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EGYPT: 37 Ifex Members Call for End to Jailing of Journalists Under Criminal Defamation LawsDate:01/10/2008 37 International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) members have issued an appeal calling for an end to the imprisonment of journalists under criminal defamation laws in Egypt...
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Wednesday, 1 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EGYPT: Army calls protests 'freedom of speech, ' won't use force to dispel demonstratorsDate:03/02/2011 The Egyptian army recognizes mass protests consuming the country as the people's legitimate right to freedom of expression and will not use force against the demonstrators, an army spokesman said in a statement read on Egyptian state television Monday night local time in Egypt...
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Thursday, 3 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Blogger’s 3-Year Sentence a Blow to Free Speech Date:14/04/2011 The military court's sentencing of the blogger Maikel Nabil to three years in prison is a serious setback to freedom of expression in post-Mubarak Egypt, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Thursday, 14 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Concerns with Draft Broadcast LawDate:12/02/2009 ARTICLE 19 and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information have serious concerns with the draft Broadcast Law released by the Egyptian authorities...
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Thursday, 12 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Court of Appeal upholds acquittal of ANHRI director, two bloggersDate:06/07/2009 The court of appeal in Dokki, Giza upheld on 30 June 2009 the decision made on 31 December 2008 acquitting bloggers Alaa and Manal and ANHRI Executive Director Gamal Eid of the charges of libel and insult...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Court set to hear appeal in case in against Cairo News CompanyDate:16/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the outcome of an appeal in the case of the Cairo News Company (CNC), which was prosecuted for broadcasting film of demonstrations on 6 April 2008...
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Thursday, 16 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Court upholds heavy fine against bloggerDate:29/05/2009 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and Mosawah Association for Human Rights in Port Said expressed their strong condemnation over the unjust ruling issued on 26 May 2009 by the al-Zohour Court of Appeal in Port Said, which upheld an earlier decision issued on 20 January...
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Friday, 29 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Editor sentenced to six months behind barsDate:13/07/2009 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reiterates its deep contempt for the arrest of Yaser Barakat, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Al-Mogaz...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Egypt bitter about UNESCO voteDate:24/09/2009 Reporting from Cairo - Conspiracy theories hummed through Egypt's media and political elite Wednesday as Culture Minister Farouk Hosni returned home from Paris after facing accusations of anti-Semitism and losing a bitter fight to become the first Arab to lead the United Nations' cultural organization...
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Thursday, 24 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Egyptian censorship advocate is candidate to be UNESCO director generalDate:14/09/2009 Negotiations are getting under way in Paris to select a new director general for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to replace Koichiro Matsuura of Japan, who has held the position for 10 years...
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Monday, 14 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Egyptian rights group condemns Date:26/01/2009 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has condemned the fine handed out by an Egyptian court against blogger Mohamed Mabrouk that includes a 2, 500 Egyptian pounds as well as a further 40, 000 Egyptian pounds awarded in compensation to Trust Chemicals Company...
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Monday, 26 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Local report documents violations against 43 internet usersDate:30/04/2009 The prominent Egyptian NGO Hisham Mubarak Center for Law (HMCL) issued a report, titled Egypt on the Crossroad …2008, documenting the status of freedom of expression in the country during the year 2008, including the detention and harassment of bloggers...
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Thursday, 30 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Police harass journalist and his familyDate:17/07/2009 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) condemns the organized attacks led by police officers against Alaa Al Gamel, a reporter for the weekly Sout Al Ouma...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Revoke Ban on Strikes, DemonstrationsDate:28/03/2011 (New York) – The Egyptian cabinet’s announcement on March 24, 2011, of a new law banning strikes and demonstrations that impede the work of public institutions violates international law protections for free assembly and should be reversed immediately, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Monday, 28 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EGYPT: Rights organisation rejects media blockade in trialDate:18/11/2008 Egyptian human rights organisation has denounced decision of president of criminal court in South Cairo to throw media out of courtroom last Sunday, blocking reporting proceedings of trial of top tycoon accused of killing a Lebanese singer Susan Tamim...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: State security police force Internet café owners to report on customers visiting Date:12/06/2009 On 10 June 2009, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) reported that State Security Police are violating the right to privacy by spying on Internet users in Egypt, searching for individuals who exercise their right to express their political views online peacefully...
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Friday, 12 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Tough Measures Used to Gag Media in Run-Up to ElectionsDate:26/11/2010 Reporters Without Borders condemns an increase in measures to control news and information and suppress freedom of expression in the run-up to the parliamentary elections scheduled for 28 November...
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Friday, 26 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Young blogger freed after being held and mistreated for seven weeksDate:02/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders hails the release of cyber-dissident Dia'Eddin Gad, who was arrested at his home in the Nile delta province of Gharbiyah on 6 February because of the views he had expressed in his blog...
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Thursday, 2 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt: Internet : a weapon on mass revolution ?Date:06/04/2009 Since 6 April 2008, many Egyptian Internet users have been tirelessly communicating a message that their society must change...
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Monday, 6 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Elections monitor: Media restrictions; record campaign spendingDate:25/10/2010 The Egyptian government’s recent decision to shut down several satellite channels and place further restrictions on the media has raised domestic and international concern over freedom of expression in the run-up to parliamentary elections late next month ...
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Monday, 25 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EGYPT – Human Rights organizations praise pardon for editorDate:07/10/2008 The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights have praised the pardon issued by Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak for outspoken Egyptian editor Ibrahim Eissa, who was sentenced last month to two months imprisonment for reporting on the president's health...
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Tuesday, 7 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt court cancels restrictions imposed on SMS news alertsDate:29/11/2010 Cairo - An Egyptian court overruled on Saturday a decision by the telecommunications authority to impose restrictions on media companies that send out news alerts to cell phones...
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Monday, 29 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egypt cuts off internet accessDate:28/01/2011 Egypt appears to have cut off almost all access to the internet from inside and outside the country from late on Thursday night, in a move that has concerned observers of the protests that have been building in strength through the week...
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Friday, 28 January 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egyptian authorities must allow peaceful protest and the right to strikeDate:30/04/2011 The Egyptian authorities must abolish a recent law criminalizing peaceful protests and strikes, Amnesty International said ahead of tomorrow’s planned protests for International Workers’ Day in Cairo’s Tahrir Square...
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Saturday, 30 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egyptian court overturns journalists' prison termsDate:02/02/2009 Four independent Egyptian editors convicted of defaming the president and his close associates have had their yearlong prison sentences overturned by an appeals court, state newspapers reported Sunday...
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Monday, 2 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Egyptian Security Forces Arrest and Beat Peaceful ProtestorsDate:07/04/2010 Amnesty International has condemned arrests, detentions and violence meted out against peaceful protesters in Egypt, after more than 90 people were detained in Cairo for taking part in demonstrations calling for political reform on Tuesday...
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Wednesday, 7 April 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Lara Logan of CBS attacked by Egyptian mob in CairoDate:16/02/2011 A senior CBS correspondent is recovering in hospital in the US after she was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob while covering the Egyptian protests, the US network says...
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Wednesday, 16 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EGYPT: Cairo Institute for Human RightsDate:13/10/2008 The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) is an independent regional non-governmental organization founded in 1994...
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Monday, 13 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EgyptDate:30/09/2009 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedom of expression in Egypt...
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The struggle for freedom of expression in the 'new Egypt'"Arriving at Cairo airport earlier this week, the first time I had been to the country since the '25 January Revolution'...
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011Last Modified:
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Egypt's Reinstatement of Information Ministry is a SetbackDate: 12/07/2011 "The reinstatement of Egypt's Information Ministry that was abolished in February constitutes a substantial setback...
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011Last Modified:
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
TV Stations Multiply as Egyptian Censorship FallsDate: 13/07/2011 "In Tahrir Square, Egypt’s revolution is playing out before the world’s cameras; but off-screen another revolution is happening that may be just as important...
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Thursday, 14 July 2011Last Modified:
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Egypt: Egyptian tanks clearing out Tahrir Square Date: 01/08/11 "The Egyptian army deployed troops in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday and fired shots in the air to disperse remaining pro-democracy protesters...
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Monday, 1 August 2011Last Modified:
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Egypt: Mubarak Trial Will Be Televised, Judge SaysDate: 31/07/2011 "CAIRO — The trial of former President Hosni Mubarak will be held in a large hall that can accommodate six times as many people as a regular courtroom...
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Sunday, 31 July 2011Last Modified:
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Egypt: Military Intensifies Clampdown on Free ExpressionDate: 17 August 2011 "The military prosecutor's decision to prosecute the youth leader Asamaa Mahfouz for "insulting the military" is a serious escalation of efforts by military leaders to silence critical voices...
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011Last Modified:
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Egypt: Military officials jail critical bloggerDate: 31 October 2011 "Egyptian blogger Alaa Abd el-Fattah, jailed Sunday after he objected to interrogation by military prosecutors, should be released immediately and...
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Monday, 31 October 2011Last Modified:
Monday, 7 November 2011
Egypt: Media Coverage of the Military CouncilA report on media coverage of the Egyptian Military Council in November 2011, by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
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Friday, 6 January 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 6 January 2012
Middle East and North Africa: Historic Opportunity for Freedom of ExpressionDate: 16 December 2011 "ARTICLE 19 has closely monitored events in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as change has swept across the region in the last twelve...
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Friday, 16 December 2011Last Modified:
Friday, 6 January 2012
Egypt tycoon faces trial for insulting Islam after tweeting cartoon of bearded Mickey MouseDate: 10 January 2012 "CAIRO — A prominent Christian Egyptian media mogul faces trial on a charge of insulting Islam, lawyers said Monday, based on his relaying a...
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012Last Modified:
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Al-Azhar sheik proposes bill of rights, aiming to balance out Islamists in Egypt constitutionDate: 10 January 2012 "The head of Al-Azhar, the pre-eminent institute of Islamic learning in the Sunni Muslim world, put forward a Bill of Rights on Tuesday upholding...
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 13 January 2012
Egypt: A Year of Attacks on Free ExpressionDate: 11 February 2012 "(New York) – The climate for free expression in Egypt has worsened since Hosni Mubarak was ousted a year ago, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Saturday, 11 February 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Egypt court rejects second Mickey cartoon lawsuitDate: 01 March 2012 "An Egyptian court on Saturday rejected the second of two lawsuits brought by ultraconservative Islamists accusing a Christian media mogul of insulting Islam when he relayed a cartoon online of Mickey Mouse with a beard and Minnie in a face veil...
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Thursday, 1 March 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 8 March 2012