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Report Warns on Spread of HIV in Egypt

A report issued by the Center for Information and Decision Support of the Council of Ministers has stated that Egypt is moving towards curb the spread of the epidemic of HIV in the light of the rising number of people living with the disease...

Swine Flu Deaths Reach 159

On Monday 10 new deaths were reported as a result of the H1N1 virus...

Egyptian Activists File Suit To Stop Gaza Wall

A former Egyptian ambassador, Ibrahim Yousry, in addition to 250 Egyptian and foreign political activists, jurists and parliamentarians filed a lawsuit before an administrative court on Monday against both President Mubarak, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, and Ministers of the Interior and Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Habib Al- Adli...

Lifeline Convoy Faces Violent Clashes on Way to Gaza

The “Lifeline” convoy organized by “Viva Palestina” and headed by the prominent British MP George Galloway began moving from the Port of El Arish to the Rafah crossing on its way to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after a long day of clashes between the organizers of the Convoy and Egyptian security services...

Cairo to Host Conference on Stolen Antiquities

The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced on Wednesday that 30 countries that possess ancient Egyptian monuments and artifacts will participate in a conference next April in Cairo to discuss the restoration and recovery of the artifacts...

Al Ahram Releases Study on Corruption in Egypt

A recent report by the Al Ahram Center for Strategic Studies showed that a high portion of Egyptians believe that the recent rise in commodity prices is a manifestation of systemic corruption...

Mosque in Germany to Honor Marwa El Sherbini

Cairo: A group of Islamic and Arab leaders, as well as a group from the Egyptian community in Germany, have asked the German government to grant them a license to build a mosque in Dresden in honor of the Egyptian woman killed in a courtroom in the same city...

Mubarak’s Intervention Ends Two Year Ordeal for Egyptian Doctors

The case of two Egyptian doctors working in Saudia Arabia who were facing severe punishment and a sentence of 1500 lashes, which has generated controversy and debate about the mistreatment and violations against Egyptian workers rights in the kingdom, came to an end after President Hosni Mubarak’s meeting with the Saudi King Abdullah in Riyadh last week..

150 Activists Strike in Front of the Cairo World Trade Center

More than 1,400 human rights activists from various civil society organizations in France, Italy and Belgium organized a protest in front of the World Trade Center in Cairo on Monday afternoon...

Israeli rabbi describes Islam as “ugly”

Israel’s former top Rabbi, Shas party spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, harshly criticized Islam as a religion and described it as an “ugly” faith during a speech he delivered on Saturday night for the occasion of Hanukah...

Egypt: 1.2 million suffer depression

Said Abdel-Azim, a Professor of Psychiatry at Cairo University, revealed that the number of people living with depression in Egypt has reached 1.2 million persons from the 140 million people who suffer from the disease worldwide, pointing out that the proportion of depressed Egyptian people increases in the countryside more so than in urban areas...

Egypt minister: shocking number of under-age girls married to elderly Arab men

CAIRO: Egypt’s Minister of State for Family and Population Moshira Khattab said last week that a recent study from the ministry revealed that there is a “shocking” number of underage girls wedding elderly Arab men in the country...

Egypt issues resolution to stop dealing with 33 Gulf companies

Egypt`s Minister of Manpower and Immigration, Aisha Abdel Hady issued a resolution to stop dealing with 33 companies and establishments in three Gulf countries, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates due to what she described as “deliberate insults and offense” against Egyptian workers in the countries...

Egypt: Rights groups warn of “political considerations” over human rights

Egyptian human rights organizations warned on Wednesday of what they described as the ” intrusion of political considerations,” which stands as a barrier to the adoption of a resolution condemning Egypt during the periodic review of its human rights record before the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 17...

Egypt confirms 22nd Swine flu death

Egypt’s health ministry confirmed that a 53-year-old man has died from the H1N1 influenza virus, or Swine flu, pushing the total number of related deaths in the country to 22...

Another Egyptian holiday, more sexual harassment

In what is becoming commonplace in Egypt every Eid (Islamic Feast), or holiday, security forces and civil society groups monitored hundreds of sexual harassment cases during the four-day vacation...

Egypt rights group to launch counter report

CAIRO: A coalition of 16 Egyptian human rights organizations announced that they plan to send a collective report on the current human rights conditions in Egypt to the United Nations ahead of their scheduled review of the National Human Rights Council’s report in February...

Police kill Egyptian farmer, protests follow

CAIRO: A farmer from Ismo el-Aroos village in Deir Mawas in the Minya governorate some 250 miles south of Cairo was killed after two police officers broke into his house some time after midnight on Wednesday under the pretext of searching the home, saying they were looking for an unlicensed weapon. When the farmer objected, a fight arose between him and the officers, which resulted in the death of the farmer...

Egypt spends 8.71 billion pounds on communications in 3 months

CAIRO: A recent report issued by the Ministry of Communications revealed that Egyptians spent 8.71 billion Egyptian pounds ($1.5 billion) on communications during the period from April to June. The report indicated that the revenues of the main telecommunication companies in the country, including Telecom Egypt, Mobinil and Vodafone has risen by nearly one billion Egyptian pounds, compared to LE 7.90 billion accrued during the same period in 2008...

AOHR: Human rights situation in Egypt worsens

A report issued by the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) revealed that cases of torture in Egypt has reached an “unbearable” point and has become a “method practiced” at the highest level. The rights organization said that torture includes all segments of Egyptian society including that of women, children, youth and the elderly “without regard to any social status.”..