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Egyptian security officials arrested 11 more political reform activists, including an award-winning blogger, Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam, Human Rights Watch said today. This brings to more than 100 the number of people detained over the past two weeks for exercising their rights to freedom of assembly and expression.

Approximately half of those arrested are members of the Muslim Brothe..

The uproar and controversy over purported U.S. plans to attack Iran show no sign of dying down. While President George W. Bush assures us that talk of impending war is little more than “wild speculation,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently threatened to assemble a “coalition of the willing” against Iran outside the U.N. if the security council fails to take action. All this has convin..

In order to understand what caused the confrontations in the last few months between the judiciary branch and the government, it is important to examine the history of the judiciary in Egypt and its evolution until today. . . Tareq Al Bishri writes

Tareq al Bishri: In the Spirit of Democracy, Independence According to Culture Not La..

Some Palestinian sources asserted yesterday that Faruq Al-Qaddumi the head of the Political Department of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the secretary of the Central Committee of Fateh Movement supports the stance of the government of Hamas that refuses to recognize Israel.

During his meeting with the Arab ambassadors to Tunisia, Al-Qaddumi praised the stance of the ..

The European Union and the United States stopped their financial aids to the Palestinian government of Hamas, as a kind of punishment to the Palestinian people for electing Hamas in the last Palestinian elections that were characterized by neutrality and transparency and that expressed the free choice of the Palestinians to the program of Hamas.

Thus, Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the head of t..

The Palestinian Prime Minister Isma`il Haniyya announced that `Umar `Abd Al-Raziq, the Minister of Finance, informed him that he received a treasury of no budget, rather it is over burdened by a high debt and a financial deficit. However, during the first meeting of the government in the headquarters of the Palestinian presidency in Gaza, Haniyya asserted that the government would exert all eff..

The Bush Administration provides moral support, but brave Arab democrats battling authoritarian regimes are the real heroes

Hisham Bastawisi is no revolutionary. An Egyptian appeals-court judge, his conservative leanings are evident in his dark suits, round spectacles and polished shoes. During most of his years on the Court of Cassation, he avoided rocking the boat. Yet by leve..

Pushed by Congressman Tom Lantos (D California) the GAO is forcing the Departments of State and Defense to do something that is almost impossible—justify America’s massive annual ($1.3 billion) military aid package to Egypt. Conceived essentially as a reward to Egypt in return for signing a peace agreement with Israel, the United States has continued to pour money on the Egyptian military to th..

THIS is my sweetheart," said Ahmed Fouad Negm as he gently kissed the dried head of a dead tortoise, patted its shell and tenderly put it away.

Mr. Negm was on the roof of his apartment building, high above the sprawling, chaotic, filthy, garbage-strewn neighborhood of Mokkatam, where he dispensed with formalities and introduced himself as a man who loved a tortoise.

"Glory for ..

Thursday, 11 May 2006, will be engraved in the memory of the Egyptian nation, given the extent of violence and terrorism exercised by the Egyptian regime against opponents showing their support for judges in their demand for an independent judiciary. Actions of Egyptian security on that day illustrates the extent of police brutality and violence towards opposition forces. Those assau..

Thursday, 11 May 2006, will be engraved in the memory of the Egyptian nation, given the extent of violence and terrorism exercised by the Egyptian regime against opponents showing their support for judges in their demand for an independent judiciary. Actions of Egyptian security on that day illustrates the extent of police brutality and violence towards opposition forces. Those assau..

The son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who is widely seen as his father’s heir-apparent, met secretly last week with top White House officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Al-Jazeera reported Monday.

The talks came amid increasing criticism from the Bush administration of the Mubarak government for its crackdown on the political opposition, and Mubarak’s comments that he..

Nothing less than the rule of law itself will be on trial here tomorrow as two judges who refused to certify flawed elections last fall will face losing their judgeships on charges they have yet to hear fully.

The disciplinary hearing for Hisham Bastawisi and Mahmoud Mekki is being met with unprecedented resistance from at least a third of Egypt’s 6,000 judges. In recent days, the fate ..

One of the judges at the center of a conflict between the Egyptian judiciary and the government had a heart attack on Wednesday, throwing into doubt the future of disciplinary proceedings against him.

In the Nile Delta town of Shibin el-Kom, police fired teargas to disperse protesters who gathered at the law courts in solidarity with the two judges and with a campaign for judicial indep..

Judge Hisham Bastawisi gave an exclusive interview about his ordeal with the government and few hours later, we learned of the sad news of the Heart attack he suffered. We pray to God for his speedy and complete recovery. The following are the excerpts of his latest interview

Bastawisi Threatens to Sue Government in European Courts

The appeal court refused Thursday to hear the case of Ayman Nour, runner-up in last year’s presidential elections, effectively meaning that he will serve five years for forgery, a court official said.

The leader of Ayman Nour’s al-Ghad party, Nagi el-Ghatrifi, confirmed the ruling, saying it "reflects the Egyptian regime’s persistent rejection of any serious reform and its exploitation..

The disciplinary court trying reformist judges Hisham Bastawisi and Mahmud Mikki issued its verdict today. The court found judge Mahmud Mikki not guilty and was acquitted. Judge Hisham Bastawisi was reprimanded.

According to judiciary experts, the reprimand of judge Bastawisi will not directly affect his career but can compromise his chances of being promoted to higher posts. He c..

The Egyptian government wants to prevent the Muslim Brotherhood forming a parliamentary group by winning seats as independents in future elections. . . Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif said on Saturday.

The Brotherhood, an Islamist movement banned in Egypt but which says it is committed to political reform by peaceful means, won a fifth of the seats in parliament last November a..

In a nation where even holding hands in the park is frowned on, public displays of affection for democracy have become an acceptable and increasingly frequent passion in the street.

Egypt’s judges are the unlikely object of that passion, the new political sex symbol for activists in a nation whose authoritarian regime is slowly weakening.

"People see (the judges) and they get go..