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Israel: End crackdown on anti-wall activists

Israel has detained Palestinians who advocate non-violent protests against the separation barrier and charged them based on questionable evidence, including allegedly coerced confessions...

Egypt releases Cairo bombing suspects

The Egyptian government has ordered the release of 7 people who allegedly took part in the Cairo bombing of a local market in February 2009, which left one French teenager dead and around 20 people injured...

Egypt: Fmr Appellate Court Vice-President says gov’t misled over Muslim Brotherhood

Former Egyptian appellate judge Mahmoud Khodeiry spoke out against the Egyptian government’s recent crackdown against the popular and powerful Muslim Brotherhood group, saying that the government is misled into thinking the Brotherhood has any terrorism links...

Egypt’s Shehata says he would have dropped England’s Terry

Cairo:Egyptian national football coach Hassan Shehata told England manager Fabio Capello that John Terry would have been out on his ear if he had been his manager...

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...

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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 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...

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...

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.”..

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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...

Thousands mark five years of protest in Bil’in

Following the victory forcing Israel to begin rerouting the path of the Wall, and in face of the Army’s unprecedented attempts to crack down on the popular struggle, the people of Bil’in will celebrate five years of protest tomorrow...

Iran ’shows contempt’ for human rights by rejecting UN recommendations

Amnesty International today criticized Iran for rejecting important recommendations by the United Nations to improve human rights in the country...

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A Moroccan man who spread al-Qaeda propaganda from his Quebec apartment and dreamed of blowing himself up in an overseas terrorist attack was sentenced to life in prison yesterday, matching the stiffest penalty yet under Canada’s anti-terrorism law...

Egypt reports one Bird flu death

The World Health Organization (WHO) this week confirmed two cases of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, in the country’s newest outbreak of the virus. One of those cases resulted in the death of an Egyptian woman...

Bil’in: 1,000 demonstrators dismantled the wall

During the demonstration two demonstrators were lightly hurt. One was struck with a tear-gas projectile in the leg and another was shot in the stomach by a rubber-coated bullet...

Headlines from the region 15-2-2010

African Youth Games 2010 in Morocco Morocco will in May this year host the inaugural African Youth Games...