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Jun 5, 2013

Top News: US, Germany, and Rights Groups Slam Egypt’s NGO Trial

US Secretary of State John Kerry voiced concern Tuesday about the sentences handed down by a Cairo court on 43 Egyptian and foreign NGO workers, denouncing it as a "politically-motivated" trial. 

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Jun 5, 2013

NGO Verdict Revives Calls for Reevaluating US Assistance to Egypt

By Nancy Messieh

After a lengthy year-and-a-half long trial, Egypt’s court sentenced forty-three Egyptians, Americans, and other foreign nationals to up to five years in prison. The trial, infamously known in local Egyptian media as the ‘Foreign Funding Trial,’ has come to a distressing end and is yet another test for US-Egypt relations, as well as a foreboding […]

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Jun 4, 2013

Top News: Egypt Sentences Forty-Three, Including Americans, in NGO Case

An Egyptian court handed down jail terms to forty-three Americans, Europeans, Egyptians, and other Arabs on Tuesday in a case against democracy promotion groups that brought US-Egyptian ties to the lowest point in decades.

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Jun 4, 2013

Why the Muslim Brotherhood Doesn’t Want to Hold Elections Now

By Amr Hamzawy

Let’s temporarily set aside positions held by the country’s opposition, the National Salvation Front (NSF), regarding parliamentary elections, and questions over whether or not to boycott due to the need to change unjust electoral rules. We will also ignore the position of the country’s far right religious factions for now, and their rejection of calls […]

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Jun 4, 2013

Top News: Egypt Sentences Forty-Three, Including Americans, in NGO Case

An Egyptian court gave jail terms to forty-three Americans, Europeans, Egyptians and other Arabs on Tuesday in a case against democracy promotion groups that plunged US-Egyptian ties into their worst crisis in decades.

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Jun 4, 2013

Syria: Steps to Resolve the Problem from Hell

By Frederic C. Hof

The problem of Syria is a problem from hell. It is a problem for which there are no easy or painless solutions. It is a problem that will likely be with us for a long time, even if we had every lucky break imaginable.

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Jun 3, 2013

The Consequences of a Repressive NGO Law

By Nancy Messieh

Egypt’s draft NGO law has undergone several iterations, the latest of which President Mohamed Morsi submitted to the Shura Council. The law has provoked a significant local and international uproar. Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights (together with almost 40 other local organizations), and UN High Commissioner for Human […]

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Jun 3, 2013

Top News: East Libya Group Declares Autonomy

The leader of a political group in Libya’s oil-rich Cyrenaica province declared it a self-governing region in a speech on Saturday, evidence of growing pressure for a new constitution to adopt a federal structure.

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Jun 3, 2013

Top News: Egypt Parliament Ruled Illegal, But to Stay On

The Shura Council and the Constituent Assembly were formed unconstitutionally according to a ruling of the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) on Sunday. According to the ruling, the Shura Council will be dissolved after a new House of Representatives is formed. The constitution will also remain in effect. 

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May 31, 2013

Top News: United States Troubled by Verdicts in Embassy Attack in Tunisia

The US embassy in Tunisia said it is “deeply troubled” that the twenty people convicted of attacking the embassy last year only received suspended sentences.