28 February 2012 Last updated at 15:59 ET The legislative elections were the first since the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak Egypt's upper house of parliament has chosen an Islamist as its speaker, consolidating the Muslim Brotherhood's control of the country's legislature.
A heavily-bandaged Anwar Al-Bulkimy claimed he was beaten and robbed but his doctor revealed he was just recovering from plastic surgery When an Islamist MP reported that he had been badly beaten by masked gunmen who left him unconscious and robbed him of $16,000 (£10,000), the news was seen as worrying proof that post-revolutionary Egypt was falling into lawlessness.