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Muslim Brotherhood urges boycott of Egypt municipal elections after activist arrests
Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] Monday announced that it would boycott municipal elections [MP statement; press release] set for April 8, saying that the government has continuously blocked the group's (More) |
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Chemical weapons watchdog group urges holdout countries to join treaty
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Friday called on 12 countries, including Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon, to join the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) as the organization prepared to hold a review conference n (More) |
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Egypt prosecutor investigating Muslim Brotherhood alleged role in riots
The Egyptian state prosecutor ordered an investigation Wednesday into accusations that 147 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] caused riots during unauthorized protests on Tuesday against the government for (More) |
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Egypt prosecutor appeals sentence of editor convicted over Mubarak 'rumors'
An Egyptian prosecutor Wednesday appealed the six-month prison sentence handed down last week against a former editor of the weekly al-Dustour newspaper, insisting it was too lenient. Ibrahim Eissa was convicted on charges of spreading "rumo (More) |
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Egypt arrests Muslim Brotherhood members for posting campaign fliers
Egyptian security forces Tuesday arrested five members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] as they were posting campaign fliers on behalf of Muslim Brotherhood candidates slated to run in local council elections sc (More) |
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Egypt Muslim Brotherhood arrests threaten local elections: HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday criticized Egypt for arresting over 800 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder], including 148 candidates slated to run in local council elections scheduled for April 8. HRW (More) |
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UN council passes resolution urging Sudan to address human rights abuses
The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution Thursday urging Sudan to address human rights violations and to prosecute perpetrators of rights abuses. The resolution, introduced by Egypt, also acknowledged that Sudan had instituted some measures (More) |
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Egypt court sentences newspaper editor for Mubarak health 'rumors'
A court in Egypt Wednesday sentenced the former editor of weekly newspaper al-Dustour to six months in prison after convicting him on charges of spreading "rumors" about the health of Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak in an August newspa (More) |
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Italy judge orders CIA rendition trial to resume
Italian Judge Oscar Magi on Wednesday ordered the continuation of the trial of 26 Americans and several former Italian intelligence officials for the 2003 abduction and rendition of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr . Magi suspended the t (More) |
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Egypt appeals court rejects release of opposition leader on medical grounds
Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court on Monday upheld a July 2007 decision refusing to grant medical release to jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour [advocacy website; JURIST news archive]. The court reportedly held that Nour, who suffers from h (More) |
Justinian I issues Corpus Juris Civilis
On April 7, 529 - Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law). The Justinian Code represented a revival of Roman Law and a compilation of laws for the Byzantine Empire. It became the foundation of Canon Law in the Catholic Church and Civil Law in modern Europe.
Learn more about the Corpus Juris Civilis from the University of Wyoming College of Law.
