Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’
January 30th, 2012
Shahira Amin speaks to Egypt’s iconic blogger, who was released from jail last week
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January 26th, 2012
One year on, protesters are still demanding freedoms in the square that became a byword for the Arab Spring. Shahira Amin reports
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January 23rd, 2012
Campaign staffers for
Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq
confiscated tapes from the BBC on Saturday. The broadcasters had conducted a 40 minute interview with Shafiq, but the presidential candidate objected to some of the questions he was asked. Staff refused to let BBC reporters leave his house until the tapes had been handed over. According BBC journalist Mahmoud Abou Bakr, Shafiq said he was the only one who could decide whether the interview should be aired, whilst his campaigners insisted on editing out footage which affected their candidate “negatively.”
January 17th, 2012
A year on from the uprising which ousted Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians are still waiting for media reforms. Shahira Amin reports
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January 4th, 2012
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood today announced
plans to sue an independent newspaper for allegedly insulting the leader and its female members. Newspaper Al-Fagr published an article on 29 December by Mohamed al-Baz in which he reviewed a book written by Entissar Abdel Moniem, a female ex-member of the Brotherhood who slammed the organisation for their position on women. Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Mahmoud Ghazlan said that al-Baz slandered the group’s leader and its female members, and they would not tolerate defaming “honourable people under the veneer of free opinion.” The paper has also
come under fire recently for printing articles against the ruling military leadership.
December 30th, 2011
Egyptian security forces reportedly
raided the offices of
at least seventeen local and international NGOs yesterday. Authorities confiscated files, computers and records from the human rights and pro-democracy organisations. The raided organisations all allegedly receive foreign funding, and are now under investigation for violating Egyptian law. Staff of the organisations
were confined to their officers during the raid, and prevented from using their mobile phones or computers. US officials have condemned the attacks, and
demanded that the Egyptian government “resolve this issue immediately and to end harassment of NGO staff as well as return all property”.
December 13th, 2011
The case of prominent
Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah is to be be tried
in a civilian court, it has been reported. Egyptian authorities are said to have transferred the case state security prosecutors to investigative judges, which opens up the possibility of a trial in a civilian criminal court with the right to appeal. Abdel-Fattah was
detained 30 October after he refused to answer questions over his alleged role in the 9 October clashes in Cairo.
December 7th, 2011
The retrial of Egyptian blogger
Maikel Nabil Sanad has been
postponed to 14 December, making this the fifth time his case has been rescheduled. Maikel, who has been on hunger strike for over 100 days, was sentenced to three years in prison by a military court on charges of “insulting the armed forces” and “spreading false news” in a blog post published last March.
