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Mubarak government cracks down on jurists advocating judicial and election reforms
Facing his colleagues inside the small hearing room at the High Court building in downtown Cairo, Hesham Bestawissi could hear the faint chants of several hundred protesters outside as they squared off against more than 10,000 black-clad riot police officers.

A high-ranking appeals court jud..

In interactive editorials, the editor of Al-Jazeerah answers questions and or responds to comments of readers, which are more general than readers’ responses to specific articles or issues. It is an effective method of interaction in electronic journalism.

Tony Lombardini:
Thank you once again for your valuable comments on this complicated situation. They have assisted m..

In the 7th of May 2006, Egyptian women were arrested
Including Nada ElKassas, Rasha Azab, Soha Ali and Asma Abd Elgalil, as well as few young men;Alaa seif, Fady Eskander, Kareem El Shaer and Mohamed Awaad In addition to the previous detainees were arrested two weeks back.

What’s wrong of that!

This is a normal thing for a dictat..

As Egyptians living in the United States, we have been following the alarming setbacks of democratic reforms in Egypt.

We strongly condemn the attempts to influence and limit the independence of the Egyptian judiciary, including the disciplinary measures taken against judges Hesham Bastawisi and Mahmoud Mekki.

We demand that those disciplinary measures are immediatel..

The Iranian regime and Hamas are currently upgrading their alliance, which is over a decade long. It is an alliance across the great Islamic divide, between a Sunni group and a Shiite regional power. Radical religious movements do not easily form alliances; they tend to fight each other, at times over small details of doctrine. On the rare occasions they do unite, it is generally to jointly sup..

Today’s emergency meeting of the general assembly of the Judges’ Club comes after a week of escalating conflict between the judiciary and state authorities

Today the Judges’ Club will hold an emergency meeting to protest Minister of Justice Mahmoud Abul-Leil’s recommendation, two weeks ago, that 10 pro-reform judges be subjected to disciplinary action. In his request for the referral Ab..

State security police arrested eight activists on Sunday morning when they gathered in front of the South Cairo Court House where judges Hisham Bastawesi and Mahmoud Mikky appeared before court deciding their case. A large number of police officers and soldiers surrounded a group of activists for four hours before they were taken into custody. The eight activists, including three females, belon..

Hamas’ success in the Palestinian legislative elections last January was not a happy surprise for decision-makers in Jordan. They did not expect the Islamic movement in Palestine to attain a majority sufficient for the formation of its own government in the Palestinian Authority (PA).

If the initial and official reaction was cautious and confused, observers believe that Amman has good ..

“You bitches. You sons of bitches. This is how it is going to be from now on if you do not behave and know your limits. If you do not behave you’ll have the bottom of my old shoes all over you." These and more were the exact words of Sami Sedhom, Assistant to the Egyptian Minister of Interior, Habib el Adly.

Six months after shock electoral gains, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood have injected new life into Parliament but some argue they have failed to propose a program beyond a systematic opposition to the regime. On November 9, 2005, the Islamist movement electrified a political landscape atrophied by decades of one-party rule by inflicting stinging defeats on the National Democratic Party.

The..

The Egyptian government has made a strategic mistake by extending the application of the Emergency Law, in force since 1981 following the assassination of the former Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat. The extension was adopted despite the fact that the President Hosni Mubarak had expressed his determination to abolish that law during the presidential elections and start applying an ‘anti-terroris..

The Egyptian Center for Women’s Right (ECWR) issued statement in the aftermath of the events of May 7th, where several activits were arrested by state security police during their show of solidarity with reformist judges (Photo courtesy of Misrdigital.com)

Female Activists in the Clutches of State Security…..TAKE TWO

The son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied accusations from the opposition that the regime was not delivering on his father’s promises of reform.

"I say this is not true," said Gamal Mubarak, who heads the ruling National Democratic Party’s policies committee.

"We have an agenda for reform. We are achieving things," he told reporters at a rare news conference he called t..

Jordan Arrests 30 Muslim Brothers on Charges of  Smuggling Katucha Rockets and Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Regards This as a Conspiracy Between the Government and Fath Movement Designed to Foil the Palestinian Government
 

The official spokesman of the Jordanian government, Nasser Joudah, declared today, Wednesday, 10 May 2006, that 20 people were arrested and Iranian-made r..

Will judges be for Egypt what the electrician Lech Walesa was for Poland: leaders of the first independently organized group in society that successfully challenges and then breaks the government’s monopoly over political power? Will Egyptian judges who change Egyptian politics also shake up political power throughout the Arab world, as Poland’s independent trade union, Solidarity, did in 1980,..

State Security police in massive numbers surrounded all entries to downtown Cairo to prevent large number of Egyptians who came from all over the country to show their solidarity to Judges Hisham Bastawi..

Mr George Bush,

President of the United States of America

For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions that exist in the international arena -- which are being constantly debated, specially in
 political forums and amongst university students. Many questions remain unanswered. These have prompted me to discuss some of the contr..

For a very brief moment in downtown Cairo Thursday, there seemed to be a small flowering of democracy, the kind of popular expression of will that the Bush Administration has declared to be a central part of its Middle East agenda. Hundreds of marchers wound through the capital’s traffic-gnarled streets pumping their fists and chanting, "O freedom, where are you, where are you? See, [President]..