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Military trial for Egyptian blogger

An Egyptian blogger referred to a military court for a ruling had his verdict postponed until Tuesday, lawyers from the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said. Ahmed Mostafa, 20, is being accused by the government of publishing false information on the country’s military establishment...

Sleepless in Gaza … and Jerusalem: Video diary of 4 Palestinian women

The “Sleepless” YouTube site was launched on Sunday afternoon and already the hits are pouring in from across the region and the globe. As of noon Monday, over 1,000 viewers had watched the trailer that launches the innovative and unique experience of looking inside Palestine through the eyes of its women...

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood: Opposite effects

The recent arrest of several Muslim Brotherhood leaders came as no surprise. In fact many had been expecting the move for weeks. What did raise eyebrows was the charge sheet, some items on which were so naïve as to seem laughable...

Iraq: Protect Christians from Violence

Iraq’s government should bolster security to protect the lives of Christians in Mosul, Human Rights Watch said today...

Headlines from the region

Headlines from the region..

IMF calls on Egypt to cut budget deficit

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on Egypt to take measures to cut its budget deficit within the coming fiscal year in order to reassure investors that the government was in fact serious about cutting this deficit in half within the coming half decade period...

Iraq: Candidates Should Promote Human Rights

After Iraq’s last parliamentary elections in 2005, violence devastated Shia and Sunni Arab communities in central and southern Iraq. While some of the worst violence has subsided, armed groups continue to persecute minorities without punishment, and violence against women and girls continues to plague the country...

Egypt Water official: Nile Basin has no water scarcity

Attempting to debunk the idea that the Nile Basin is suffering from water scarcity, a senior Egyptian water ministry official said that the Nile Basin nations do not suffer from these shortages and if they do it is because of misuse of the resource...

Egypt police shoot dead African on border

The Egyptian government has bolstered its border presence in recent years at the request of the Israeli government, who has repeatedly said Egypt must do more to end the illegal crossings of Africans into the Jewish state...

ElBaradei pushes on in Egypt, gets Coptic support

The former nuclear chief continues to get the support of opposition movements and activists from different political currents, and most recently the Coptic community has thrown their support behind a potential ElBaradei presidential run...

Washington says Egypt leading piracy battle

The US government explained that Egypt is leading the working group on public information, while the UK is leading a team specialized in military coordination and information exchange...

One-third of all young Arabs want to leave Middle East

The number of young people who make up this category is some 100 million young people, which means that the Middle East region has the largest number of young people who are qualified to enter the labor market in its history, the report said...

Egypt: Open All Judicial Positions to Women

Despite this important ruling, women are still barred from serving as judges in other state bodies, including criminal courts, the New York-based rights group said...

Egypt: fist fight erupts in Parliament over workers’ strike

MB MP and NDP MP traded insults over strikes in Tanta's Flax company which has continued for over three weeks...

Iran: End Persecution of Baha’is

The Iranian government should immediately stop harassing and arbitrarily detaining members of the Baha’i community, Human Rights Watch said today...

Jordan: Sudanese writer/publisher convicted

According to ANHRI, the writer and publishing house was accused of supporting the Shi’a Islamic sect after publishing a book titled “Letters fo the Sheikh Neil … Reviewing Islamic Thought.”..

Headlines from the region

Al-Qaeda in North Africa frees hostage A French hostage abducted in Mali and held for three months by al-Qaeda’s north African wing arrived on Wednesday in the capital Bamako, hours after his release...

UN: General Assembly Vote on Gaza War Crimes Report

26, 2010, United Nations member states are scheduled to vote on a resolution that points the way to justice for victims of serious violations of the laws of war committed by Israel and Hamas during the Gaza conflict...

ElBaradei to head national assembly for change in Egypt

ElBaradei said that Egypt is “experiencing critical parliamentary elections this year and presidential elections the following year, and there is an urgency for change,” pointing out that the meeting with the national opposition leaders agreed to move in a peaceful manner in order to bring about the desired change...

Azhar: Saudi fatwa a bit 'extreme'

CAIRO: A Saudi Arabian scholar has sparked new controversy and ire among Egypt’s al-Azhar scholars after issuing a fatwa that authorizes the killing of any individual that allows for the the interaction of men and women and called for the end of their co-existence in the workforce and education...