Date of source: Tuesday, September 13, 2011
In a statement on his campaign page on Facebook, presidential candidate ‘Abd al-Mun‘im Abū al-Futūh condemned the lawlessness currently taking place in Egypt, blaming it on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), and urged a withdrawal of the Emergency law in 10 days at most. He warned...
Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2011
Egyptian revolutionaries, political groups and Islamists have called on Egyptians to take to the streets next Friday in a new protest against a recent decision to activate the long-standing Emergency Law, accusing the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) of breaking a promise to cancel...
Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2011
The storming of the Israeli Embassy on 9 September and violent clashes that followed between protesters and police have generated a huge reaction from political parties and movements across the Egyptian political spectrum. The Israeli Embassy crisis forced political groups to deal not only with...
Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2011
The Coalition of Revolutionary Forces (CRF), a small grouping of 40 radical youth groups which played an active role in organizing protests in Tahrir Square and against Israel in the early summer, has called for a mass demonstration on 30 September.
Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2011
Informed sources report a growing rift between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) over the military council's alleged intention to appoint the members of the constituent assembly tasked with drafting the new constitution after the parliamentary elections.
Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2011
The General Committee for Human Rights (GCHR), an affiliate of the Lawyers’ Syndicate, has denounced the authority’s recent reactions to Friday’s controversial attacks on the Israeli and Saudi embassies as well as the Giza security headquarters, pointing especially to the reactivation of the...
Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2011
While Israel have pitched into contacts with Egypt to prepare arrangements on the return of its Ambassador to Cairo, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the biggest fundamentalist bloc in society, are demanding a revision of relations with the Jewish state in connection with the Camp David Accords.
Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2011
The testimony of Field Marshal Hussein Tantāwī, the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, as a witness in the trial of former president Husnī Mubārak, has been postponed to September 24, judicial sources said yesterday.
Date of source: Sunday, September 11, 2011
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Saturday (September 10) represented the biggest event since the departure of former Egyptian President Husnī Mubārak, causing the direct revival of the Emergency Law in Egypt, as well as embarrassment to the Egyptian regime, which has seen new problems over containing the fallout. For his...
Date of source: Sunday, September 11, 2011
After the attack on the Israeli Embassy in Cairo on September 9, 2011, Prime Minister 'Isām Sharaf and his Cabinet handed their resignation to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) while the SCAF rejected the resignation.
The PM offered his resignation, admitting his negligence after...