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Since Joe Biden won the American presidential election, Egypt has been sending mixed messages on the issue of human rights.  It released 400 political activists, some of whom had been detained for over four years.  Then came the campaign of arrests that included the leaders of the Egyptian...
International condemnation for the vicious, oppressive campaign against the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) continues to roll in after the arrest of three of its leaders.  Foreign governments, the United Nations, and dozens of local and international organizations demanded the...
On Thursday evening, security forces arrested Jāssir ʿAbd al-Rāziq, the Executive Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).  
The information in this text is based on interviews Ms. Gavlak and Cornelis Hulsman made together with governor Adli Hussein and Bishop Marcos in March 2001 and the documents they provided. The article gives a background of the problems until around April 1.
A state of anxiety prevailed among Egyptian human rights activists concerning the sentence passed on Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Their worry was based on the fact this judgment reflects the first implementation of the statement of the Military Commander, which bans the receiving of any money or donations...
The US Commission for International Religious Freedom met with Bishop Marcos of Shoubra Al-Kheima and asked him about the rulings given in Al-Kosheh killings, underage Christian girls turning to Islam and about the non-inclusion of the Coptic period in the history syllabus. Coptic Catholic Bishop...
Colonel Dr. Mohammed al-Ghannam, previous director of Legal Research at the Ministry of Interior asked how the situation could deteriorate so dangerously around the turn of the years 1999/2000 while the Ministry of Interior was claiming they were in control. Despite a declaration from People’s...
An examination of the human rights situation in Egypt shows that it is even worse than one might expect, says a new report issued jointly by three human rights organizations on July 12.
A government counterattack has thrown the three-week old campaign against the new Law 153 for Associations and Civil Institutions into disarray. Social affairs minister Mervat Tellawi has led a public relations campaign to deflect international criticism of law, which aims to keep a check on the...
As the furor surrounding Law 153/99 for civil associations dies down following its ratification, everyone has settled down to wait for the executive regulations describing its implementation. "With any law, the way that it’s implemented is much more important than what’s theoretically written in...

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