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A Year in Review: The powers of Morsy versus the powers of SCAF
Daily News Egypt points out the similarities and differences between President Mohamed Morsy and the Supreme Council of Armed Forces

A Year in Review: Timeline of the transitional period
Daily News Egypt reviews 2012’s most important events on the Egyptian political scene

Cabinet clashes’ families seek justice on anniversary
Victims’ families suspect Brotherhood-SCAF collusion is main barrier to justice in Cabinet clashes
SCAF-instated CBE law modifications to be confirmed by Morsy
President Morsy will issue a declaration in a few days to amend 2 articles of the presidential decree number 64 for 2004 governing the Central Bank of Egypt, according to state-owned Al-Ahram. The cabinet has already approved the modification to the law that was issued by the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) last year. …

Army officers can temporarily arrest civilians
New law harkens back to SCAF rule

Morsy to pass law granting military power of arrest
Decision will be protected by constitutional declaration

The game no one wins
Granting yourself this level of power is so in the essence of fascism

One man, one vote, one time
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: You’d die to be immortalised by a zinger, wouldn’t you? Like Ed Djerejian”s after Islamists and pro-democracy groups fell out in Algeria — condemning 30 million to decades of misery, penury and slaughter. Some counted 200,000 corpses. The killing hasn’t stopped 21 years on. That North African torment began with Morsy-like …

Reliving Mohamed Mahmoud
Remembrance marches take place one year on
O’ Army, save us?
This is where we are probably heading and it frightens the hell out of me. Â The self-proclaimed Islamists refuse to see it. The situation in Egypt has taken a downturn in the last three months in ways that are hard to describe; prices of almost all basic food items have skyrocketed, and talks about a …

Name change angers activists
A road renamed after Field Marshal Tantawi upsets activists; authorities deny responsibility

Does the Islamists’ rise to power achieve American interests?
In light of the lack – and at times absence – of information, accurate political analysis has become extremely difficult to come by. Hence, we can say without any exaggeration that efforts of analysts in our country rely upon guesswork and whatever information has been scattered and spread as rumours, which find their way the …

Constituent Assembly dodges dissolution bullet
Assembly has enough time to finalise and put to referendum the draft constitution
Journalists protest government meddling
Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Shura Council said to have exceeded their authority
Review: Morsy’s praise of ex-military gang criticized
In almost all Egyptian newspapers, major columns have denounced President Morsy’s latest tribute to Tantawi and his team, and more than one writer has affirmed that his words are an insult to those who died during the revolution.
Some articles have amplified their criticism of the Shura Council for sacking Al-Gomhuria’s editor-in-chief with a simple word: out! The move, in their view, entails a persistent attitude to step over the Egyptian press and its pride.

Court to rule on Constituent Assembly dissolution next Tuesday
Assembly struggles to pass constitution before dissolution.

Amnesty International pushes Morsy on decree
Amnesty International joins other groups in calling Morsy’s record on human rights lacking

Rights groups condemn government for Maspero inaction
EIPR releases report detailing government failure to reduce sectarian tension

Protesters commemorate victims of Maspero massacre
March follows route taken by protesters a year ago, calls for justice and freedom

April 6 members attacked
“Make a trial for everyone in SCAF,” says Mohammed Adel a leader of the April 6 Youth Movement.

Remembering the Maspero massacre: one year on
A closer look at the massacre, and the unserved justice

Maspero Youth Union files lawsuit
March and protest planned to simulate Maspero Massacre and demand prosecution against SCAF

Families of Maspero victims attack Maspero Youth Union
The Union of Maspero Victims’ families accuses the Youth Union of collecting donations on their behalf

Copts remember Maspero victims at Cathedral
Pachomius: “We live in a new era of martyrdom.”

Amnesty International calls for protection of human rights
NGO presses Egyptian government to for comprehensive set of laws to protect human rights

Families of Maspero victims seek justice
Maspero Youth Union considers lawsuit against state-owned newspaper

Rights’ groups demand “virginity tests” case reopened
Claimants resort to African Commission after military courts deny tests occurred

8 April officer’s mother grieves the ill-treatment of her son
Arrested army officer faces mistreatment in prison

Al-Sisi decides on new SCAF formation
Still no new military intelligence director

Maspero trial postponed to 2 October
Coptic activists accuse the state of double-standards towards the religious minority