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Statesman Gaddafi Still Rules a Police State

the Post, Mohamed Eljahmi, brother of jailed Libyan dissident Fathi Eljahmi, reminds us of the Libyan government’s miserable human rights record. As Libyan tyrant Moammar Gaddafi rejoins polite society, receives congratulatory phone calls from the U.S. president, and son Saif gets an audience with Secretary Rice, Libya remains a police state and democracy advocates like Eljahmi languish in Gaddafi’s dungeons...

Democracy Promotion in U.S. Foreign Policy

Michael Allen at Democracy Digest points to a thread at the CFR Forum in which Peter Beinart asks the house: “how central is the promotion of liberal democracy to a liberal foreign policy?”..

UNRWA suspends financial assistance to refugees in Gaza

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees has announced that it would be forced to suspend its financial assistance to refugees in the Gaza Strip due to the lack of Israeli currency in Gaza banks...

Barghouthi: IOA measures against Gaza war crime

MP Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi has charged that the Israeli occupation authority’s measures against the Gaza Strip, siege and closure of crossings, constituted a war crime and a blatant violation of the international laws and the Geneva Convention...

Khudari: Gaza out of wheat

MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular anti siege committee, has affirmed that the flour mills in the Gaza Strip have come to complete halt due to the Israeli closure of all crossings for 16 days running...

Ikhwanweb Interview With Dr. Ali Basha Omar, Head of the "Reform Movement" in Somalia

The Horn of Africa is considered one of the world’s hottest spots witnessing political instability and insecurity since the 80s. Since the American invasion on Somalia in the early 90s, the Somali people have been living in civil wars and under the line of poverty. Moreover, the situation is getting worse day after another despite the several attempts made to end it. A few days ago Dr. Ali Basha Omar was elected as the new Chairman of the "Reform Movement" (MB) in Somalia. Ikhwanwe..

Fayyoum Prosecution Decides To Release Blogger Khairi

Fayyoum Prosecution, headed by Chancellor Abdul Hai Fazourah (Attorney General in Fayyoum) decided on Wednesday to release the blogger Mohamed Khairi after referring him to Fayyoum Prosecution...

Health ministry: Dozens of patients may die in case of a power outage

he health ministry in the Gaza Strip warned that dozens of Palestinian patients might die within half an hour if there is any power outage in the units of intensive care, heart and preterm infants in Gaza hospitals...

European campaign warns of Israeli attempts to dupe the world on Gaza

The European campaign to lift the siege on Gaza has warned of an Israeli attempt to draw the world’s attention away from the oppressive siege imposed on the Strip...

Egypt: A third ruling upholds the decision to prohibit publicity

The legal unit for the freedom of expression utterly rejects the decision issued by the president of the criminal court in south Cairo at the trial session held today. This upheld the decision to ban any media presence or publication of any information at the trial of the people accused of murdering Lebanese artist Susan Tamim. All note taking is prohibited except for the minutes of the investigation and the publication of any final decision which may be made by the court at the end of..

Police in Sudan arrest dozens of journalists protesting against media censorship

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information watched with growing concern as the Sudanese government arrested dozens of journalists and columnists...

United Arab Emirates: appeal court ordered suspends newspaper for twenty days

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information today condemns an order raised by the Abu Dhabi court of appeal on 18th November to suspend the newspaper Emarat Alyoum, for defamation. The court also fined the newspaper’s editor-in-chief Sami Al-Alraymi in the amount of 20,000 dirham, and the newspaper 500,000 dirham...

POMED Notes: Future of the Middle East

Yesterday afternoon the Rumi Forum hosted foreign policy analyst, former diplomat, and independent consultant Stuart Schwartzstein to discuss the challenges facing the Obama administration in the Middle East...

Six MB Students Expelled From University

Cairo University’s Law School administration referred to investigations 14 Brotherhood students including two female students on Monday for organizing a show titled "Drawing a Heart" calling for the spread of virtue and tolerance within the society. ..

Khudari warns: Gaza population might march towards crossings

Alarm sirens wailed in northern Gaza on Tuesday as the popular anti siege committee members and foreign solidarity activists marched near the Beit Hanun (Erez) crossing to protest the Israeli occupation authority’s continued closure of all Gaza commercial crossings for 15 consecutive days..

IOA navy kidnaps three int’l activists and 16 fishermen in Gaza waters

The ministry of agriculture reported Tuesday morning that three international activists and 16 Palestinian fishermen have been kidnapped in Palestinian waters by the Israeli navy...

‘Seismic’ economic shifts challenging democracy assistance

The Economist Intelligence Unit recently highlighted the possibility of the global financial crisis undermining democracy and democracy assistance..

The Mantra of ‘Change’ Makes Arab Autocrats Nervous

Daoud Kuttab writes in the Huffington Post about how the Egyptian government sought to expunge a newspaper cartoon that hoped for change in Egypt much like the one seen in the U.S. election. “The weekly stated that 150,000 copies of the paper’s first edition were quickly removed from the streets and destroyed and the ‘troublesome’ phrase disappeared from future prints that day.”..

Egypt Judiciary Halts Gas Exports To IOA

Administrative Judiciary Court decided on Tuesday to halt the government decision of exporting natural gas to Israel. The ruling might motivate similar lawsuits against exporting gas to other countries...

Report: 1.25 Million Workers Participated In 2007 Demonstrations

The first annual report of the Egyptian Workers and Trade Union Watch referred to the fact that the expansion of the labor movement is an evidence of the failure of the official union organization in playing its role in defending the interests of the workers...