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Activites January 25, 2008

Support the country, not the dictator

For decades, the United States has faced a fundamental national security dilemma: How does it address the threats posed by global terrorist networks without further entrenching dictators and antidemocratic governments?
ActivitesPalestine January 25, 2008

Anti Gaza Blockade Protests Unabated

Dozens of demonstrations were staged in several Egyptian governorates on Friday afternoon, Jan, 25th, calling for immediately lifting the blockade imposed on Gaza and supplying this strip with fuel, electricity
Human RightsMB NewsMilitary TribunalPrisoners of Conscience January 25, 2008

MB Military Trial Adjourned till Sunday Jan, 27th, Defense Pleading Resumed

The military tribunal trying forty Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders topped by Executive office members Khairat Al-Shater and Mohamed Ali Besher,
Palestine January 25, 2008

Mubarak under pressure

It has been an uncomfortable few days for President Husni Mubarak, watching anxiously as the crisis in Gaza spilled over onto his territory, focusing intense and unwelcome attention - both
Human RightsPalestine January 25, 2008

IOF blocks entry of shipment of medicine to Gaza

The IOF troops besieging the Gaza Strip have refused to allow the entry of a shipment of medicine and other medical supplies, collected by1948 Arabs, into the Strip.
Human RightsPalestineReports January 25, 2008

UN: Gazans are getting poorer because of the suffocating siege

Maxwell Gaylard, the UN humanitarian coordinator in the occupied Palestinian lands, stated that the Palestinians in the impoverished Gaza Strip are getting poorer and their crises are deteriorating because of
Human RightsPalestine January 25, 2008

UN Human Rights Council calls for immediate lifting of Gaza Siege

The United Nations Human Rights Council Thursday expressed its grave concern at Israel’s repeated military attacks carried out in the Palestinian territories, particularly in Gaza, which resulted in loss of
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine January 25, 2008

Egyptian MPs visit Gaza, Bahraini Mps call for lifting the siege

Dr. Ahmad Bahar, acting speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) received on Thursday a delegation of Egyptian MPs representatives of the Karama Party headed by Hamdain Sabah, the party’s
Human Rights January 25, 2008

view: Egypt or Turkey?

Turkey is doing things it hasn’t done in fifty years. In 2001, the Turkish Parliament amended 34 articles of the Constitution granting and protecting civil and political rights; cementing ‘institutions
Human Rights January 25, 2008

The Islamist opposition online in Egypt and Jordan

An October report from Reporters without Borders indicates that the level of media freedom in both Egypt and Jordan has deteriorated over the past year following the jailing of several