Latest in Tag: Mubarak Highlight
Latest in Tag: Mubarak
Systematic sexual torture still continues under Morsi
State still uses sexual torture as a method of oppression
Egypt values Mubarak family fortune at $1.2 bn
The sum is made up of the value of the family’s assets in cash and in shares in companies in Egypt
Court orders Mubarak’s release yet again
Prosecution appeals the former president’s release on graft charges hours after the release issuance
Appeals for Mubarak and Nazif postponed
Former PM and president attempt to appeal fine for 2011 blackouts; former housing and tourism ministers released
Mubarak-era PM granted retrial
Court overturns jail sentence against former PM Ahmed Nazif, orders a retrial over charges of illicit gains
Mubarak sons release from prison ordered
Court orders release of ousted president’s sons in stock market manipulation trial
Judge orders release of Mubarak’s sons
Court adjourns case of killing demonstrators and orders conditional release for Alaa and Gamal Mubarak
Convictions in NGO trial ‘a disgrace’
Guilty verdicts and prison sentences in NGO trial draw international condemnation
“Show me the Money…”
The longing for freedom, justice and access to the wealth usurped by its rulers was a major driver behind the popular uprising that toppled former president Mubarak in early 2011. The Guardian’s famed “$70 billion” estimate of Mubarak’s family wealth, as provided by Princeton professor Amaney Jamal, did much to arouse the sensation of a …
El-Sunni case postponed to 18 June
Defence claims officer accused of killing protestors during the revolution was defending himself and his police station
Editor’s letter: Mubarak’s mess in today’s Sinai
Our very professional Bedouin driver takes us across the desert in South Sinai. Whenever he sees a vehicle passing by smuggling subsidised fuel for the informal black market, he gets very angry. At the first police checkpoint we approach, he stops, opens his window and immediately directs an angry question to the police officer, “Why …
Egypt and the IMF: Are we asking the right questions?
By Iris Boutros The focus of Egypt’s progress to secure the pending $4.8bn loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been on the size, timing, and conditions of the loan. Many have speculated on the impact of protracted negotiations, the economy, the currency, investment, price inflation and subsidy cuts. These questions are critical, but …
Lawyers file corruption lawsuit against judges
Lawyers implicate 22 judges in corruption during the 2005 parliamentary elections
Mubarak’s retrial postponed
Judge postpones trial to 8 June so evidence can be examined
Shafiq’s headquarters case postponed
Among the defendants are siblings Mona Seif and Alaa Abdel Fattah
Mubarak in detention for 15 more days
The Illicit Gains Authority has ordered the renewed detention of ousted president Mubarak
A Mufti for the Muslim Brotherhood
The mufti is a Muslim legal expert who is empowered to give rulings on religious matters. Every country that defines itself as Muslim has a grand mufti and an Iftaa institution that includes hundreds of muftis. These muftis have a specific education and must study an array of Islamic subjects, based on which sect of …
Rat race in the desert, should Egypt be running?
By: Rasheed Hammouda As the Gulf’s major players compete to be crowned the region’s finance king, Egypt may end up benefitting from being left out of the race entirely The race to be MENA’s top financial hub has been heating up over the past few years, a race that Cairo has been noticeably absent from. …
Celebrating Mubarak’s birthday
Today, 4 May, marks a date hated by many of my generation; Hosni Mubarak’s birthday. For 30 years, the “people” celebrated his birthday. The people in this case were mainly state media, publishing articles regaling our magnanimous dictator, as state TV aired songs praising his birth, mainly with a song well-mocked among the younger generation, …
Political Groups call for protests to support judiciary
Groups plan protests in all governorates as Morsi prepares for ‘Justice Conference’
What tactics are set to be employed by Egypt’s various political movements?
It should be clear, as pointed out in several of my previous articles, that Egypt’s political circuit consists of three primary forces. The first of these is the country’s Islamist movement, made up primarily of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the second is those forces that seek to revive Egypt’s “old” hegemonic state, with the army, …
Mubarak-era minister cleared of squandering public money
The prosecution had accused Maghrabi of profiteering during his time in office
The minister of ‘sexual harassment’
The Egyptian Minister of Information has done it yet again. In a press conference last Thursday, Salah Metwally Abdel Maqsoud repeated the innuendo that got him in trouble only a week before. Receiving questions on the journalistic content of state TV from a female journalist, who accused him of offering the same content as the …
Scores killed in 2012 under SCAF and Morsi
Over 160 killed, including 10 tortured to death and at least three children
Court accepts Mubarak’s appeal
The ousted president challenges court decision to keep him in custody for illicit gain charges
15 more days of detention for Mubarak
Renewed detention ordered by Illicit Gains Authority for charges of illegally amassing funds
Hagel presses Islamist-led Egypt on reforms
Hagel met with his Egyptian counterpart, General Abdul Fattah Al Sissi, and President Mohammad Morsi
In other words: Who is the alternative to the Muslim Brotherhood?
Before answering this question, ask yourself: Has the Muslim Brotherhood succeeded in running the country? I ask this as someone who considers himself relatively involved in the country’s political circuit, who does not seek to judge the Muslim Brotherhood based on his own political convictions; however at the same time I do not pretend to …
Youssef Boutros Ghali sentenced to 25 years
Ghali is sentenced to prison in absentia for squandering public funds
Cabinet reshuffle: Bad News
It was quite surprising to sense optimism in some people’s voices when they received news on the cabinet reshuffle, disrespectfully announced in a tweet by Morsi. All the signs indicate an even worse government taking over. First of all the prime minister remains, which means that inadequacy will continue to be the main characteristic of the new cabinet. For …