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Egypt and the Volcano
You see these peaks of opposition activity that get crushed, and then it flares up and gets crushed again, but the flares get a little higher each time and Mubarak…
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When Will Egypt's State of Emergency End?
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights’ findings, made public on March 9, criticized abuses made in the name of national security in Egypt. The report criticized the wide discretion…
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There's No Free Press in Egypt
That’s some bad timing U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey had last week. Speaking at a public conference in Egypt, Scobey declared that “Egyptians are very free to speak out.…
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My husband's place is not in prison
This post was written by Shaimaa, the wife of Write-a-thon case, Musaad Suliman Hassan Hussein (known by his pen name Musaad Abu Fagr), who has been in administrative detention in…
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Write-a-Thon Series: Musaad Abu Fagr
This posting is part of our Write-a-Thon Cases Series. For more information visit www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/ [caption id="attachment_6320" align="alignright" width="236" caption="© AI         Musaad Abu Fagr"][/caption] A State of Emergency has existed in Egypt…
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The Story of Maajid Nawaz
Maajid Nawaz is a British citizen of Pakistani descent who became involved in his youth with the radical Islamic Liberation Party (Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami), undertaking missions for the party in…
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Obama's Speech and the Arab Reaction
In the immediate aftermath of President Obama’s speech today in Cairo, the heavy web traffic of discussion among Arab activists was divided essentially into two camps. One person claimed that…
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Obama’s Hotly Anticipated Speech to the Muslim World
[caption id="attachment_2247" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Obama's BBC Interview"][/caption] President Obama is due to arrive in Cairo on Thursday to give a hotly anticipated speech to the Muslim world during a five…
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What detention looks like on Twitter
One of the side effects of our new social networking technology is we are getting to see human rights violations and the workings of security agencies occur in real time…
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Egypt vs. the Bloggers
Days after Egyptian authorities went after one blogger critical of the government's policy on Gaza and human rights, they're now going after another. Dia’ el Din Gad, a student blogger…