CAIRO: Egypt’s popular political figure Mohamed ElBaradei, the former president of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the co-founder of the al-Dostor Party, criticized the course of the current political transition phase in Egypt on Tuesday. He reiterated his warning that the election of a president according to the current constitutional declaration issued by [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Free Front for Peaceful Change Movement accused in a statement on Tuesday the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) of attempts to “disrupt the drafting of the constitution, and the selection of the members of the Constituent Assembly, so as to ensure controlling the powers of the next president [...]
CAIRO: The Egyptian Catholic Church issued a statement on Tuesday confirming that it stands neutral and objective, and does not prefer a certain presidential candidate in the upcoming presidential race, stressing that it “respects the freedom of its followers and their right to choose who they see as the most viable.” The Council of Catholic [...]
CAIRO: Raafat Saleeb, a leader of the Copts of the United States of America and resident of Los Angeles, issued a press release on Tuesday, on behalf of the Egyptian Copts in America, emphasizing that after considering the presidential candidates` electoral programs, and “their political, economic and background amd practical experience, they found that all [...]
CAIRO: The liberal Free Egyptians Party warned of the “serious and grave” repercussions of the “exploitation of mosques” in the propaganda of the election campaigns of presidential candidates in Egypt. The party called in a statement on Monday, on both the government and the Higher Presidential Elections Commission, to take “all legal measures to immediately [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Coalition of the Youth of the Revolution declared on Monday its support for presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi in the upcoming elections, and called for the masses of the Egyptian people and the political forces to support him, and “to unite efforts behind him to face the remnants of the former regime.” The campaign [...]
CAIRO: A poll conducted by Egypt’s Center for Information and Decision Support of the Cabinet on the presidential candidates showed that Ahmed Shafiq topped the list of candidates for the presidential race, after obtaining 12 percent of the votes, followed by Amr Moussa with 11 percent, while Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh came in third with [...]
CAIRO: A number of Egyptian medical associations and human rights organizations issued a joint statement on Monday condemning reports on the mobile medical convoy for circumcision of girls in Minya governorate, organized by the Muslim Brotherhood`s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). They expressed their shock from the attempts to tamper with guarantees of the “bodily [...]
CAIRO: A number of Egyptian human rights groups have submitted a communication to the Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud against the Muslim Brotherhood`s political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) to investigate the complaints of people in the village of Abu Aziz in the Minya governorate, south of Cairo, over the existence of a [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Minister of Interior Major General Mohammed Ibrahim issued a decision on Sunday to grant Egyptian citizenship to 925 people, sons and daughters of Egyptian mothers married to a foreign husband. He said the ruling was in accordance with the provisions of Article III of the Law “154″ for the year 2004. Egypt passed [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s liberal leaning Free Egyptians Party declared its support for the calls and demands by women’s rights organizations and NGOs in the country, which have called for woman’s rights. The party also said it stands against “the phenomenon of sexual harassment” and called for the passing of a law criminalizing the act. The party [...]
CAIRO: Boutros Boutros Ghali, President of the semi-governmental National Council for Human Rights, expressed his non-objection to allow international and local organizations to monitor the presidential elections. He said that this position had “already been called for by the council in many similar occasions and the Council had already emphasized this in its published reports.” [...]
CAIRO: The Free Front for Peaceful Change declared on Saturday its support for presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, saying that its decision comes after what the Movement saw in his electoral program as an emphasis on the civil state, and that his slogans “are in line with the goals of the January 25 revolution, freedom and [...]
CAIRO: The Union of Coptic Organizations in Europe, and more than 20 other Coptic groups in the United States, declared their total rejection to support any presidential candidate with a religious reference. The groups also expressed their rejection to any possible Islamic rule in Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood or the Salafists. They said that [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s state-owned MENA news agency reported on Saturday that a court ruling in Switzerland has been issued in favor of Egypt, which would allow Egypt to recover funds embezzled by former President Hosni Mubarak and his cronies. The ruling was in response to Egypt’s efforts to recover the money since the January uprising ousted [...]
CAIRO: Talaat Abdel Awi, Egypt’s Vice-President of the General Federation of Associations and NGOs, said that the Higher Committee for the Presidential Elections agreed to grant permission and licenses to some 320 members of the General Federation and Regional Associations and local NGOS as representatives of civil society to monitor the electoral process, in addition [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Coalition of the Artists of the Revolution announced on its official Facebook page that it supports presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi as the next president of Egypt, under the slogan “Moving towards a better future with Sabahi … we support you.” The Coalition said in a statement that it decided to support the long-time [...]
CAIRO: The Egyptian Publishers Association said this week that the ministry of interior confiscated some 19,000 “fake books” and referred the case to the prosecution. This came after three weeks of the Association`s announcement to begin preparing a black list of counterfeit book publishers, under a plan designed “to combat the sale of counterfeit books.” [...]
CAIRO: The International Labor Organization (ILO) on Thursday in its annual report on workers’ freedoms globally, criticized the continued absence of trade union freedoms and workers’ rights in Egypt, and subsequently listed Egypt on the black list of countries that do not respect trade union freedoms. The ILO placed Egypt on the “short-term” black list, [...]
CAIRO: The head of Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW), Ambassador Mervat Tallawy called for appointing a female Vice-President when a new president is elected. Elections for Egypt’s top job begin on May 23-24 and if a runoff is needed will continue in June. She stressed that the value and status of women in society [...]
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