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CNN Presents Classroom: Egypt: A Test Case for Democracy

Wednesday, November 30, 2005; Posted: 8:29 p.m. EST (01:29 GMT)

 
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Mubarak’s Political Advisor , Al Baz: We are not Worried About The Muslim Brotherhood’s Rise ; Nevertheless We Will not Permit them to Have a Political Party

Ahmad Hassan Bakr and Salah Bedewi. 29/11/2005

In the first comment by the Egyptian presidency on the big successes of the Muslim Brotherhood in the General Elections ,  Dr Osama Al Baz , the Political Advisor of the E..

In Talkha constituency, of el-Daqhlia governorate, a supervisory judge threatens to call off voting if voters were not allowed to give ballots. On the other hand, clashes were erupted between the barred voters and policemen. Tear gas canisters were lobbed to put riot down. In addition, reporters of the news channels, of el-Hora and el-Arabia, were not allowed to cover these troubled instances. ..

Voting Process in Dametta
 
At 10 am, thugs hired by the National Democratic Party attacked monitors of human right organizations, in el-Saila constituency.
 
In el-Zarqa constituency, the Brotherhood’s representatives were not admitted to polling stations. The NDP voters are only allowed to cast vote. In Abu Galal area, microbuses packed with thugs are ready to head for ..

The rioters used their white weapons in order not to allow the electors to give their votes in the constituency of El Nasrya Primary School (women), in the first constituency in Zakazik governorate (in which dr. Mohamed Morsy the head of the constitution of the brotherhood candidates himself.) the police didn’t react against the rioters who attack the committees and close them.
In the const..

The collective voting in the constituency of Abo Keber in (Sharkya), Which is one of the hottest constituencies, begins as a result of the direct support of the (NP) candidates from the Police committeein the party; the candidate is one member of the committee. many buses have been noticed outside the governorate with a lot of people in them for the collective voting and the rioters for the NP ..

Some Voting Irregularities
 
The Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate in el-Matria constituency of el-Daqhlia governorate was prevented from casting his vote in the polling station of Daqhla School. Clashes were erupted outside polling centers in Nabroh City. In addition, monitoring judges are currently subject to potential bodily attacks.
Moreover, 16 of the Brotherhoods were abducted..

Polls in Sohag
 
Sohag, an Upper Egypt governorate, witnessed many irregularities. In Bandar Sohag constituency, the representative of the Brotherhood’s nominee in polling center of el-Taisir School was put under arrest. In some polling stations, veiled women were prevented from casting votes. In el-Shahed Abdel Monam Rydal School, state security officers harassed female voters thre..

 - Riot police cordoned off polling stations  
in this Nile Delta village Thursday to prevent people from voting as
Egypt entered the final round of legislative elections that have
been marred by violence and allegations of fraud.
        The ability to vote varied from town to town among the nine  
provinces where ..

Egyptian Cops Detain 1,610 Muslim Brotherhood Members

It looks as if Mubarak isn’t going to be saguine about
the Ikhwan’s electoral gains.

Egyptian police have detained 1,610
members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the two days
before the last stage of voting in parliamentary
elections, a Brotherhood spokesman said on Wednesday.

Most of the de..

Daqhlia: Judges are Assaulted, Polling Boxes are Burnt
 
Backed by security officers, a group of thugs bodily attacked three judges in Belqas constituency; Khaled Abdel Aziz, Hany Mokhtar and Ahmed Abdel Aziz.  The assaulted judges affirmed that policemen witnessed the thuggery instances but gave the cold shoulders to them. Accordingly, the three judges lodged complaints against..

In Egypt, satellite TV is changing the nation
Sharon Schmickle

As Egyptians vote today in the latest stage of their parliamentary elections, a hidden force behind the combative campaigns is represented by a cluster of satellite dishes rising from the desert just outside Cairo.

Nilesat’s clean and quiet dish farm seems an unlikely place to stage a revolution. But the ..

Egyptian police attack reporters covering election

 Egyptian security forces attacked a number of local and foreign journalists covering an increasingly troubled parliamentary election on Saturday and confiscated or damaged their equipment.

Thousands of riot police sealed off polling stations to anti-government voters in many areas. They also arrested over 800 supporters o..

Egyptian politician denies forgery charges

By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD

The runner-up in Egypt’s presidential elections took the stand in his trial on forgery charges Tuesday, accusing the government of trumping up the case to ruin his political career.

Prosecutors are seeking the maximum 15-year sentence against Ayman Nour on charges he forged signatures needed to register..

The Egyptian Voter, Unbowed

A “democracy with fangs.” Mr Anwar Sadat’s unparalleled description of ’his’ no-nonsense kind of democracy immediately came to mind this week as the curtain dropped on the second Act of parliamentary elections. In some districts, thugs hired by ruling party candidates attacked voters while police looked on or looked the other way. In others, police actively ..

El-Daqhlia’s vote Inflames

In Bandar el-Mansora, more than thirty thugs, who are equipped with
swords
and machetes, attack electorate and Brotherhood’s supporters under the
watchful eye of police. Moreover, polling stations are completely
closed
off. Two Brotherhood’s supporters were abducted. None but the
representatives of the National Democratic Party’s candid..

El-Sharqia: Circulated Ballots Reappear

In el-Sharqia governorate, a Brotherhood stronghold, the so-called
circulated ballot, that is a marked ballot given to a voter to be cast
and
to bring the blank one out and so on, reappears in the third round of
polls. It is already used in the first constituency.

In Mashtol constituency, the beginning of vote was delayed t..

Detentions in Kafr el-Sheikh

On the polling day of the ongoing parliamentary polls, seven
representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidates were detained.
Polling stations are blocked, in addition. Voters, furthermore, are
kept
out. Female thugs are present outside polling centers to harass female
voters. This situation recurs in all voting districts of the
..

In el-Daqhlia: Polling Stations are Cordoned

On the polling day of the third round, police cordon polling centers
in
Bandar el-Mansora constituency, lifting it when the National
Democratic
Party voters show up.

Thugs, equipped with swords and machetes, prepare themselves to
provoke
clashes with the supporters of the Brotherhood outside the polling
cen..

Zarqa: Fraud Begins

In preparation for today’s round of parliamentary vote, six truckloads
of
riot police deployed yesterday at Daqhla village which contains four
of six
polling stations of Damita governorate.

Daqhla, the home town of the Muslim Brotherhood’s nominee, Muhammad
el-Falahgy in Zarqa constituency, witnessed two days ago a large-scale
dete..