هاني سمير تظاهر 300 من أقباط كندا وأمريكا مساء أمس - الخميس - أمام البوابة الرئيسية للبيت الأبيض بواشنطن بالتزامن مع لقاء الرئيس حسني مبارك ونظيره الأمريكي باراك أوباما لاستئناف المفاوضات المباشرة بين الجانبين الفلسطيني والإسرائيلي، وذلك للاحتجاج علي ما يعانيه الأقباط في مصر من مشكلات. ورفع...

8/29/2010 - Global Voices Advocacy On 1st July, 2010, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior (MOI) has reportedly established a special department to monitor Facebook activities and content in Egypt according to the administrative decision 765. Based on the Kuwaiti newspaper Aljarida, this new MOI depa...

 CAIRO Aug 31 2010 (Reuters) - An Egyptian man imprisoned last year for advocating Shi'a Islam and released last week under a court order was detained again a few days later, a human rights group said on Tuesday. Mohamed Farouk was among 11 minority Shi'ites arrested in April and May 2009 for ...

 Translated for CAA from the original article by Sara Alam published 8/27/2010 Quranist leader Dr. Ahmed Sobhy Mansour expressed fear that the authorities will again prevent his half brother Abdel Latif Said from accompanying Mansour's mother to the United States for treatment. According to hi...

U.S. News&Report, 8/20/2010  Amr Hamzawy is research director and senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. BEIRUT--Throughout most of the Arab world, poverty, unemployment, and illiteracy rates are on the rise while the quality of education, healthcare, and social sa...

 GulfNews, 8/27/2010 Not only is human rights on the top of agendas across the world, it is becoming the focal point of most Egyptians' conversations, from intellectual circles and official think-tanks to people on the street, making it the topic of the hour in the Arab world's most populous c...

 لجمعة، 27 أغسطس 2010 - 15:14 زعيم القرآنيين أحمد صبحى منصور كتبت سارة علام عبر الدكتور "أحمد صبحى منصور" زعيم القرآنيين عن مخاوفه من منع السلطات لأخيه غير الشقيق "عبد اللطيف سعيد" من السفر للولايات المتحدة لعلاج والدة "منصور" والتى لا تستطيع السفر لأى مكان دو...

 By Sarah Carr / Daily News Egypt August 16, 2010 CAIRO: A group of six human rights organizations has condemned the imprisonment and treatment of a political activist arrested in May during a demonstration. Ahmed Abou Douma was convicted on May 22, 2010 of assaulting police officers and ...

 AFP, 8/11/2010 - CAIRO — An Egyptian whose abuse by police led to two officers being jailed will be tried over a street brawl under a controversial law the government said would be limited to drugs and terrorism, a judicial source said on Wednesday. The case, which has brought ch...

 AHRNI - Cairo August 2nd, 2010 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information expressed today deep resentment of arresting 15 citizens in Alexandria for distributing and posting publications calling citizens for signing political reform demands. The citizens were arrested for allegation...

 (AP) – 8/6/2010 CAIRO — An Egyptian woman has given an unusual televised account to a private station accusing police officers of raping and robbing her in a rural part of the country. The allegations feed into a growing debate in Egypt about police abuse, which human rights ...

LA Times, 8/5/2010 Egyptian American human-rights activist and democracy campaigner Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who spent three years in self-imposed exile following intense pressure from the Egyptian government, has returned to Cairo. Ibrahim, a vocal critic of President Hosni Mubarak in recent years, ha...

 By Kristen Chick, CSM Contributor / July 27, 2010 Two policemen stood trial in Alexandria today in the case of an Egyptian businessman whose death ignited protests across Egypt against the brutality and torture that pervades the police and security forces here. Khalid Said died in Alexandr...

McClatchy Newspapers, 7/21/10 CAIRO -- On any given day in Egypt, a U.S. ally with a much-criticized human rights record, citizens who cross the nation's security forces may be subject to brutal violence, according to a leading human rights organization here. Complaints arrive daily: An 18-year-...

LA Times, 7/14/10 In an attempt to ease tensions between the government and the majority of residents in the Sinai Peninsula, the Ministry of Interior released scores of detained Bedouins on Tuesday, including prominent activist Mosaad Abu Fajr, according to security sources in the city of Al Arish...

Almasry Alyoum, 7/13/10 - Among widespread and continuing human rights abuses throughout Egypt in 2009, 12 people were tortured to death by police, according to the annual report of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR). “We documented 63 cases of torture in detention in the same ...

By Daily News Egypt - July 5, 2010 CAIRO: The Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Violence and Torture reported Sunday that an 18-year-old man was tortured by police officers who threw him out of a third-floor window. The Nadeem Center says that Mohamed Salah Mahmoud Ghareeb...

 LA Times, 7/7/2010 In a highly unusual move to contain public anger over the alleged torture death of a 28-year-old blogger last month, President Hosni Mubarak's son, Gamal, said that justice will be served against police officers charged in the case. Gamal Mubarak, a top member of the rulin...

Daily News Egypt -  July 7, 2010 CAIRO: Witnesses to the death of Khaled Saeid are being intimidated by the police, alleged a lawyer and members of Saeid’s family. Mohamed Abdel-Aziz, a lawyer with the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Violence says that the intim...

 CAIRO June 30 2010 (Reuters) - Egypt's authorities have detained two policemen for investigation on charges of beating an activist, who rights groups said died due to police brutality, a judicial source said on Wednesday. The death of Khaled Said, 28, on June 6 has sparked public protests and...

6/30/2010, AFP  CAIRO - EGYPT'S foreign ministry summoned European Union ambassadors on Wednesday in protest at their call for an impartial inquiry into allegations that police brutally beat a man to death. The ambassadors were told that their call in a joint statement 'represented - regardle...

 AFP, 6/30/10 CAIRO — Human Rights Watch has criticised Egyptian police for beating and arresting protesters at several peaceful rallies this month, saying the treatment amounted to "extrajudicial punishment." "Egyptian authorities should stop beating and arbitrarily arre...

 By Sarah Carr / Daily News Egypt June 30, 2010 CAIRO: The Egyptian government must release hundreds of detainees being held in administrative detention, in compliance with recent amendments to THE emergency law, a coalition of 12 rights groups said on Tuesday. "The Egyptian governme...

Almasry Alyoum, 6/28/10 Egypt has ranked last of all the Arab states on the International Justice Project (IJP)'s latest rule-of-law index. Qatar ranked first on the index, followed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to the IJC's newly-released 2010 report, Egypt received only 0.31 point...

 AP, 7/1/10 RAFAH, Egypt — Bedouin leaders in northern Sinai demanded Thursday that Egyptian authorities stop repression of the nomadic tribes and release tribesmen detained for opposing the government. This followed a government demand to the leaders to turn over suspects. Clashes be...

Almasry Alyoum, 6/25/10 Maha Ibrahim didn’t care who heard her and didn’t care if her name was published. “We’re all afraid for our children. And we should be afraid because they are in danger,” shouted the young Alexandria homemaker who wears the niqab (full face vei...

Voice of America, 6/28/10 The United Nations' Development Program says Egypt has kept its young people from taking part in the political process, alienating a large swathe of the population. The UNDP's annual report on Egypt comes as the government faces growing protests over the death of a young ...

By Mona Salem (AFP) – 6/25/10 ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — Mohamed ElBaradei, the ex-atomic watchdog chief turned Egyptian dissident, led thousands of protesters in the northern city of Alexandria on Friday demanding an end to police brutality. ElBaradei emerged from the Muslim weekly prayers...

 By Kristen Chick, CSM Correspondent / June 24, 2010 Cairo - Egypt’s general prosecutor said Wednesday that the results of a second autopsy uphold the conclusion that a young Egyptian businessman whose death has incited anger and protests died from choking on a bag of drugs &nd...

 By REEM ABDELLATIF (AP) – 6/24/10 CAIRO — A leading international human rights group on Thursday cast doubt on an Egyptian report about the death of an alleged victim of police brutality and urged authorities to further investigate the incident. The New York-based Human Rights ...

Almasry Alyoum, 6/15/10 The US State Department released Monday its 10th annual Trafficking in Persons Report. The report puts Egypt in the second of three categories of countries in terms of efforts made to combat human trafficking. Egypt is a source, transit, and destination country for women an...

The National, 6/13/10 CAIRO // More than 100 people gathered near Egypt’s ministry of interior building yesterday afternoon to protest at the alleged murder of a 28-year-old man last week at the hands of the police. A phalanx of hundreds of police officers dressed in riot gear formed a circl...

 CAIRO (Reuters) 6/16/10 - Egypt's attorney general has ordered a new autopsy on the body of a 28-year-old activist that rights groups said was beaten to death for exposing police corruption, state newspaper Al-Ahram said on Wednesday. Police have denied any role in the death of Khaled Mohamme...

 By Christophe de Roquefeuil (AFP) – 6/17/10 CAIRO — Thirteen-year-old Rasha thought she was leaving her home in rural Egypt to help out an elderly aunt in the city for the summer and would return in time for the new school year. "This summer never ended, and I understood...

 By PAUL SCHEMM (AP) – 6/14/10  CAIRO — Egyptian security forces hit protesters and knocked some to the ground before rounding dozens up at a demonstration Sunday against a police beating that killed a young man a week ago. The protesters were venting Egyptian anger over ...

Almasry Ayoum, 6/11/2010 Khaled Said, a 28-year-old Alexandrian man was beaten up to death by two policemen as he refused to give them money, a human rights group said on 10 June. Witnesses called el-Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Torture and recounted to its lawyers the in...

 6/11/10, AP CAIRO — Egyptian police beat a young businessman to death on an Alexandria street after he posted a video on the Internet of officers sharing the spoils from a drug bust among themselves, his family said Friday. The beating earlier this week — which police deny took...

(AP) – 5/24/10 CAIRO — An Egyptian court has convicted the Cairo deputy governor in the 2008 rock slide that killed 119 people on the outskirts of the city and sentenced him to five years in prison. The state MENA news agency says the court found Mahmoud Yassin and seven lesser off...

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), For the Congressional Record - Monday, May 24, 2010 Mr. President, I would like to raise the important issue of human rights and democratic reform in our partnership with Egypt. I am very concerned by Egypt’s recent extension its emergency law – whi...

Almasry Alyoum, 5/24/10 Dozens of workers from the Amonsito textiles company, which closed down when its owner fled Egypt, marched yesterday from the People's Assembly to Banque Misr's headquarters to demand compensation after failure to reach a satisfactory agreement with the People's Assembly Man...

CAIRO, AlArabiya, 5/18/2010 A court in Egypt is to rule next month on whether Egyptian men married to Israeli women are to be stripped of their citizenship, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday. "The High Administrative Court will issue its verdict in June," the source said, in a case t...

5/13/10 - The Working Group on Egypt, The Hill Dear Madame Secretary, Democracy in Egypt has suffered another blow. This week, the Egyptian government extended its state of emergency for an additional two years despite President Mubarak’s promises since 2005 to end it and replace it with a m...

Aljazeera, 5/12/10 The Egyptian parliament has voted to extend the state of emergency, which restricts constitutional protections and grants police extensive powers, for a further two years. "The People's Assembly has approved by a 308-member majority the presidential decree to extend the sta...

By Alaa Shahine, May 11 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Egypt’s government plans to ease press censorship for two years and end property confiscation by the state, Al Ahram newspaper reported, without saying how it obtained the information. Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif will present the proposals to pa...

Associated Press, 5/3/10 CAIRO - Egyptian riot police have beat anti-government protesters demanding an end to the country's 30-year emergency law that restricts civil freedoms. The scuffle erupted after several hundred riot police pushed back about 150 protesters who had gathered in downtow...

Almasry Alyoum, 5/6/10 State prosecutors have referred Ahmed Abu Doma, member of the 6 April opposition movement, to trial on charges of assaulting two police officers during a 3 May demonstration. Abu Doma, who strenuously denies the charges, has also been charged with damaging public property. ...

New York Times, 4/28/10 CAIRO — Day after day, hundreds of workers from all over Egypt have staged demonstrations and sit-ins outside Parliament, turning sidewalks in the heart of the capital into makeshift camps and confounding government efforts to bring an end to the protests. Nearly ...

 النائب عبد الرحيم الغول رئيس لجنة الزراعة بمجلس الشعب كتبت ولاء نعمة الله شهدت أسوار مجلس الشعب مفارقة غريبة اليوم ففى الوقت الذى تضامن فيه نواب كتلة الإخوان المسلمين مع المتظاهرين من شباب حركة 6 أبريل، اشتبك النائب عبد الرحيم الغول رئيس لجنة الزراعة مع المتظاهرين وتوجه لهم قائلاً "كف...

By Marwa Awad, 4/20/10 - CAIRO (Reuters) - Protesters gathered in central Cairo on Tuesday, condemning calls by politicians and officials loyal to President Hosni Mubarak for security forces to open fire on pro-democracy demonstrations. About 70 people joined the protest, the third in two week...

AlMasry Alyoum, 4/18/10 "I don't know why the Interior Ministry is so lenient with protesters," said ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) representative Nash'at el-Qassas at a meeting of parliament's national security and human rights committees on Sunday. "Instead of using water h...