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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/29/us-egyptian-forces-raid-cairo
Hundreds of low-ranking policemen in Egypt are holding protests to demand they not be used as a tool for political oppression in the country's ongoing turmoil.
Dozens of policemen rallied Tuesday outside local security administration headquarters in at least 10 provinces. Some of them carried signs reading, "we are innocent of the blood of the martyrs."
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Although small, the protests marked a rare instance of dissent by Egypt's police force. The rallies reflect fears among many policemen of a public backlash after weeks of violent crackdowns on anti-government protests.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/masked-men-block-egypt-subway-scuffles-break-18464180
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http://topics.cnn.com/topics/egypt
Month-long suspension of website over anti-Muslim film a 'backwards step' for free speech, says human rights group
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/egypt-court-bans-youtube-muslims
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on the first visit to Cairo by an Iranian leader in more than three decades, called for a strategic alliance with Egypt and said he had offered the cash-strapped Arab state a loan.
The effort drew a cool response, however. Shi'ite Islamist Iran is still looked on with suspicion by many in Egypt, a predominantly Sunni Muslim nation. Points of contention include Iran's support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and its policies elsewhere in the Arab world.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/06/us-egypt-iran-idUSBRE9151DX20130206
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Organizations are working together to fight and prevent sexual violence against female protesters in Tahrir square. Sexual assault in Egypt is nothing new and quite prevalent. Note that this observer states the mobs attacking and raping women exhibit behavioral patterns and appear to be organized.
"Stripping naked and dragging an Egyptian is a crime that shows the excessive violence of the security forces and the continuation of its repressive practices - a crime for which the president and his interior minister are responsible," the liberal politician Amr Hamzawy said on Twitter.
The incident recalled the beating of a woman by riot police on Tahrir Square in December 2011. Images of her being dragged and stomped on - her black abaya cloak torn open to reveal her naked torso and blue bra - became a rallying symbol for the revolution and undermined the interim military rulers who held power between Mubarak's fall and Morsi's rise.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/02/egypt-protests-video-police-naked-man
Video of a mob sexual assault.
Egypt's president declared a state of emergency and curfew in three Suez Canal provinces hit hardest by a weekend wave of unrest that left more than 50 dead, using tactics of the ousted regime to get a grip on discontent over his Islamist policies and the slow pace of change.
The curfew and state of emergency, both in force for 30 days, affect the provinces of Port Said, Ismailiya and Suez. The curfew takes effect Monday from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. every day.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/27/egypt-state-of-emergency-declared_n_2563553.html
In the midst of large demonstrations marking the second anniversary of the beginning of the Egyptian revolution, horrific sexual crimes were committed against women in and around Tahrir square.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/29/world/africa/egypt-sexual-assault-allegations/index.html
-Protesters stormed the governorate building in the city of Damietta in Egypt's Damietta Governorate on leading to clashes with security forces. The protests were part of ongoing nationwide demonstrations marking the second anniversary of the anti-government uprising that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak. No causalities reported.
-19 people were killed and 200 others were wounded during violent clashes between protesters and security forces near the municipality of Korn al-Dekka in Egypt's Alexandria Governorate. The casualty report was provided by the Ministry of Health.
-The headquarters of the Freedom and Justice Party - an Islamist party with strong links to the Muslim Brotherhood - was set on fire by protesters in the city of Ismailiya in Egypt's Ismailiya Governorate
-6 security force personnel were shot and wounded by unidentified assailants while guarding the Suez city council building in the city of Suez in Egypt's Suez Governorate. The security forces took shelter inside the building following the attack.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21191260
Published on Jan 15, 2013 Co-Founder and director of HarassMap, a volunteer initiative that combines mobile and internet technology and community activism to end the social acceptability of sexual harassment in Egypt. She received her MA in International Development and International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a certificate in Strategic Frameworks for NGOs from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and her BA in Politics and Pre-Medicine from New York University. In addition to directing HarassMap, she currently serves as Development and Communications Consultant to INJAZ Egypt. She has lived and worked in Cairo, Egypt since 2004, where at the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights, she previously served as Director of International Relations and founded and managed their highly successful Campaign Against Sexual Harassment. She also served on the UN Development Assistance Framework M&E Task Force, as Development Officer at Ashoka Arab World and as pro-bono consultant to a number of Egyptian organizations.
The apparent double standards of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood may be a factor in the growing public hostility toward the group. "In Egypt, a strange situation has emerged after the revolution," commentators observe. Political parties are subject to government supervision and required to divulge their funding sources - except for Islamist groups.
http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/who-funds-egypts-islamists/
Egyptians had voted in a referendum that concluded on 22 December, with unofficial polling by the Muslim Brotherhood - which endorsed the vote - having suggested that more than 60% had voted in favor. In the end, results released on 25 December showed that 63% of voters backed the contentious new constitution, with turnout standing at 32.9%.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/25/world/africa/egypt-constitution/index.html
Egyptians voted in the second and final phase of the country's bitterly divisive constitutional referendum which has sparked weeks of unrest.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/22/egypt-votes-second-constitution-referendum
Egyptians voted in the first round of the national referendum on the country's new constitution with turnout high in Cairo and throughout the Nile delta. The Muslim Brotherhood, which backs the new constitution, said its unofficial tallies showed that 56.5 per cent of voters had supported the document, with 43 per cent opposing it. The initial results point to a deeply divided political future for Egypt, marked by a prolonged standoff between liberals and secularists on the one hand, Islamists on the other, and the army and judiciary caught in the middle.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20737073
Tension over the new constitution. President Morsi issues a decree stripping the judiciary of the right to challenge his decisions. The decree is met with angry protests by the secular and liberal opposition. Egypt's top judges accuse him of undermining the independence of the judiciary and announce a strike.
The Islamist-dominated constituent assembly approves a draft constitution that boosts the role of Islam, in a session boycotted by liberal, left-wing and Christian members, further enraging opposition protesters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/world/middleeast/morsi-urged-to-retract-edict-to-bypass-judges-in-egypt.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Fatma Nabil appeared on Channel 1’s primetime slot wearing a cream-colored headscarf and a dark suit. State TV announced that it was the first such appearance by a veiled woman in the nation’s history.
http://rt.com/news/veil-tv-broadcast-egypt-215/
In Egypt, protesters hurled stones at a police cordon around the U.S. embassy in central Cairo after climbing into the embassy compound and tearing down the American flag.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/13/us-protests-idUSBRE88C0J320120913
New prime minister Hisham Qandil appoints a cabinet dominated by figures from the outgoing government, technocrats and Islamists, excluding secular and liberal forces.
The highest court in Egypt has overturned a decree by President Mohammed Mursi to recall parliament.
Mr Morsi had issued the decree in defiance of a military council ruling that dissolved parliament.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18789992
Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was declared Egypt's first democratically elected president, triggering rapture in Cairo's Tahrir Square and a nervous welcome from regional leaders jittery over the advance of Islamism.
The official election results gave Morsi, a US-educated engineer, 51.7% of the vote against 48.3% for his rival, Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister under Mubarak. The turnout was reported to be 51.6%.
It is the first time that Egypt
has been headed by an Islamist in the modern era, and the first time that a freely elected civilian has come to power in the country.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/24/muslim-brotherhood-egypt-president-mohamed-morsi
Millions of Egyptians went to the polls to choose a president in a historic election intended to end army rule and usher in a new democratic era more than a year after the uprising which overthrew Hosni Mubarak.The political landscape is deeply divided.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7ed1b966-a43a-11e1-a701-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2JWnlkKCr
The Egyptian government has refused to license several US-based civil society groups, including a prominent election-monitoring group.
The official MENA news agency quoted a government source saying the Insurance and Social Affairs Ministry rejected the applications because the NGOs’ activities were “inconsistent with the state’s sovereignty.”
The eight blacklisted groups include the Carter Center, Coptic Orphans and Seeds of Peace.
http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2012/04/egypt-bans-ngos-its-us-envoy-says-have-benevolent-impact-on-transition/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DemocracyDigest+%C3%9Emocracy+Digest%28
Scores of Egyptian soccer fans were crushed to death while others were fatally stabbed or suffocated after being trapped in a long narrow corridor trying to flee rival fans armed with knives, clubs and stones, in the country's worst ever soccer violence that killed at least 74 people.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/02/us-egypt-soccer-violence-idUSTRE81022D20120202
Islamist parties emerge as victors of drawn-out parliamentary elections.
Egyptian security forces stormed the offices of 10 human rights and pro-democracy groups on Thursday, including several based in the U.S., accused by the country's military rulers of destabilizing security by fomenting protests with the help of foreign funding.
The raids on 17 offices throughout Egypt are part of the ruling generals' attempt to blame "foreign hands" for the unrest that continues to roil Egypt since the 18-day revolt that ousted longtime leader Hosni Mubarak in February, but that activists say failed to topple his regime.
Among the offices ransacked were the U.S.-headquartered National Democratic Institute, Freedom House and the International Republican Institute, which is observing Egypt's staggered parliamentary elections.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/29/egypt-ngo-offices-stormed_n_1174350.html
Egyptian security forces stormed the offices of 10 human rights and pro-democracy groups on, including several based in the U.S., accused by the country's military rulers of destabilizing security by fomenting protests with the help of foreign funding.
The raids on 17 offices throughout Egypt are part of the ruling generals' attempt to blame "foreign hands" for the unrest that continues to roil Egypt since the 18-day revolt that ousted longtime leader Hosni Mubarak in February, but that activists say failed to topple his regime.
Among the offices ransacked were the U.S.-headquartered National Democratic Institute, Freedom House and the International Republican Institute, which is observing Egypt's staggered parliamentary elections.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/29/egypt-ngo-offices-stormed_n_1174350.html
An Egyptian administrative court issued an order banning virginity tests for female detainees, months after several women alleged they were subjected to such examinations following a March protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
The ruling comes in the case of Samira Ibrahim, a 25-year-old marketing manager who took the country's military led-government to court in August, alleging she was among those subjected to the test after her arrest during the March 9 protest. She said she faced death threats after bringing the case.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/27/world/meast/egypt-virginity-tests/index.html
Egyptian activist Ghada Kamal was grabbed, slapped and beaten by an army officer this week during five days of violent demonstrations demanding an end to military rule.
Images of women often in a lead role during the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February resonated across the Arab world. Now women say they are being targeted; pictures of them being molested have fuelled anger at home and abroad.
In one video that has in the days since it was shot come to symbolize the abuse, army officers were shown dragging a woman by her black robe, worn by conservative Muslims, as she lay on the ground, revealing her blue bra. Then she was repeatedly kicked and clubbed. The image has gone viral on the Internet.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/21/us-egypt-protests-women-idUSTRE7BK1BX20111221
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/22/kamal-el-ganzouri-egypt_n_1164820.html
Violence in Cairo's Tahrir square as security forces clash with protesters accusing the military of trying to keep their grip on power. Prime Minister Essam Sharaf resigns in response to the unrest. Start of parliamentary elections.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57328905/egypts-cabinet-resigns-as-protests-intensify/
EGYPT has suffered its ugliest eruption of violence since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in February, with an attack by security forces on a protest march in the capital, Cairo, leaving 24 dead and more than 300 injured. Clashes that continued into the night of October 9th pitted army and police units, backed by civilian vigilantes, against infuriated bands of protesters. The declaration of a 2am curfew eventually brought a jittery calm to the city of 15m. The estimated 10,000 protesters on October 9th included secular activists as well as Coptic Christians.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/10/violence-egypt
Former President Mubarak goes on trial in Cairo, charged with ordering the killing of demonstrators earlier in the year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14382997
The president plans to forgive roughly $1 billion in debt owed by Egypt to free up money for job-creation efforts there. And he will reveal other steps to bolster loans, trade and international support in Egypt and in Tunisia, the two nations seen as models of hope in a time when protests elsewhere in that part of the world are being violently crushed.
http://www.today.com/id/43086239/ns/politics-white_house/#.UQoIHPLjHCQ
Egyptian voters overwhelmingly approved proposed constitutional amendments that pave the way for parliamentary elections in June, according to the head of the judicial committee overseeing the referendum.
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-20/world/egypt.referendum_1_egyptians-parliamentary-elections-mubarak-s-national-democratic-party?_s=PM:WORLD
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak from power on Friday after 30 years of one-man rule, sparking jubilation on the streets and sending a warning to autocrats across the Arab world
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41531755/Egypt039s_Mubarak_Steps_Down_Hands_Power_to_Military
Asmaa Mahfouz, a 26-year-old member of the April 6 Youth Movement, posts an online video. Staring into a Web camera with a piercing expression, she challenges her fellow countrymen — emphasis on men — to join the demonstrations on Jan. 25. The video goes viral.
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