Latest in Tag: Mubarak Highlight
Latest in Tag: Mubarak
Morsi-appointed prosecutor general sent to retirement
Former prosecutor general Talaat Abdallah is accused of planting bugs in his office
12 smuggled artefacts to return from London
Ministry of Antiquities intensifying efforts to prevent smuggling and subsequent sale of artefacts abroad
Sentence is revenge for 25 January revolution: Shura Council defendants
Defendants sentenced to 15 years for breaking Protest Law, begin procedures for retrial
Habib Al-Adly acquitted on money laundering and graft charges
Mubarakâs interior minister was initially sentenced to 12 years, but is acquitted in retrial
Amnesty International, Human Rights watch urge Al-Sisi to address ârights crisisâ
Statement tells new president not to âignore worst situation in decadesâ
Egyptâs Palm Hills real estate developer appoints new co-CEO
PHD posted a 9% rise in first-quarter net profit to EGP 49.7m ($7m) versus a year earlier.
Mubarak retrial postponed to Wednesday
Former president to make fourth court appearance of the week
Mubarak retrial postponed to Tuesday
Ousted president and his sons now don a blue suit to court, after being convicted of embezzlement in May
Egypt: The youth win
The pillars of Mubarak’s regime and the aged forces of Egypt’s counterrevolution were preparing to âimpress the worldâ (as goes the rhetoric that is used in privately owned, pro-Mubarak media) by a historic turnout at and unprecedentedly long queues outside polling stations in the first presidential election after Mohamed Morsi was ousted on 3 July. Supporters of …
Hamdeen Sabahy officially challenges preliminary results
Al-Sisi praises the role of the judiciary, security forces and the media in the electoral process
ElBaradei’s unknown known
Egypt’s media have been in campaign mode leading up to Monday and Tuesdayâs vote. Official, quasi-official and the social media are dedicating their undivided attention to the presidential elections with reports, interviews and analyses that tackle the two candidates’ platforms, credentials and implausible promises. Yet, an Egyptian Nobel laureate and former presidential hopeful, who, respect …
Boycotting the presidential elections, from Brotherhood to revolutionaries
The Daily News Egypt investigates the motives of different political factions and independent voters who are boycotting the presidential elections
Sabahy, Al-Sisi exert final campaign efforts before pre-elections silence
Presidential candidates officially halted their campaigns on Friday to enter period of pre-elections silence
In Pictures: Sabahy, Al-Sisi exert final campaign efforts before pre-elections silence
Presidential candidates Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Hamdeen Sabahy officially terminated their campaigns on Friday, the last day before the two days pre-elections silence, stipulated by Article 18 of the Elections Law. Sabahyâs campaign organised a rally in Abdeen Square in Downtown Cairo on Friday. The rally was attended by public figures endorsing his campaign and …
Al-Sisi routes Sabahy in expatriate voting
Expatriate vote results show 94.5% for Sisi, 5.5% for Sabahy, SEC says
Mubarak handed 3 years in âPresidential Palaceâ trial
Alaa and Gamal Mubarak to serve four years in prison, lawyer says judiciary is trying to save its public distorted image
âAgainst Youâ campaign launched by revolutionary groups against Al-Sisi
âAll revolutionary groups agree that Al-Sisi led a bloody coup against the revolution,â says Revolutionary Socialists leader
Coptic Christians and political activism before 25 January
Coptic Christians have, since 1952, lived according to what might be considered a tacit agreement between the church and the state, one whereby the state committed itself to the protection of Copts, the principles and rules of equality before the law, and equal opportunity, and the church reciprocated by absorbing the activities of Coptic Christians …
Court hears testimony from former assistant to interior minister
Defence team of Major General Hassan Abdel-Rahman Youssef claims January 2011 revolution instigated by foreigners, âmurderers and traitorsâ
There is a conspiracy to weaken the east: Al-Tayeb
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar shared his thoughts on revolutions in the Middle East, west and east relations, student violence and the tribal crisis in Aswan
Al-Beltagy fined for insulting president of Al-Zamalek club
The Muslim Brotherhood leader faces an array of charges in various other cases
Mubarak incitement trial postponed
On Monday Cairo Criminal Court will hear testimony from former state security chief
I will not accept American economic assistance: Hamdeen Sabahy
Sabahy stresses that legislative reform to fight corruption is one of his priorities
Urgent Matters Court bans Mubarakâs party from running in upcoming elections
Court bans leaders of now-dissolved National Democratic Party from running
âTrial of the centuryâ postponed
Court postpones Mubarak incitement case to 10 May to complete hearing case for one of the defendants
Mubarak incitement trial postponed until Tuesday
Former CSF head claims officers used restraint during the 25 January Revolution
Egypt economic growth to remain slow: IMF
AFP – Growth in Egyptâs economy is expected to remain sluggish this year as political uncertainty keeps tourists and foreign investors away, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. The economy of the Arab worldâs most populated country was forecast to grow by 2.7% this year after expanding by 2.1% in 2013, the IMF said in …
Egypt foreign reserves up at $17.414bn in March: Central Bank
Reuters – Egyptâs foreign reserves rose to $17.414bn in March from $17.307bn in February, the Central Bank said on Monday. Reserves fell sharply after a 2011 uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak but were lifted last year when Gulf Arab states gave billions of dollars in aid to the army after it deposed elected Islamist …
The 2014 Egyptian Constitution: Without accountability, checks or balances: Part II
The following is the second of a two part article by the Arab Reform Initiative, an independent research network, concerning the 2014 constitutionâs treatment of human rights and the separation of powers in the government. The first part, published yesterday, addressed the constitutionâs articles concerning the military and security apparatus. The second part, below, deals …
EU renews Mubarak asset freeze
Assets of former president, his sons and 16 others renewed by European bloc