Latest in Tag: Al-Dostour Party Highlight
Latest in Tag: Al-Dostour Party

Al-Dostour Party receives torture complaint from detained member
Political activist Hamdy Qeshta reported verbal and physical assaults inside Boulaq police station

Presidentâs office impugns media report that Sisi ordered suppression of 25 April demonstration
Political forces renew call for 25 April demonstrations to contest Tiran and Sanafirâs sovereign transfer

Al-Dostour party condemns arrest of its board member in Ismailia
Abdelazeem is charged with disturbing national security and publishing false news through Facebook

Political parties wary of public ire over police abuses
Al-Dostour Party warns that police abuses will cause hostility to current political regime

Court extends âanti-torture t-shirtâ detaineeâs detention for 24th time
Prisons are cemeteries and we will continue the battle against arbitrary detention, says detaineeâs brother

Mahmoud Husseinâs detention expected to be renewed for 24th time
Teenage âtorture t-shirtâ detainee hopes his turn to freedom will take place following activistsâ release

The disappearance of Ashraf Shehata for 630+ days
“I believe National Security has him, but theyâre claiming he dumped me and the kids,” says his wife

Al-Dostour Party to hold internal elections on 6 November
Elections mark second attempt to choose president and administration

Al-Dostour Party in dispute over parliamentary electionsâ participation
Free Egyptians Party slams accusations of âbuying candidatesâ

Khaled Dawoud resigns as Al-Dostour Party spokesperson
Dawoudâs resignation follows the party chairmanâs

Al-Dostour Party launches campaign on political detainees, torture, forced disappearances
âIronically, we keep holding on to presidency’s fake promises of release,â says politician

Al-Dostour Party halts internal elections over votersâ database issue
Four electoral campaigns continue competition, present programmes

Al-Dostour Party prepares party elections with 4 candidates
Prominent members Shukrallah and Ismail absent candidates list

A butterfly effect could turn things upside down: Hala Shukrallah
Daily News Egypt spoke to Shukrallah about the future of politics in Egypt, and whether the rule of the military is serving democracy

Parliamentary elections update- 14 February
Al-Wafd condemns state interference Al-Wafd Party’s chairman El-Sayed El-Badawy accused the electoral coalition called “For the love of Egypt” formed by military expert Sameh Seif El-Yazal (formerly Kamal El-Ganzoury’s list) of “choosing their candidates by orders from the state’s sovereign entities”, contradicting previous agreements. However, El-Badawy did not rule out possible alliances between the two …

Young politicians demand resignation of interior minister over repeated violence
Why does the state keep fighting the young? they ask
2 more Islamist parties boycott elections
The Building and Development Party and Al-Wasat Party have announced they will boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections and will not support any entity. The Building and Development Party, the political arm of Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya, said in a statement Monday that the country only sees âstaged elections, which will increase the divisions between the Egyptian peopleâ. …

Young political parties and the election game: To play or not to play?
Party members eager to reflect revolutionâs demands for democracy by participating

North Sinai residents to go through with open strike against curfew hours
Citizens plan to boycott elections and file lawsuit as they fear protests, says Al-Karamah party member in Sinai

North Sinai political, civil groups demand lift of curfew hours
Warnings of open strikes and electoral boycotts if ignored by government

Al-Sisi requests meeting with political heads
Al-Dostour apologises, Al-Karamah and Popular Current ‘uninvited’

Popular Current will not run in parliamentary elections
Young successors of Hamdeen Sabahy cite lack of fair representation

Parliamentary coalitions begin formation for elections
Political parties regroup in preparation for upcoming parliamentary elections

Al-Dostour Party supports lawsuit against Protest Law
Proceedings for the lawsuit against controversial law to take place on Tuesday

Extension of voting in presidential elections stirs controversy
Hamdeen Sabahy continues in presidential race despite calls for his withdrawal

Al-Sisi meets with young investors, businessmen and SME owners
Al-Dostour Party holds events in support of Hamdeen Sabahy in different governorates

Parties and civil society organisations decry marginalisation of women in country’s transition
Statement calls on committee tasked with amending election legislation to hold dialogue with women rights groups

Parties choose between Al-Sisi and Sabahy
The Free Egyptians Party is backing the former defence minister; the Justice Party âfully backsâ Sabahy

Political parties, groups support calls to drop Protest Law
Many people have been arrested and sentenced to jail time under the controversial law

Al-Dostour Party backs Sabahy for president
âI vow to cancel the Protest Law and grant amnesty to all nonviolent detainees harmed by this law,â Hamdeen Sabahy says