Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Some 200 Egyptian journalists staged a sit-in at the headquarters of their syndicate on August 21, to protest the imprisonment of three of their colleagues and call for the abrogation of laws they said stifle press freedom and inhibit free speech.
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999
Due to the orders of Counselor Maher Abdel Wahed, the attorney general, the counselor Hany Abdel Gaber, the general attorney of Bani Suef prosecutions, decided to present the truck driver, who caused the death of 29 young men and women from Mari Girgis Church in Masr Al-Gedida on the Assiut-Cairo...
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Ever since the case first broke the news last fall, the response from the government has been uniform: No one was tortured at Al Koshh. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when, after a brief investigation that didn’t even involve the questioning of witnesses, prosecutors declined to bring charges...