1. Home / 
  2. Blogs for 2009

Months

Archive: 2009

Years

Archive

Human RightsParliament NewsTorture April 15, 2009

MP: Egyptian Regime Has No Intention to Punish Perpetrators of Crimes of Torture

Sabry Amer has described the Egyptian police regime as a regime that works on “torturing and terrorising citizens”. Amnesty International has asked Egypt to submit the statistics of the numbers
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine April 14, 2009

The futility of “peace talks” with Israel

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, whose term in office officially expired in January but remained at the helm of the Ramallah regime in order to spite off Hamas, reportedly
ActivitesHuman Rights April 14, 2009

Policy of kidnapping Egyptian Internet activists returns, after it stopped for a month

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information asserted today, that security organs have returned to the policy of kidnapping young Internet activists policy once again, especially after the inactivity of
Human RightsMB NewsPrisoners of Conscience April 14, 2009

MB Activist Arrested in Qena

Security forces have arrested Ramadan Werdany (Employee at Petroleum Company), who is one of Qena MB activists, after bursting into his house and searching it brutally
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine April 14, 2009

Anti-siege gov’t committee: The world to blame for mass killing of Gaza patients

The government committee to break the siege stated Tuesday that the international community’s inaction and passivity towards the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip which led to the death of
ActivitesJudges Activites April 14, 2009

Independence: We Didn’t Retreat, What Occurred Was Result of Governmental Constraints

Judicial Independence leader Mahmud El-Khodeiry affirmed in a statement to Ikhwanweb the absence of any retreat on the trend’s part despite its defeat in the Judges of Egypt elections and
ActivitesHuman Rights April 13, 2009

Islamist Govts Not the Enemy, Say Mideast Experts

Scores of Middle East and democracy experts released an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday asking him to focus more of his foreign policy efforts at making reforms
ActivitesPalestine April 13, 2009

Khalid Mishal on Hamas’ Growing Recognition

Paul McGeough has an interesting op-ed in the New York Times addressing the recent uptick in foreign delegation visits to Hamas’ Khalid Mishal. In an interview, Mishal stressed that despite
ActivitesHuman Rights April 13, 2009

Will You Be Angry? In Egypt, April 6 Falls Short of Hopes, Expectations

We welcome this guest post on the April 6 movement in Egypt by Chris Assaad, POMED’s Research Associate for Egypt and editor of our Egypt Country Page.
ActivitesHuman RightsYouth April 13, 2009

Violations Against Fayoum students

The families of the ten detained students from Fayoum University stressed that their children had been exposed to different forms of restrictions, intransigence and abuse as they were transferred from