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CAIRO: The April 6 Youth Movement has launched a new anti-regime campaign called “Egypt is Our Homeland, Not Theirs,” founding member Asmaa Mahfouz told Daily News Egypt Friday. The campaign targets youth and aims at raising awareness of political rights and explaining the seven demands for political reform initiated by the National Association for Change …
CAIRO: “I am determined to overturn the death sentence against Mahmoud Sayed Essawy,” charged with the murder of two university students in 2008, lawyer Ahmed Gomaa told Daily News Egypt Wednesday. “I am 100 percent sure that the Cassation Court will accept my plea,” Gomaa added. On June 30, the Giza Criminal Court sentenced Essawy …
CAIRO: The Journalists Without Rights movement called on Syndicate Chairman Makram Mohamed Ahmed Tuesday to intervene in a crisis that broke out between a number of reporters and the editor-in-chief of weekly independent El-Nahar newspaper. Fifteen El-Nahar reporters filed a complaint on July 11 to Ahmed against Osama Sharshar, accusing him of mistreating them, the …
CAIRO: The Lawyers’ Syndicate ended its nationwide strike until a court verdict is announced next month in the case of two lawyers sent to prison for attacking a prosecutor. No escalation measures will be taken until the court pronounces its verdict next month, lawyer Mohamed Abdel-Rahman said Monday. The strike began last month in response …
CAIRO: A lawyer who was given a prison sentence for attacking a local prosecutor in Tanta, gave a statement at a closed session during his retrial Sunday. Lawyers Ehab Saey El-Din and Moustafa Fatouh were both handed the five-year sentence in the same case. The judge responded to Saey El-Din’s request during the hearing, ordering …
CAIRO: Wael El-Ebrashi, editor-in-chief of independent Sawt El-Umma newspaper, will stand trial Sunday before the North Giza Criminal Court for charges of inciting public opinion against the new real estate tax bill. Samar El-Dawi, a reporter for the newspaper, will also go on trial for similar charges. On June 14, an appeal court …
CAIRO: Accusations of atheism spring from internal disputes over personal interests, Magdy El-Dakkak, editor-in-chief of state-owned weekly October magazine, said Thursday. A crisis recently erupted within October magazine when 11 journalists filed a complaint before the Public Prosecutor, accusing El-Dakkak of insulting God and the Muslim Prophet Mohamed. “They are a group of people who …
CAIRO: Lawyers will hold a full nationwide strike Sunday during the re-trial of Ehab Saey El-Din and Moustafa Fatouh, former syndicate board member Montasser El-Zayat told Daily News Egypt Thursday. The Lawyers’ Syndicate’s general assembly decided in an advisory meeting Wednesday that lawyers will also hold protests outside all courts and prosecution offices …
CAIRO: The government has always procrastinated in submitting periodic reports on the human rights situation in Egypt before United Nations committees, according to a recent report which claimed that the government only published two such reports between 2000 and 2009. At a press conference held Tuesday, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) released its …
CAIRO: Lawyers in Gharbeya governorate may hold an open strike if the head of the Judges’ Club opens an investigation into an incident where hundreds of lawyers held the Attorney General in his office, lawyer Mohamed Suliman said Sunday. “Counselor Ahmed El-Zend threatened to open an investigation as a means of exerting pressure on lawyers …
CAIRO: Press reports on an official complaint filed against former Lawyers’ Syndicate chairman Sameh Ashour accusing him of allegedly seizing LE 10 million during his term are untrue, board member Mohamed Abdel-Ghaffar said Thursday. Abdel-Ghaffar told Daily News Egypt that on July 1 he had filed a complaint before the Public Prosecutor, not the Public …
CAIRO: The North Cairo Appeals Court sentenced journalist Magdy Hussein to one year in prison for 14-year-old charges, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) Director Gamal Eid told Daily News Egypt Wednesday. Hussein, the former editor-in-chief of El-Shaab, the mouthpiece of the frozen Islamist Labor Party, was about to complete another term in prison, …
CAIRO: The Cairo Administrative Court has called off orders by the Ministry of Interior to deport two Sudanese refugees from Egypt, lawyer at the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) Ahmed Hossam said Monday. The ruling, which was announced Sunday, put into force for the first time the 1951 United Nations Convention relating …
CAIRO: Lawyers have ended their sit-in at the Tanta Courts Complex until further notice from the syndicate board, lawyer Mohamed Suliman told Daily News Egypt Monday. Dozens of lawyers from all over Egypt, especially Tanta city, organized a sit-in Saturday, one day prior to the second appeal hearing of two lawyers charged with attacking the …
CAIRO: The Tanta Appeals Court adjourned Sunday the retrial of two lawyers accused of attacking a local prosecutor to July 18. The court ordered that the two lawyers remain in custody till then. Last month, lawyers Ehab Saey El-Din and Moustafa Fatouh were found guilty of assaulting and offending Basem Abu El-Rous, the local prosecutor …
CAIRO: Dozens of lawyers from all over Egypt will resume on Saturday a strike inside the Tanta Courts Complex in solidarity with two lawyers sentenced to five years in prison for attacking a local prosecutor. The strike was primarily held Wednesday afternoon at Otour District Court in Gharbeya governorate by dozens of lawyers. …
CAIRO: “I will seek again to overturn the death sentence against Mahmoud Sayed Essawy,” charged with the murder of two university students back in 2008, lawyer Ahmed Gomaa told Daily News Egypt Thursday. Gomaa, representing Essawy, declined to comment on the verdict until he looks into the judge’s conclusions to be released within 30 days. …
CAIRO: The Appeals Court chairman has rescinded his decision to dissolve judicial district 119, Vice Chairman of Cassation Court Ahmed Mekky told Daily News Egypt Wednesday. Earlier last week, the Chairman of the Appeals Court Intissar Nassim, who officially retired Wednesday, had decided to dissolve judicial district number 119, which looks into cases filed against …
CAIRO: Dozens of lawyers held an open strike Wednesday inside Otour District Court in Gharbia governorate until the appeal session on July 4 of two lawyers sentenced to five years in prison for attacking Tanta city’s local prosecutor. “We decided to hold a strike because justice did not take its course; and other colleagues were …
CAIRO: The Cairo Criminal Court adjourned on Tuesday the retrial of Hisham Talaat Moustafa and Mohsen Al-Sukkari to Sept. 25, due to the Lawyers’ Syndicate’s nationwide strike. It is the second time this week that the syndicate has deterred defense lawyers from pleading their case. “As long as I belong to the syndicate, I am …
CAIRO: The Lawyers’ Syndicate strike deterred defense lawyers from pleading their case during the latest hearing of Hisham Talaat Moustafa and Mohsen Al-Sukkari’s retrial, Bahaa Eddin Abu Shoaa said Sunday. Abu Shoaa, one of Moustafa’s lawyers, told daily News Egypt, “We found ourselves, as prominent lawyers, caught between obeying the Lawyers’ Syndicate call [to strike] …
* Coptic protestors call for right to remarry outside the Justice Ministry on Thursday. (Daily News Egypt Photo/Marwa Al-A’sar) # ! CAIRO: Dozens of Copts protested Thursday outside the Ministry of Justice headquarters in downtown Cairo against Pope Shenouda III’s refusal to allow Copts to remarry. The protesters called for ending the controversy raised recently …
CAIRO: Dozens of opposition activists and a number of MPs gathered Thursday outside the People’s Assembly headquarters in downtown Cairo to protest against the alleged forgery of the Shoura Council mid-term election results. The protesters were mainly members of the National Association for Change and the Muslim Brotherhood movement. The protest was previously scheduled outside …
CAIRO: The government has to set fair minimum wages, expand social insurance funds and include minorities in decision-making, economic and cultural rights in the country, a legal report recommended. Hisham Mubarak Law Center launched in a press conference Wednesday its first report on social, economic and cultural rights in 2009. Prepared by the center’s Egyptian …
CAIRO: Handing over the authority to dissolve judicial districts to the appeals court chairman is incorrect, Vice Chairman of the Cassation Court Ahmed Mekky told Daily News Egypt Tuesday. Based on the principle of the independence of the judiciary, the court’s general assembly is the entity in charge of managing court affairs, Mekky added. Chairman …
CAIRO: No legal action has yet been taken against MP Nashaat El-Qassass who called for shooting protesters about two months ago, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) director Gamal Eid told Daily News Egypt Monday. El-Qassass, a member of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), has been enjoying immunity since then, which emphasizes a …
CAIRO: The Tanta Appeals Court on Sunday postponed to July 4 the retrial of the two lawyers accused of assaulting and insulting the local prosecutors. However, the two lawyers will remain in custody till then. “Legally speaking, the delay of the trial is a normal procedure by the criminal court to … look further into …
CAIRO: Human rights activists criticized Thursday the foreign ministry’s rejection of a recent report on human trafficking published by the US Department of State. “We may understand that that government lies but at least it should know how to lie,” Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) Director Gamal Eid told Daily News Egypt. “Refusing …
CAIRO: Judge Mohamed Abdel-Rehim Ismail, who is residing over the double homicide of two university students last year, on Wednesday referred the man charged in the case to the Grand Mufti of Egypt, reinforcing a previous execution sentence. A special session will be held June 30 to announce the final verdict, but the procedure of …
CAIRO: Wael El-Ebrashi, editor-in-chief of independent Sawt El-Umma newspaper, will stand trial on July 18 at the Giza Criminal Court for charges of inciting the public against a new tax bill. Journalist Samar Al-Dawy was also transferred to the criminal court for similar charges. In his complaint before the attorney general, Minister of Finance Youssef …