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Last Thursday, 10th of August,
the jailed professor of sociology and head of the Ibn Khaldoun center, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, was released on
bail of 10,000 L.E
(2,857 US dollars) following a decision made by the general attorney of the state
security department, Hisham Saraya.
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The frozen Labour party challenged the administrative procedures used to freeze it and
presented a list of 19 candidates for the next parliamentary elections, while a group of law activists
called for the
resumption of the party’s activities.
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Investigations
into the
activities of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Director of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Social Research, revealed new
developments in the case. What the investigations and inquiries revealed is recounted in this article.
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State Security Prosecution searched the offices of the so-
called Organization
for Support of Egyptian Women Voters, a project affiliated to the Ibn Khaldoun Center.
Thousands of forged voting cards were
found. Ibrahim accepted funds of $200,00 from the EU in support of
the project, where the...
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From his jail in the United States, Shaykh Omar Abdel
Rahman, the spiritual leader of al-
Gamaa’t al-Islāmīyah in Egypt, issued a controversial statement, in
which he withdrew his support for their initiative to
abandon violence. This initiative was originally
launched in July 1997.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 11, 2006
The authors discusses the problem of kidnapping incidents that have spread in Egyptian society
in recent years.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 11, 2006
The author
reports on the spread of the phenomenon of violence in
Egyptian society.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 18, 2006
The article deals with the issue of imprisonment of journalists, namely Ibrāhīm
‘Īsā, the former editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper al-Dustūr, as
the author suggests that the government is partially in favor of jailing independent and partisan journalists.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 4, 2006
After Dr. Ahmad Kamāl Abū al-Majd’s proposition regarding amendments to the political constitutional, the Human Rights Council witnessed disagreements among its members. The following lines shed light on some of the Council members’ opinions.
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 9, 2006
Four
different opinions from Muslims and Christians, concerning the campaign launched by the
Egyptian Organization for
Human Rights to have religion data omitted from identity cards.