CAIRO: The European Union called on Egypt to ensure the transfer of all powers to a civil administration, and the full lifting of the state of emergency before the presidential elections, calling for the need to “draft a comprehensive democratic constitution that enshrines respect for human rights.” The EU called, in a report issued by [...]
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: Sexual violence against women is becoming routine during violent clashes in Egypt, activists said this week, accusing the ruling military junta’s troops and prison authorities of assaulting numerous women during the latest crackdown on pro-democracy protesters earlier this month. The activists have stated publicly that they were abused, intimidated and assaulted while under military [...]
Journalists should be protected. They should not face violence or arrest for doing their job. In Egypt, this is the farthest from the truth, where yet again this past week we saw reporters beaten, attacked and ultimately arrested by the military junta in Egypt that time and time again is unwilling to promote the very [...]
CAIRO: Following nearly two weeks of violence and tension near the ministry of defense, Egypt’s ruling military junta said it will not continue a curfew in the Abbassiya neighborhood where the clashes took place. The state-run MENA news agency cited an unnamed military official as stating the curfew would end as calm returns to the [...]
After deadly clashes on 2 May near the defence ministry, thousands of Egyptians took to the streets of Cairo and Alexandria two days later to protest against the army’s hold on power. In Cairo, demonstrators gathered, mostly in the Abbassiya district, near the defence ministry, despite warnings the day before from the army against any [...]
The Egyptian Election Committee expressed its anger towards what it called “insults from some” in a statement issued on Monday. The committee said some people are “talking irresponsibly about it,” which is preventing it from doing its job. The committee was formed by the ruling military council to be in charge of the country’s first [...]
Lawyers in Egypt said that the 14 women detained by the military on Friday were released on Sunday after the legal appeal was accepted by the military prosecutor. A total of 15 women were detained on Friday in the forced eviction of the sit-in near the ministry of defense, and military prosecutor ordered 14 of [...]
Following Wednesday’s clashes between protesters and unknown assailants that left at least 17 protesters dead according to activists and sources, life in Cairo’s Abbassiya district has come to a halt. The Cairo Metro Company shut down its Abbassiya line in fear of the safety of its passenger after some of the clashes took place around [...]
An Egyptian doctor volunteering at one of the makeshift hospitals in the Abbassiya district of Cairo assisting the wounded on Wednesday told the al-Dostour newspaper that at least 15 people have been killed in violent clashes that erupted massively on Wednesday morning. According to activists, “army sponsored thugs” attacked the demonstrators near the ministry of [...]
A report by Egypt’s Tahrir Doctors confirmed two people are dead from gun shots in the latest attack on the protesters outside Ein Shams University in Cairo, early on Wednesday. They said that the closeby hospitals that would normally receive the injured were closed, which resulted in the worsening of some of the urgent cases. [...]
Egyptian activists said 6 people have been killed and tens injured in the latest clash between protesters and who activists called “army sponsored thugs” on Wednesday morning Cairo time. Activists said they were attacked by the thugs outside Ein Shams University early on Wednesday in clashes that saw bullets fired, Molotov cocktails and rocks used. [...]
Egypt’s parliament will be suspended until a Cabinet shuffle is in place, said the lower house speaker Saad al-Katatny on Sunday. “It is my responsibility as speaker to protect the parliament’s dignity and its members. We must have a conclusion to this crisis,” Katatny said, addressing lawmakers in the lower house on Sunday in a [...]
After 14 month since the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak and his regime, Egypt’s military junta finally approved the banning of public figures affiliated with the old regime, from participating in political life for a number of years, according to state-run al-Ahram newspaper. The decree, numbered 17 for 2012, declared that “those who have worked [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, said on Saturday that the SCAF are keen to pilot Egypt toward safety. The remarks were made on the sidelines of military drills by the army. “The Armed Forces are Egypt’s backbone,” said Tantawi, adding that SCAF will hand over [...]
CAIRO: Presidential hopeful Khaled Ali attacked the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces demands to draft the constitution before the upcoming presidential elections. There is no reason for the hurry to draft a constitution that won’t fit the people who sacrificed its best youth for the success of the revolution, said Ali in a [...]
CAIRO: General Mamdouh Shahin, one of the members of the ruling military council in Egypt rejected suggestions that military judiciary cases should be transferred to civilian courts, describing the demand as “nonsense”. “Military tribunals have been recognized by earlier Egyptian constitutions,” Shahin said today, during a Parliament session that discussed a bill to amend the [...]
CAIRO: In a press statement, presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi said that postponing the presidential elections for any reason is “totally unacceptable”. “There is a fixed timeline that has been announced for the handover of power to an elected president. Modifying this timeline would lead to a disaster”, Sabahi added. “The Egyptian people, who endured more [...]
CAIRO: Few hours ago, started the first session of the Port Said football disaster trial, at the Mubarak police academy. The session was adjourned twice as the defendants, who deny any role in the disaster, began shouting from inside their cage. During the afternoon, the session was adjourned for the second time, when the defendants [...]
CAIRO: Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Chairman of the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, has met with members of the SCAF’s advisory council, to discuss recent political developments. On the same day, Tantawi also met with the representatives of 19 political parties and several independent MPs. At the meeting, the advisory council proposed [...]
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