صدق مجلس الشوري علي التشكيل الجديد للمجلس القومي لحقوق الإنسان، وذلك في جلسته، اليوم الثلاثاء، وقد جاء التشكيل الذي يضم 27 شخصية كالآتي: حسام الغرياني رئيسًا. عبد الغفار شكر نائبًا للرئيس. أحمد سيف الإسلام. أحمد حرارة. أميرة أبو الفتوح. إيهاب الخراط. حنا جرجس. صفوت حجازي. طارق...

 Washington Post, 8/26/12 - CAIRO — Egypt’s attorney general has referred an outspoken anti-Islamist former lawmaker for investigation by police prosecutors over claims he called for the downfall of the regime, according to a statement Sunday. The charge added to concerns that...

 AlAhram, 1/9/12 - Amnesty International’s 2011 Middle East report, Year of Rebellion: State of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa, released Monday 9 January 2012, in its chapter on Egypt sheds light on the violations committed by the ruling Supreme Council of Armed For...

Miami Herald, 6.13.11:  CAIRO -- Egypt's military rulers told human rights advocates Monday that military courts have sentenced at least 7,000 civilians to jail since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power, and they promised to review those cases to see whether the guilty verdicts should...

 رامى فخرى عبد الملك .. شاب جميل عندما تنظر إلى وجهه تجد البراءة والأمل ممتزجان بإبتسامته الجميلة المريحة التى كانت لا تفارق وجهه أبداً على حد قول صديقه المقرب هكذا شعرت أنا أيضاً وأنا أنظر لصورته رغم أننى لا أعرفه مطلقاً .. رامى يبلغ من العمر 27 عاماً .. والده متوفى ويعيش مع أمه وأخته الدكت...

4/20/11 - Cairo (CNN) -- Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was complicit in shootings of anti-regime protesters during a period of upheaval in the country, a member of an official fact-checking commission said Tuesday. "Whether the president gave the official order or remained silen...

NY Times, 4/9/11 - CAIRO — Egypt’s security forces shot and killed at least two protesters and wounded dozens before dawn Saturday in an attempt to disperse peaceful demonstrators spending the night in the capital’s iconic Tahrir Square, officials and witnesses said. The crac...

Freedom House, Washington - April 11, 2011 Freedom House strongly condemns today’s sentencing of Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil to three years in jail for criticizing the Egyptian military and calls upon the military tribunal to release him without harm and to cease the prosecution of peaceful...

 بقلم د. فوزى هيرمينا ابراهيم - الأقباط الأحرار بعد نجاح الاخوان في إختراق جميع النقابات المهنية ( مهندسين - أطباء - صيادلة - محاميين - معلمين - تجاريين - إجتماعيين ) والنقابات العمالية وإختراق نوادي أعضاء هيئة التدريس في الجامعات وإختراق القوي الصلبة للدولة ( الجيش - الشرطة - المخابرات ) وأخي...

Washington Post, 1/13/2011 WASHINGTON -- Twenty-five countries showed significant declines in democracy in 2010 with little serious resistance from the democratic world, the watchdog group Freedom House reported Thursday. It was the fifth consecutive year the Freedom House has reported a decline i...

 Freedom House, 1/5/2011 Freedom House condemns yesterday’s arrest of eight Muslim activists in Egypt, who were peacefully protesting in solidarity with Coptic Christians after the brutal New Year’s Eve church bombing, and calls on Egyptian authorities to release the activists imme...

 Almasry Alyoum, 12/11/2010 Minya— Egyptian security forces have prevented Christian religious figures from attending a meeting with Mohamed ElBaradei, former International Atomic Energy Agency chief, in Upper Egypt, said activists on Saturday. Ziad el-Eleimy, an activist from the Natio...

 Almasry ALyoum, 12/1/2010 Mohamed ElBaradei canceled his planned visit to al-Dostour‘s journalists, who are staging a sit-in at the Journalists Syndicate, after Syndicate Chief Makram Mohamed Ahmed denied him entry to the building. Al-Dostour journalists said the decision followed order...

 AFP, 12/1/2010 CAIRO — An Egyptian military court has sentenced a man to six months in jail for starting a Facebook group to advise would-be army recruits, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Ahmed Hassan Bassyouni was giving advice on how to enter the armed services and to prepare the necessa...

 المعروف عن لعبة صَلَحْ أن يكون أحد المشاركين واقفاً ويغطى جانب وجهه بكف يده ويعطى ظهره لباقى المشاركين فى اللعبة لكى لا يراهم ويُعَرِض كف يده الأخرى لهم من تحت ذراعه بحيث يكون الكفان فى جانب واحد من الجسم ويقوم أحدهم بضربه على كف يده الأخرى والتى يعرضها لهم وبعد الضربة عليه بمواجهة الاعبين وعل...

For Immediate Release - Contact: Bethany Haley or Ben Carnes 202-225-4576 November 29, 2010 - Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) has joined Representatives Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Emmanuel Cleaver (D-MO) in sending a letter to the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. welcoming the release of Egyptian blogger...

 يُعرف القانون المصرى الجريمة بأنها مخالفة قانونية مصحوبة بجزاء، وقسم القانون الجرائم إلى ثلاثة أنواع، جنايات وجنح ومخالفات، الجنايات يعاقب عليها بالسجن من 3 إلى 25 سنة إلى الإعدام، والجنح يعاقب عليها بالسجن من 24 ساعة إلى 3 سنوات، أما المخالفات فيعاقب عليها بالغرامات المالية. وعرف القانون الإ...

 ظهرت بعض الأغانى الفولكلورية والخفيفة بين المصريين وذلك بعد نكسة يونيه 67 وهزيمة الجيوش العربية هزيمة ساحقة أمام العدو الأسرائيلى، كانت صدمة المصريون من أكبر صدمات العرب جميعاً لأنهم فقدوا الرمز وفقدوا الثقة والأمل الكبير الذى عاشوا فيه وله سنين طويلة ، فقدوا الثقة فى القائد عبد الناصر الأسطور...

 11/16/2010 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday said Egypt should allow peaceful political gatherings, open media coverage and international observers in the run up to its November 28 parliamentary election. Egypt's rights record has been criticized by allies and internatio...

 BBC, 11/15/2010 The family of Ahmed Shaaban, 19, claims he was tortured by policemen from a station in Alexandria already implicated in the death of another young man, Khaled Said. Two officers are being tried in connection with that death. The authorities say Mr Shaaban committed suicide b...

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 يخطئ العديدون إن تصوروا أن القاعدة كيان له إطار سياسى قائم وتخطئ الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية إذا اعتقدت أن القضاء على القاعدة بالقوة العسكرية فقط.. ويخطئ إخواننا المسلمون أن اعتقدوا أن التنكر للقاعدة وأعمالها الدموية هو الأسلوب الأمثل للقضاء عليها، فمحاولة غسل أياديهم من أعمال القاعدة ليس الأسل...

Almasry Alyoum, 11/7/2010 The human rights committee at the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, issued a report on Friday in which it criticized Egypt for committing alleged human rights abuses. The report, which comes three weeks prior to Egypt’s 28 November parliamentary ...

The Star, 11/10/2010 In the West the slogan “the personal is political” raises few eyebrows. But in Egypt it can spark persecution, abuse, even jail time. Nobody knows that better than Hossam Bahgat, one of Egypt’s leading human rights defenders, who at 31 has spent almost half h...

 Washington Post, 11/8/2010 LAST APRIL, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak disregarded appeals from the Obama administration and violated his own public promises by renewing the "emergency law" that for decades has allowed security forces to prevent public demonstrations, break up poli...

 Translated from the original article by Karim Abdel Salam The Union for Change is crying out “We are your defenders," the Brotherhood Youth is waving signs proclaiming “Our Daughters are a Red Line," and the Egyptian Youth Movement is accusing both of falsehood. Pr...

 By Sarah Carr /Daily News Egypt November 2, 2010 CAIRO: An Egyptian activist has been awarded the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary activism by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in recognition of his work defending civil rights and personal freedoms in Egypt. HRW describes Hossam Bahgat, ...

 Bikya Masr, 10/25/2010 CAIRO: An International Report on Egyptian labor practices prepared by the Center for International Labor Solidarity, under the supervision of a Gules Benin, one of the leading experts in the field of labor issues in Egypt under the title “The Struggle for the rig...

 October 24, 2010 | LA Times Police and security agents patrolling Egypt's university campuses have for decades been as common as scruffy jeans and backpacks. But on Saturday the nation's High Administrative Court dealt a setback to the Interior Ministry by ruling that police should be prohi...

الجمعة، 22 أكتوبر 2010 - 01:07  كريم عبدالسلام ◄◄ جمعية التغيير تهتف: «إحنا رجالك».. وشباب الإخوان يرفعون شعار «بناتنا خط أحمر».. وحركة شباب مصر تتهم الطرفين بالتلفيق اللافتات الساخنة التى تدعو للمقاومة والتحرير ومواجهة الظلم والعدوان، هى هى لا تتغير، بص...

Almasry Alyoum, 10/4/2010 On a television talk show last Monday, National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) Director Moqbel Shaker denied Egypt is witnessing seditious activity while admitting the country is experiencing popular frustration. Shaker also condemned international pressure on Egypt to w...

Associated Press, 10/3/2010 - CAIRO — Egypt on Saturday rejected U.S. concerns over the recent cancellation of a human rights conference, a move that activists have called an example of Cairo's hostile attitude toward rights groups. The conference, organized by Egypt's One World Foundation ...

 Friday 1st October, 2010 ((Op-ed) Sally Sami - Amnesty International) The second session of the trial of two policemen accused of beating Khaled Said to death started in Alexandria, in Egypt on Saturday, marred by the heavy presence of security forces. The court was surrounded by unifor...

9/21/2010, CAIRO (Reuters) - Police beat a handful of demonstrators with batons on Tuesday at a protest of about 300 Egyptians gathering against what they said were plans to hand power to the president's son. President Hosni Mubarak, 82, in power since 1981, has not said if he will run in the 2011 ...

 LA Times, September 16, 2010 The brief detention this week of surgeon and political activist Shadi Ghazaly Harb by state security officials was the third incident of its kind in recent days to be condemned by human-rights advocates as authorities tighten their grip on dissidents in Egy...

News 24, 9/13/2010:  Cairo - An Egyptian activist snatched last week by suspected security agents was released after being quizzed for 32 hours about his political views, his employer the Cairo Institute for Human Rights said on Monday. Amr Saleh, a researcher at the non-governmental organisat...

New York Times, 95/2010 CAIRO — One by one, the guests at the Muslim Brotherhood’s annual Ramadan iftar banquet strode to the rostrum. A who’s who of Egypt’s opposition began hectoring the Islamist group. The Brotherhood, they said, by far the most muscular and influential o...

 9/10/2010, CIHRS Human Rights Defender and researcher, Amr Salah was kidnapped in front of his home at approximately 4 am on Thursday, September 9, 2010. Neither his relatives, nor his colleagues at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), have any information about his whereabou...

 هاني سمير تظاهر 300 من أقباط كندا وأمريكا مساء أمس - الخميس - أمام البوابة الرئيسية للبيت الأبيض بواشنطن بالتزامن مع لقاء الرئيس حسني مبارك ونظيره الأمريكي باراك أوباما لاستئناف المفاوضات المباشرة بين الجانبين الفلسطيني والإسرائيلي، وذلك للاحتجاج علي ما يعانيه الأقباط في مصر من مشكلات. ورفع...

8/29/2010 - Global Voices Advocacy On 1st July, 2010, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior (MOI) has reportedly established a special department to monitor Facebook activities and content in Egypt according to the administrative decision 765. Based on the Kuwaiti newspaper Aljarida, this new MOI depa...

 CAIRO Aug 31 2010 (Reuters) - An Egyptian man imprisoned last year for advocating Shi'a Islam and released last week under a court order was detained again a few days later, a human rights group said on Tuesday. Mohamed Farouk was among 11 minority Shi'ites arrested in April and May 2009 for ...

 Translated for CAA from the original article by Sara Alam published 8/27/2010 Quranist leader Dr. Ahmed Sobhy Mansour expressed fear that the authorities will again prevent his half brother Abdel Latif Said from accompanying Mansour's mother to the United States for treatment. According to hi...

U.S. News&Report, 8/20/2010  Amr Hamzawy is research director and senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. BEIRUT--Throughout most of the Arab world, poverty, unemployment, and illiteracy rates are on the rise while the quality of education, healthcare, and social sa...

 GulfNews, 8/27/2010 Not only is human rights on the top of agendas across the world, it is becoming the focal point of most Egyptians' conversations, from intellectual circles and official think-tanks to people on the street, making it the topic of the hour in the Arab world's most populous c...

 لجمعة، 27 أغسطس 2010 - 15:14 زعيم القرآنيين أحمد صبحى منصور كتبت سارة علام عبر الدكتور "أحمد صبحى منصور" زعيم القرآنيين عن مخاوفه من منع السلطات لأخيه غير الشقيق "عبد اللطيف سعيد" من السفر للولايات المتحدة لعلاج والدة "منصور" والتى لا تستطيع السفر لأى مكان دو...

 By Sarah Carr / Daily News Egypt August 16, 2010 CAIRO: A group of six human rights organizations has condemned the imprisonment and treatment of a political activist arrested in May during a demonstration. Ahmed Abou Douma was convicted on May 22, 2010 of assaulting police officers and ...

 AFP, 8/11/2010 - CAIRO — An Egyptian whose abuse by police led to two officers being jailed will be tried over a street brawl under a controversial law the government said would be limited to drugs and terrorism, a judicial source said on Wednesday. The case, which has brought ch...

 AHRNI - Cairo August 2nd, 2010 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information expressed today deep resentment of arresting 15 citizens in Alexandria for distributing and posting publications calling citizens for signing political reform demands. The citizens were arrested for allegation...

 (AP) – 8/6/2010 CAIRO — An Egyptian woman has given an unusual televised account to a private station accusing police officers of raping and robbing her in a rural part of the country. The allegations feed into a growing debate in Egypt about police abuse, which human rights ...

LA Times, 8/5/2010 Egyptian American human-rights activist and democracy campaigner Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who spent three years in self-imposed exile following intense pressure from the Egyptian government, has returned to Cairo. Ibrahim, a vocal critic of President Hosni Mubarak in recent years, ha...