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Oct 3, 2012

Top News: New Bill Could Impose Restrictions on NGO Funding, Legalize Muslim Brotherhood

By Egypt Source

Legislation drafted by the Ministry of Insurance and Social Affairs could tighten control over funding for non-governmental organizations and also give legal status to the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist group.

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Oct 2, 2012

Amnesty Calls on Morsi to Reform Army and Police

By Nancy Messieh

Amnesty International released two new reports on Tuesday detailing cases of human rights abuses in Egypt since the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak. The first report, Brutality Unpunished and unchecked: Egypt’s Military Kill and Torture Protesters without Impunity, focuses on transgressions committed by Egypt’s military, while the second, Agents of Repression: Egypt’s Police and […]

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Oct 2, 2012

Top News: Gheriany Says Constituent Assembly to Complete Draft in November

By Egypt Source

The head of the Constituent Assembly said Monday that the body would complete a draft of the new constitution in early or mid-November, adding that if a court dissolves it before then, the next assembly could use its work as a starting point. 

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Oct 1, 2012

Women: Another Casualty of Egypt’s Draft Constitution

By Nancy Messieh

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Oct 1, 2012

Top News: Turkish loan to Egypt, Stance on Syria, Palestine

By Egypt Source

President Mohamed Morsy and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a US$1 billion loan Sunday, half of the aid package Ankara promised Cairo earlier this month, Egypt’s state news agency reported.

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Sep 28, 2012

Moderates and Liberals Double-down on the Constitution

By Tarek Radwan

After President Mohammed Morsi took the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) out of the political equation, he and the Islamist political forces assumed the dominant role in Egyptian politics. They also became the next logical target for secular revolutionaries, leftists and liberals alike. Given that Egypt’s transitional timetable and upcoming parliamentary elections – […]

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Sep 28, 2012

Top News: Egypt’s Constitution Party Seeks Prosecution for ‘Infidel’ Fatwa by Islamist Sheikhs

By Egypt Source

The Constitution Party filed a report on Thursday with supreme state security prosecutors regarding Salafist preacher Wagdy Ghoneim, and Islamist sheikh and Constituent Assembly member Mohamed El-Athry, for the defamation and insulting of party members. 

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Sep 27, 2012

CEWLA Finds Out What Women Want from Egypt’s Constitution [Video]

By Nancy Messieh

As the Constituent Assembly continues to make headway with the draft constitution, amid ongoing controversy, the Center for Egyptian Women Legal Assistance (CEWLA), a non-governmental organization focused on women’s rights released a video addressing what Egypt’s women are looking for in the new constitution. Speaking to a cross-section of women not only from Cairo, but […]

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Sep 27, 2012

Top News: Salafist Nour Party Head Expelled by Party’s Supreme Committee

By Egypt Source

In a major development in the ongoing crisis within Egypt’s Salafist Nour Party, the party’s supreme committee withdrew confidence from its leader Emad Abdel-Ghafour on Wednesday, expelling him from the party and appointing El-Sayid Mostafa Hussein Khalifa in his place. 

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Sep 26, 2012

Morsi’s UN Debut: Palestine, Syria, and Freedom of Speech [Video]

By Nancy Messieh

Appearing in his first televised interviews in both Egypt and the US, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative and speaking to the New York Times, President Mohamed Morsi gave a comprehensive precursor of what to expect from his speech before the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. Sticking to that script throughout a speech in which […]