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Reform Issues March 27, 2007

Low turnout for Egyptian referendum

Egyptians have been trickling in to vote in a referendum on constitutional amendments which would help the government exclude opposition groups from the political system. Hosni Mubar
Election Coverage March 27, 2007

Referendum Day

Al-Jazeera is reporting "very low" turnout in the referendum voting so far, especially in Cairo where voting would usually be expected to be high (Kefaya is also reporting weak turnout
Reform Issues March 27, 2007

3000 protest Mubarak’s amendments in Alexandria

Around 3,000 activists demonstrated in Alexandria’s Manshiya Square today for two hours against Mubarak’s authoritarian constitutional amendments…
Reform Issues March 27, 2007

US anti-Mubarak protests

Today, activists demonstrated in DC and NYC on behalf of the detainees in Egypt, and to express their opposition to Mubarak’s dictatorial consitutional amendments. Click on the photo below to
Human Rights March 27, 2007

Detained protestors released

Police released the remaining Kefaya activists in custody today in the afternoon, after they spent their night in the Qattamiya desert, locked up in two prison trucks. There were two
Fanatic Messages March 27, 2007

Who Is Going To Defend Us?

Who Is Going To Defend Us? To Silence Its Voice Hisham Mubarak Law Center Is Under Attack Defending the victims of human rights violations is one of the most significant
Reform Issues March 27, 2007

Star Academy and Hosny Mubarak

Intellectuals in the Middle East and intellectuals in Europe and the US interested in the Middle East are so funny, so optimistic and so opportunists (in the negative sense)…I remember
Eye on IOF March 27, 2007

’My son lived a worthwhile life’

It is one of the poignancies of Tom Hurndall’s short life that he had gone to Gaza in search of a story, and ended up becoming it. A 21-year-old photography
Election Coverage March 27, 2007

The Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights Referendum Day, Initial Report

The Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights
Eye on IOF March 27, 2007

Sorrows of Zionism

With the future of reflexive American support growing more and more uncertain in the wake of Mearsheimer & Walt, Baker-Hamilton, Carter — and a growing number of critics within the