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50. A People’s Assembly Deputy Speaker calls for changes to the Islamic rules on inheritance and testimony [2]
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Dr. Zaynab Radwān, the deputy speaker of the Egyptian People’s Assembly’s controversial argument about women issues under Sharī‘ah is still creating heated discussions in the lay and religious milieus in Egypt. The following lines shed light on the different arguments.
12. 1st annual report by National Council for Human Rights frail, disappointing
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The first annual report of the National Council for Human Rights, which depended mainly on the reports of the more experienced civil society organizations and their demands and recommendations during the past 20 years, was so frail that it is acting as an organization strictly receiving complaints...
23. Questioned under investigation!
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 26, 2001 to الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 1, 2001
The 1990s witnessed a confrontation between international organizations trying to work in Egypt and law 32/1964, preventing founding NGOs receiving foreign finances. Since most of the activists are lawyers, they began digging inside the body of the law to find legal ways of doing this. Tens of NGOs...
16. Abu Se’ada: We didn’t ask to retrieve the cheque
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 17, 2000 to الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 23, 2000
[in reaction to an article of Al Usboa about The Egyptian Organization For Human Rights] The secretary general of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights defended his decisions and actions after the article, which was published 2 weeks ago in Al-Usboa, about "irregularities inside the...
26. No escape clause for rapists
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 8, 1999 to الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 14, 1999
Under the existing law, a rapist has the choice of either facing criminal charges or marrying his victim. Article 290 of the Penal Code stipulates that rape is punishable by death, but Article 291 states that if a rapist offers to marry his victim and she agrees, criminal charges are dropped and...

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