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Mubarak promises continued democratic reforms in Egypt
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak [official profile; BBC profile] said Monday that he will continue with democratic reforms in Egypt and pledged to work with opposition to move "forward on the path of democracy." Mubarak's address to pa (More) |
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International brief ~ Mubarak admits flaws in Egypt vote
Leading Tuesday's international brief, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak admitted for the first time Tuesday that the recent month-long process of national voting for parliament seats and the Presidential office was flawed and should serve as a (More) |
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Exporting Torture: US Rendition and European Outrage
JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK) currently visiting at the University of Maryland School of Law, says that tensions between Europe and the US over American renditio (More) |
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Women voters kept from polling stations in Egypt elections
On the final day of Egypt's legislative elections , police beat back female voters with sticks when they tried to enter a blocked-off polling station in the Nasiriyah district of Zagazig, a stronghold of banned political group the Muslim Brother (More) |
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Egyptian opposition leader detained pending forgery sentence
Former Egyptian presidential candidate Ayman Nour was detained on Monday, indicating that he may be sentenced soon on forgery charges. Nour's lawyer said that the court presiding over the trial ordered that Nour be detained until December 10, (More) |
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Egypt court allows monitoring of vote count with cameras
An Egyptian court has ruled that closed-circuit TV cameras will be installed in polling places in order to allow independent monitors to watch ballot counting in Egypt's parliamentary elections , which will finish with the third round runoff vot (More) |
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Egyptian police blocking voters as final round of parliamentary elections begin
The final round of Egypt's legislative elections began Thursday, though riot police in some towns blocked access to polling stations in contradiction to government promises of free and fair elections. The cordoning-off of polling stations is th (More) |
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Italian judge denies immunity claim of CIA agent accused in kidnapping plot
An Italian judge ruled Tuesday that a former CIA station chief in Milan is not protected by diplomatic immunity, upholding an arrest warrant issued for his alleged participation in the kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr . The (More) |
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Egypt keeping ban on Muslim Brotherhood despite electoral gains
The Egyptian government does not plan to allow the Muslim Brotherhood to become a legal political party even though it has so far won 76 of 444 seats by running candidates as independents in the three-phase Egyptian parliamentary elections, accordi (More) |
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Egyptian judges reject parliamentary election results
A group of Egyptian jurists known as The Judges Club said in a statement Monday that, due to over 100 irregularities reported by monitoring judges at polling stations, it did not endorse the results of the parliamentary runoff elections. The stateme (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
