RD magazine, 8/9/2010 “There is no need for a novel to create even more tension and hatred against us,” said Maria Boutros, a 38-year-old Egyptian housewife and mother of four. The 'us' she's referring to is Egyptian Christians, and the novel she’s referring to is Yussif Zeidan&r...

 ANHRI, 7/22/10 Misdemeanor appeals court of Qasr ElNil ruled for the imprisonment of Egyptian blogger Ahmed Doma, 21 years, for three months after being accused of assaulting police officers during a demonstration , on May 3rd, 2010. The demonstration was organized by some independent and ...

(AP) – 6/6/2010 CAIRO — An American freelance journalist says he has been denied entry to Egypt. James Buck says that Egyptian authorities briefly detained him at Cairo airport when he arrived Friday from Dubai. He says officials refused to let him into the country and put on a ret...

LA Times, 6/4/10 - Reporting from Cairo — In the sweltering heart of a poor country, where desperate men board smuggling boats heading for uncertain lives across the sea, a Christian girl and her forbidden Muslim boyfriend test the bonds of love and the bounds of tolerance. Getting such a sto...

By Laura Kasinof, Global Post Published: March 29, 2010 06:47 ET CAIRO, Egypt — In Egypt, where the government keeps a close eye on the media and most other forms of expression — an alternative has emerged: fake news. Similar in style to Western satirical newspapers and websites, su...

 April 4, 2010 | 9:35 am - LA Times An Egyptian whose publishing house distributed a book on the role possible presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei might have in the nation's political future was arrested over the weekend, human rights activists and security sources confirmed. State se...

BBC 3/12/10 A human rights organisation in Egypt has accused the interior ministry of manipulating the legal system to target a blogger who exposed police brutality. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said Wael Abbas had been jailed for six months in a case that had already bee...

(AFP) – 3/2/10 CAIRO — A military court adjourned until the weekend the trial of an Egyptian student who wrote an Internet blog about alleged favouritism in a military academy, a lawyer said Tuesday. The trial of 20-year-old Ahmed Mustafa, an engineering student, has attracted crit...

القبض على المدون أحمد مصطفى قامت النيابة العسكرية أمس الخميس 25 فبراير 2010 بالقبض على المدون أحمد مصطفى ، عضو حركة 6 أبريل بكفر الشيخ أحمد مصطفى ، 20 سنة ، مدون و طالب جامعى ، فضح على مدونتة بعض التجاوزات اللى بتحصل جوا الجيش ، فتم أستدعاؤة فى المخابرات من حوالى شهر ، و تم تهديدة ، و أمروة أنة ...

New24, 2/5/10 Cairo - Egyptian security forces have seized a book that apparently criticises the Libyan regime, and have arrested its publisher, media reports said on Friday. The book, The Leader Is Cutting his Hair, was seized on Monday during the Cairo Book Fair during a raid by state security t...

AlMasry Alyoum, 1/8/10 Three common news items were spotlighted in local newspapers on Friday specifically: the funeral of an Egyptian border guard said to be fired upon from within Gaza, the aftermath of lethal drive-by shooting outside a church in Naga Hamadi, and to a lesser extent governmental ...

كتب ـ أمير الصراف ـ وأشرف شنتير‮:‬ -الوفد تصاعدت أمس أحداث العنف في‮ ‬مدينة نجع حمادي،‮ ‬عقب المذبحة البشعة التي‮ ‬شهدتها ليلة عيد الميلاد،‮ ‬وراح ضحيتها‮ ‬6‮ ‬أقباط وجندي‮ ‬حراسة مسلم،‮ ‬وأص...

 12/22/09 CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court confirmed the four-year jail sentence imposed on an Egyptian student blogger for posting writings critical of Islam and the government, the state news agency MENA said. Blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman, then 22, was arrested in 2006 and cha...

Cairo December 16, 2009 - ANHRI The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information ,ANHRI,strongly resented the continued attitude of the Egyptian ministry of interior persistently wasting the Egyptian court decisions, refusing to implement the fourth release warrant issued, on 14\12\2009, by the Stat...

AlMasry Alyoum, 12/13/09 The family home of prominent Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas was raided and searched by plainclothes police while the activist was attending a bloggers' conference in Beirut, both Abbas and his mother said Sunday. Abbas first made a name for himself online by posting videos on...

Translated from the original posted by CoptReal Cairo-By Hassan Hafez: A group of educated Egyptian lawyers presented an original and inquisitive proposal that asks for urgent interference from the Egyptian government in order to stop the religious fanatic Islamic telecasts, which are describ...

 القاهرة - حسن حافظ في بيان غير مسبوق حقوقيين ومثقفين مصريين يطالبون الحكومة المصرية بالتدخل لإيقاف بث القنوات الدينية الإسلامية، التي وصفوها بالمتشددة بسبب ترويجها لما قالوا إنه «أفكار هدامة تدعو للتمييز ضد المرأة والأقباط، وتميل للنهج التشددي البعيد عن روح الإسلام». وتزامنت هذه ...

PRI.org, 11/2/09 Egypt is becoming an increasingly repressive society, but one Egyptian comedian is using his TV show to shake things up. A new Egyptian TV show features a fake Italian talk show host who interviews unsuspecting Egyptian officials. He asks them sexually suggestive questions, which ...

Yahoo! Movies, 11/3/09 When I interviewed director Roland Emmerich a few months ago about his upcoming disaster flick "2012," the first question I asked was, "Why do you like killing the world?" His response: "It makes for a good story." Over the past fifteen years, E...

by Lee Smith, The Weekly Standard 09/27/2009 12:00:00 PM   The Obama administration's Arab-Israeli peace process is in more trouble than even the White House realizes. To be sure, the Israelis and Palestinians are both dug in, and when the president sought baby steps from the Arabs toward no...

LA Times, 10/1/09 A Swedish journalist was deported by Egyptian state security officials today after he was detained at Cairo's airport Tuesday and prevented from entering the country. Per Bjorklund, who has been living in Cairo for the last three years as a freelance writer, was stopped by immigr...

Haaretz, 9/30/09 The board of directors of the powerful Egyptian media group Al-Ahram has decided to boycott Israel and Israelis of all positions, the London-based Arabic-language daily Asharq Alawsat reported yesterday. The Al-Ahram group is considered the most powerful media outlet in Egypt. Al-...

Cairo, 8/31//2009, AHRNI The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information , ANHRI, condemned the Kuwaiti ministry of information decision to ban the TV show " Soatak Wasal" (Your Voice is Heard), a comic show that criticizes Kuwaiti officials and MPs after airing 3 episodes. Following th...

Last week I wrote the details of Watani’s four-year-long struggle to obtain a permit from the Supreme Press Council (SPC) to issue a monthly version of Watani in Braille for the benefit of the visually impaired. A review of the correspondence between the SPC and Watani Printing and Publishing ...

Global Voices Advocacy, 7/22/09 Today, July 22, 2009, seems to be a start of a series of crackdown on bloggers in Egypt, as 3 young bloggers were arrested separately. The first blogger is Ahmad Abu Khalil, who was taken from his home in the dawn. State Security forces broke into Ahmad's house and ...

Committee to Protect Journalists, New York, April 30, 2009—With a military government that severely restricts Internet access and imprisons people for years for posting critical material, Burma is the worst place in the world to be a blogger, the Committee to Protect Journalists says in a new ...

MWC, 4/19/09:  An Egyptian court has dropped charges against the Cairo News Company(CNC), a media firm accused by the authorities of illegally transmitting footage of anti-government protests. The North Cairo Appeals court also overturned on Sunday a $27,000 fine imposed by a lower court aga...

April 14 (Bloomberg) -- Politically speaking, Mustafa Naggar, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Mohammed Sherif, a self-styled revolutionary socialist, should have little to say to each other. The Brotherhood, the Middle East’s prototype for Islamic- based politics, has long been at odd...

للاتصال: لورا إنجالز في واشنطن: 1-202-747-7035 دراسة جديدة تكشف عن تهديدات بازغة لحرية الانترنت واشنطن 30 مارس 2009 – حذرت دراسة جديدة لمؤسسة فريدم هاوس من تعرض حقوق مستخدمي الانترنت والهاتف المحمول لتهديد متزايد، حيث توسع الحكومات، قمعية كانت أم ديمقراطية، من قدرتها على مراقبة النشاط المعتم...

الوضع: حرة جزئيا العقبات أمام حرية الدخول على الانترنت: 8 (0-25) القيود على المحتوى والاتصال: 11 (0-35) انتهاكات حقوق المستخدمين: 26 (0-40) الإجمالي: 45 (0-100) مقدمة بينما سعت الحكومة المصرية بمثابرة ونجاح لتوسيع حرية الوصول للانترنت كمحرك للنمو الاقتصادي، حاولت أجهزة الأمن المصرية والأفراد ا...

Media Line, 4/06/09:  Assassins shot and killed Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) founder Hasan Al-Banna, 60 years ago. The silver screen will retell his life's story for all to watch. In what is being seen as a political move by the brotherhood to show their founder's life through the movem...

BBC, 4/8/09:  An Egyptian court has withdrawn the publishing licence of a monthly magazine, Ibdaa (Creativity), because it carried a "blasphemous" poem. In its ruling the court said the poem, printed two years ago, had included "expressions that insulted God". Egyptian cou...

3/28/09 CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities have released a 22-year-old Egyptian blogger and activist after nearly seven weeks in detention, an Egyptian human rights group said on Saturday. Police detained Diaa Eddin Gad on February 6 outside his home in the Nile Delta province of Gharbiya. Lond...

CAIRO, March 30, 2009 (ANRHI) - Human rights organizations expressed their condemnation of the trial of Magdi El-Shafei, author of the first Egyptian graphic novel "Metro," and his publishing company, who face charges of "publication and distribution of publications contrary to public...

Amnesty International, 23 March 2009 Experts of the Human Rights Council have concluded that the Egyptian authorities have detained blogger Karim Amer arbitrarily for his online criticisms and for exercising his right to freedom of expression. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention...

C'est une vidéo qui retourne le coeur. Un jeune homme de 21 ans pleure comme un enfant. Il va bientôt hurler sa douleur. Courte barbe noire, cheveux courts frisés, belle gueule, Imad El-Kebir est plié en deux sur un sol taché. Ses poignets sont attachés dans ...

CAIRO, March 3 2009 (Reuters) - Egyptian security authorities on Tuesday released an Internet activist who belongs to an anti-government protest group, a day after he was detained at his home, a security official and a human rights group said. Bloggers and human rights activists said security agent...

2/17/2009, New York Times, CAIRO — In Egypt, there is relative freedom to complain about and criticize the government, even the feared security services. Egypt is not Syria in that way, or Saudi Arabia, where public criticism aimed at the state is often dealt with harshly. But that is where...

The Associated Press Published: February 1, 2009 CAIRO: Four independent Egyptian editors convicted of defaming the president and his close associates have had their yearlong prison sentences overturned by an appeals court, state newspapers reported Sunday. The Cairo appeals court, however, mainta...

حين انقطع كابل الإنترنت الدولي، تحدثت مع أصدقائي حول حلمنا بالحرية الفكرية التي يمكنها أن تقود عالمنا العربي إلى التقدم والرقي في كافة مجالات الحياة. الناظر إلى الجرائد الورقية، يجد كَم ونوعية الإرهاب والضغوط التي تُمارس ضد الكثير من هذه الجرائد. هناك جرائد يُمارس ضدها الإرهاب الأمني، وهناك جر...

دق‏ ‏جرس‏ ‏التليفون‏ ‏وأتاني‏ ‏صوته‏ ‏منزعجا‏...‏إنه‏ ‏الدكتور‏ ‏بطرس‏ ‏غالي‏ ‏رئيس‏ ‏المجلس‏ ‏القومي‏ ‏لحقوق‏ ‏الإنسان‏,‏اتصل‏ ‏مستنكرا‏ ‏ما‏ ‏نشرتهوطنيفي&...

I answered my phone last Sunday to hear the disconcerted voice of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, head of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), complaining that Watani had that morning carried a false news item on page 5. The headline said “Sectarian events in Bemha, Ayaat: Muslim villagers bur...

On July 18, 2008, Bishop Thomas - Bishop of El-Qussia Diocese in Upper Egypt - gave a lecture entitled “The Experience of the Middle East’s largest Christian community during a time of rising Islamization”, in Hudson Institute. The Bishop talked about how the Arab invasion of Egypt...

On Tuesday, November 25th, Mr. Tamer Amin commented on his show in a very disgraceful way by saying that “some conflicts happened between Copts and Muslims in Mataria, and as in every situation, it is because of stupid reasons like laundry.” I would like to bring to the attention of ...

حدث في البيت بيتك يوم الثلاثاء الموافق 25 نوفمبر علق الأستاذ تامر أمين وباستياء شديد قائلاً " حصل بعض الاشتباكات بين الأقباط والمسلمين في المطرية وكما في كل حالة على أسباب تافه مثل شوية غسيل وحاجات تافه تانية" أحب أن ألفت نظر السيد تامر أمين الإعلامي أن مشكلة المطرية كانت حول كنيسة جدي...

By AMR BARGISI for The Wall Street Journal:  Dec. 1, 2008 Cairo, Egypt "But we are Semites ourselves!" That is what an urbane Egyptian journalist will likely reply to the charge that the Egyptian media is rife with anti-Semitism. But there are few places where Jews are blamed for ...

CAIRO, Egypt, 11/18/2008 (AP) — An Egyptian judge issued strict guidelines Monday limiting what could be reported about the trial of a well-connected Egyptian tycoon accused of ordering the murder of a Lebanese pop star. After throwing television cameras out of the courtroom Sunday, J...

10/26/2008, By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian news agency that transmitted footage of protesters tearing down a portrait of the president was fined $27,000 for operating unlicensed equipment, and its owner said Sunday he was targeted as a warning to other media. A judge...

CAIRO, October 24, 2008 (ANHRI/IFEX) – The Egyptian security apparatus is conducting an aggressive campaign against bloggers and Internet activists in many cities around Cairo, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reports. Christian blogger Hani Nazeer Aziz, who is based...

كتب يسري البدري وشيماء القرنشاوي ومجدي عصام ١٢/ ١٠/ ٢٠٠٨ تصوير - فؤاد الجرنوسي عادل حمودة في قاعة المحكمة أمس شهدت قاعات المحاكم، أمس، يوماً ساخناً، حيث تمت محاكمة ٥ صحفيين بينهم ٤ رؤساء تحرير في ٣ قضايا نشر. ففي قضية اتهام عا...