement on Thursday, saying it had released a number of "foreign defendants" arrested during the events of September 20, at the request of their embassies and vowed to deport them.