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Egypt human rights committee demands detainees’ release

Members of the Committee on Human Rights of the People’s Assembly demanded the presence of any representative of the ministry of interior in Parliament to introduce the ministry’s security policy under the emergency law recently approved by the People’s Assembly...

The US-Egypt NGO funding problem

Despite Washington’s annoyance that Egypt renewed the controversial Emergency Laws that allow for arrest and detention without trial and the use of State Security Courts, the United States didn’t appear to be doing much else on bolstering Egypt’s floundering democracy groups...

Egypt’s Kandil stopped at Amman airport

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reported on Sunday that leading political activist and columnist Abdel Halim Kandil was held at Jordan’s Amman International Airport for 7 hours on May 15...

Egyptians struggle to get medicine

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) reported in late April that the Egyptian Administrative Court ruled to stop the introduction of a new drug pricing system, which connects between the price of medicine in Egypt and the prices in foreign countries...

North African bloggers get creative to evade censorship

When confronted with free speech as an act of self-expression, authoritarian powers throughout history have tried to assert their legitimacy and remove threats to their rule through censorship...

Egypt: State Security Emergency Courts to try MB in absentia

Egypt’s Emergency State Security Court decided to begin the trial of four Egyptian members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in July on charges of “affiliation to and fundraising for a banned group, the MB.”..

The Muslim vote in the UK

After five truly gripping days of political horse-trading at Westminster in London, David Cameron has emerged as the new British Prime Minister in the first coalition government since 1940...

IOF must stop harassment of human rights defender

Amnesty International has called on the Israeli authorities to end their harassment of a human rights activist whose week-long detention by the Israeli authorities was extended today...

Egyptian-American caught with weapons at Cairo airport

Mohamed Ibrahim Marei’s reason for being nervous was that in a secrete compartment of his checked luggage, customs found two undeclared 9mm handguns, 250 rounds in a metal box, two swords and 11 knives...

Interview: Police turned me away after sexual assault

Reem is a 21-year-old Egyptian woman who recently graduated from university and is looking forward to the future...

Egypt launches first Arabic domain suffix

The computers are filled with eager Internet users at this Cairo-based café. They have their headphones on and are tapping away at the keys with ease and quickness...

Libya: Recent incident highlights need for investigations into Abu Salim Prison killings

The confrontation between families of victims of the Abu Salim Prison killings of June 1996 and the former coordinator of an organization representing families of those killed in clashes with armed Islamist groups highlights the urgent need for the Libyan authorities to address the legacy of the past, Amnesty International said today...

200 families at risk of forced eviction in Egypt

On May 4, with no prior notification, Port Said’s local authorities demolished 15 one-storey homes, leaving the families who lived there without alternative housing...

Corruption report not too positive for Middle East

Anyone familiar with the Middle East knows all too well that corruption is one of those conundrums that seems to get worse year after year as government and business continue to jump into bed together...

Israel admits use of Shin Bet to watch international activist

West Bank: Israel has exposed the extent of its crackdown on resistance in an affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court on April 29, claiming that the Shin Bet intelligence agency has been conducting surveillance on ISM activist and Australian citizen Bridget Chappell in Area A of the West Bank...

The Earth is a mosque

Last Thursday, on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, I found myself thinking back to my first hiking trip to New York’s Bear Mountain...

Media should get Islam right

The media shows Muslim terrorists with guns performing prayers but rarely associates terms like terrorist, fanatic and fundamentalist with any other religious group...

Default Positions: U.S. immigration & Israeli settlements

How long have these illegal immigrants lived in the United States? Some for only a few months, but for the most part much longer...

Egypt: sweeping reform needed to protect workers’ rights

“The authorities must mark International Workers’ Day by announcing sweeping legal and institutional reforms to promote and protect labor rights, including by allowing for workers to organize freely and form unions,” said Amnesty International...

Sarah Palin’s defense of Islamophobe shows real sentiments

Sarah Palin reveals much about the reality of America’s conservative society: hate and fearmongering. Palin, the former Vice-Presidential candidate and former Governor of Alaska, this week defended ultra-right wing conservative preacher Franklin Graham, who has been an ardent antagonist of Islam throughout his life...