Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2012
Middle East Online Website published an article on August 24 entitled “Egypt’s Morsi scraps preventive detention for publishing crimes” by Dominique Soguel. Below is the original text of the article:
Egyptian newspaper editor Islam Afifi was freed after a few hours in custody on Thursday, a...
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2012
Egypt State Information Service (SIS) translated the news story came in al-Ahrām on August 25 about President’s Mursī decree to cancel holding into custody measure in publishing crimes. The following is the text as it came on SIS:
Minister of Justice Ahmad Mekki told "Al-Ahram" newspaper on...
Date of source: Friday, August 24, 2012
Egypt’s President, Muhammad Mursī issued a law Thursday (August 23, hours after the court decision) to bar detention pending the trial of defendants involved in offenses related to the media, which means canceling temporary detention even in crimes listed in Article 179 [Chapter 14] of the penal...
Date of source: Friday, August 24, 2012
The Syndicate of Journalists, for its part, condemned the court verdict to remand ‘Afīfī into custody until the next session (September 16) and stressed that the Syndicate will have an urgent board meeting to discuss the matter.
Date of source: Friday, August 24, 2012
Giza Criminal Court witnessed a tense trial in the first court session of Islām ‘Afīfi, Editor-in-Chief of the Egyptian al-Dustūr newspaper.
‘Afīfī is accused of offending the Egyptian President in the media and publishing false news that would disturb public order.
The court ordered to remand ‘...
Date of source: Friday, August 24, 2012
Giza Criminal Court witnessed a tense trial in the first court session of Islām ‘Afīfi, Editor-in-Chief of the Egyptian al-Dustūr newspaper.
‘Afīfī is accused of offending the Egyptian President in the media and publishing false news that would disturb public order.
The court ordered to remand ‘...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Al-Yawm al-Sābi’ reports that leaflets inciting the killing of Christians have appeared in the city of Fāyīd. The city is close to the governorate of Suez, where three extremists had killed a young man for walking in public with his fiancée (he died in hospital on July 1).
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Ahmad Rihīm writes in al-Hayāh about a struggle for control over Egypt's mosques between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafīs.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd reports that several Coptic organizations, movements, and personalities have announced the foundation of the Coptic Advisory Council in order to unite Copts and face the difficulties of the political transition in Egypt, especially with regard to the recent wave of Islamist...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Ahmad al-Sa’dāwī reports Hānī Kamīl from the voter registration committee for the Papal elections as saying that the committee had received appeals against 25 voters. The total number of registered voters is 2,500.