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ActivitesHuman Rights November 5, 2008

Rare Saudi Arabia protest tests limits of political speech

As hunger strikes go, the 48-hour fast that Fowzan Mohsin al-Harbi and 39 other Saudis plan to stage this week is not likely to have a dramatic outcome. Rather, says
ActivitesElection CoverageObama November 5, 2008

Obama Appeal in Muslim World May Tone Down Militants (Update2)

Obama’s race, Islamic family roots and promise of change give him an opening to blunt militancy rooted in decades of white colonial rule and sharpened by the 2003 U.S. invasion
Human Rights November 5, 2008

Tunisian Authorities Denies Medications For Former Political Detainee

The government in Tunisia refused to allow for the medical treatment of Abdullatif Buhgela; former political detainee, inside the country or abroad; therefore he went on hunger strike after feeling
Human RightsMB Blogs November 5, 2008

Blogger Mamdouh El Monayyar Released After Seven- Month Detention

North Cairo Court ordered blogger Mamdouh El Monayyar released today seven months later after arrest. El Monayyar was detained due to covering the events of April 6th strike in Mahalla
Fanatic Messages November 5, 2008

El Hashimi Calls For Popular Referendum On The Security Agreement

Tareq El Hashimi (Vice- President of Iraq, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party) called for a popular referendum on the security agreement stressing on the necessity of Iraqi national harmony
Activites November 5, 2008

Egypt: ‘clinically dead’ regime fumbles reform, harasses cyber-activists

Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party concluded its annual conference today with most commentators agreeing that it had failed to meet the meeting’s declared purpose of offering ‘New Thoughts for Egypt’s
Human RightsPalestine November 5, 2008

Israeli officer who shot a handcuffed young man in Bil’in acquitted

Press sources in the 1948 occupied lands reported that the Israeli military prosecutor Avihai Mandelblit decided Tuesday not to impose a harsh penalty on the Israeli border officer who deliberately
Election CoverageObamaPalestine November 5, 2008

Hamas: We’ll judge Obama by his actions not by his electoral agenda

e Hamas Movement stated Wednesday that it will judge the new American president Barack Obama by his actions and positions towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not by his electoral agenda.
Palestine November 5, 2008

Mishaal calls for a meeting between Hamas and Fatah to break the ice

Khaled Mishaal, the head of the Hamas political bureau, called on Monday evening for holding a meeting between his Movement and Fatah to break the ice in order to move
ActivitesElection CoverageObama November 5, 2008

US expatriates, Egyptian locals hail Obama the “American Dream”

American expatriates living in Cairo cheered Barak Obama’s win as they partied into the early hours, and Egyptian locals expressed satisfaction with the election of the first black US president.