Egypt: Award-Winning Blogger Among New Arrests

Egyptian security officials arrested 11 more political reform activists, including an award-winning blogger, Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam, Human Rights Watch said today. This brings to more than 100 the number

Stomping on Democracy in Egypt

For a very brief moment in downtown Cairo Thursday, there seemed to be a small flowering of democracy, the kind of popular expression of will that the Bush Administration has

The President of Iran’s Letter To President Bush

Mr George Bush, President of the United States of America For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions that exist in the international arena

When Judges Are Beaten

In Egypt we don’t have any confidence in US policy because it is a contradictory policy that pays lip service to democracy while supporting dictatorships. We have confidence in the

Judges tried in absentee, Egyptian security beat protesters in Cairo

State Security police in massive numbers surrounded all entries to downtown Cairo to prevent large number of Egyptians who came from all over the country to show their solidarity to

Are Judges The True Hope For Egyptian Reform?

Will judges be for Egypt what the electrician Lech Walesa was for Poland: leaders of the first independently organized group in society that successfully challenges and then breaks the government’s

Jordan Arrests 30 Muslim Brothers on Charges of Smuggling Katucha Rockets

Jordan Arrests 30 Muslim Brothers on Charges of  Smuggling Katucha Rockets and Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Regards This as a Conspiracy Between the Government and Fath Movement Designed to Foil the

Gamal Mubarak Denies Egypt Reneging on Reform

The son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied accusations from the opposition that the regime was not delivering on his father’s promises of reform. "I say this is not true,"

Egypt: ECWR Statement on The Arrest of Three Female Activits

The Egyptian Center for Women’s Right (ECWR) issued statement in the aftermath of the events of May 7th, where several activits were arrested by state security police during their show