Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 19, 2005
The Egyptian Minister of Interior, Habīb al-‘Adlī toldDr. Ahmad Kamāl Abu al-Majd, the Deputy Head of the National Council for Human Rights that all detainees who were proven to represent no threat to society will be released.
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 29, 2002
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights issued a report criticizing the new law for civil organizations. It believes that the law puts hard restrictions on the establishment and activities of civil organizations
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 11, 2002
Al-Midan was the only Egyptian publication giving attention to the petition of the US Copts Association about al-Kosheh. It is customary for the US Copts Association to prepare petitions, demonstrations or other activities prior to a visit of president Mubarak to the US.Muslim-Christian-Jewish...
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 6, 2002
The general secretary of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) said that there is only one Egyptian prisoner in XY-camp in Guantanamo in Cuba. He added that the recent news the EOHR had is that the family of Ayman Al-Zawahri is still alive. He said that American authorities are about to...
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2002
The Swedish authorities had received three written guarantees from Egypt before handing over the Egyptian fundamentalist leader Ahmed Agiza. The first is that Agiza will not be tortured when he comes back to Egypt, the second guarantee is that Agiza will be re-prosecuted by non-military courts. The...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 20, 2005
A critique of the controversial work of researcher Yustina Saleh on the 2nd article of the Egyptian constitution, which states that sharī‘a is the main source of law.
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 21, 2005
It is expected that Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm will announce tomorrow in Alexandria, during a three-day conference, his intention to set up an Egyptian network for the advancement of democracy. Reports describe the network as part of a plan known as the Atlantic Network for Democracy.
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 13, 2004
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom demanded that Egypt should financially compensate Egyptian Jews who immigrated to the US for the loss of their possessions and money. But this very same committee has ignored Egypt’s demands to reopen the investigations concerning the killing and...
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 17, 2004
The visit of the American Commission on Religious Freedom to Egypt is this time done under the pretext of investigating the conditions of Baha’is, Jehovah Witnesses and the banned group of the Muslim Brotherhood. The American Commission claims that these groups are persecuted. Remarkably strange,...
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 14, 2004
The article is an interview with the wife of Aboud Al-Zomor, Wehda, about Sheikh Aboud and Tareq Al-Zomor’s suspended release and their attitudes towards the cease-violence initiative.