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Blocking An Egyptian Blog On An Emirati Host The Blog Advocates For Reform And Slams

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said today that pursuing callers of change and democratic reform did not include arbitrary detention , but also reached their sites and blogs

Human rights condemn the exclusion of Al-Shater and other MBs from the July releases

The political detainees were denied release despite having spent half their sentences and suffering from diseases which entitles them to release.

Mubarak avoids addressing presidential election issue

Mubarak spoke about the economy, democracy, human rights, the Palestinian question, and Egypt 's place in the world. However details concerning the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for 2011 were notably

Ofer prisoners initiate protest steps against Israeli violations

Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli ofer jail started protest steps against the Israeli prison authority's violations of their rights.

To Ban or Not To Ban the Burqa

The proposed bill makes a big fuss of what is a small, even a negligible, phenomenon. What’s needed are jobs, housing, infrastructure, and especially education in deprived areas of France,

Israel’s parliamentary mob

That was 1967, when the Knesset included members like Levy Eshkol and Pinchas Sapir, David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan, Menachem Begin and Yohanan Bader, Meir Yaari and Yaakov Chazan, for

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 2009 Annual Report – by Stephen Lendman

Today, 1.5 million Gazans struggle to rebuild their lives, "in spite of sustaining permanent disabilities, losing loved ones or becoming homeless" after war under siege – collective punishment in violation

Haneyya: The siege must be broken by an international resolution

Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya said Saturday that the Freedom Flotilla convoy is carrying a strong message that this blockade which was imposed unjustly by an international resolution must be broken

Tadamun: Palestinian prisoner taken to interrogation center

Palestinian prisoner Nidal Al-Surkaji has been moved from the Hadarim jail to Petah Tikwa interrogation center, a lawyer for the international Tadamun society for human rights said on Sunday.

Electronic monitoring of elections launched

The Arab Council and New World Organizations for human Rights launched an electronic network to monitor elections in Egypt .