Egypt
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Beblawy: No haphazard detention for political reasons
Date: 2013-09-16 13:37:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:38 - ID:291986
Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawy stressed Monday that no haphazard detention for political reasons will take place and the civilians that are standing trial before a military court are individual cases connected with attacks on Armed Forces ....
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Rights & freedoms committee calls for guarantees for prisoners' rights
Date: 2013-09-16 13:33:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:37 - ID:291969
The rights and freedoms committee affiliated with the charter amending panel, conferred Monday to discuss the rights of prisoners and the handicapped. Salah Abdallah, who represents the handicapped at the committee of 50, stressed the need to ....
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Mahla residents disperse MB protests
Date: 2013-09-16 13:30:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:291433
Dozens of Al-Mahla Al-Kobra residents have managed to disburse protests organized by the Muslim Brotherhood group where they chanted anti-army and anti-police slogans in protest against the dispersal of Al-Nahda and Rabaa Al-Adawya sit-ins. ....
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Morsi's trial procedures compliant with law - FM
Date: 2013-09-16 13:29:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:36 - ID:291962
Trial procedures for former president Mohamed Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood leaders are being taken in accordance with law, said Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy. The government is committed to restoring the security of the Egyptian citizen and ....
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NCHR condemns systematic attacks on Copts in Upper Egypt
Date: 2013-09-16 13:25:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:291952
The National Council for Human Rights has condemned what it called the systematic attacks on Copts in Upper Egypt, particularly in Menia. An NCHR statement voiced deep concern about the increasing attacks against certain citizens due to their ....
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Minister rejects "stop-gap" gov't measures
Date: 2013-09-16 12:37:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:32 - ID:291838
International Cooperation Minister Zeyad Bahaa-Eddin termed as a "stopgap measure" the government's decision to cancel school and books fees. He said this sop cannot realize social justice. Meanwhile, the minister noted that the ....
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Fire in ambulance unit of Kafr Shokr hospital contained
Date: 2013-09-16 12:24:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:30 - ID:291801
Civil defense forces of Qalubiya governorate managed to contain a fire that broke out in an ambulance unit of Kafr Shokr Central Hospital. Fire engines rushed to the scene of the fire to contain it from extending to the hospital's ....
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Egyptian, Russian FMs to hold talks in Moscow
Date: 2013-09-16 12:15:46 GMT - Russia - Egypt - SN:29 - ID:291778
Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmi holds a session of talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov here on Monday covering bilateral relations in all political, economic and trade domains and a number of other regional and international ....
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West, US change position on Egypt after Ashton's statements
Date: 2013-09-16 12:13:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:291775
The West and the US have changed their stands on Egypt after recent statements by the European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, on her support for the democratic change in Egypt and her intention to visit Egypt again, the Egyptian ....
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Security tightened near oil, gas pipelines
Date: 2013-09-16 11:07:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:24 - ID:291650
Security was tightened near oil and natural gas pipelines in Suez, Ismailia and Cairo. More security forces were fanned out to safeguard the pipelines. Mohamed Khodeir, the chieftain of Amerin tribe of Suez's Ein Sokhna, said tribesmen ....