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Egypt protesters decry ruling military council, clash with police
As many as 50,000 protesters took to Tahrir Square in Egypt on Friday, decrying the military's continued rule over the nation since the this year's revolution, and on Saturday were met with a reported violent reprisal from police forces. The Muslim (More) |
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Continued Dysfunction Marks Guantanamo Bureaucracy
JURIST Guest Columnist J. Wells Dixon, Senior Staff Attorney for the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative at the Center for Constitutional Rights, says there is a systematic dysfunction within the bureaucracy of the Guantánamo Bay detention (More) |
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Rights group urges Egypt military prosecutors to release blogger
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called on Egypt's military prosecutors to release Alaa Abd El Fattah [blog; Twitter feed], a blogger and activist who engaged in protests and accused the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) of committing abus (More) |
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UN rights office voices concern over Egypt military trial for blogger
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) voiced concern on Friday regarding recent events in Egypt, "including the military trial and jailing of a blogger/activist." The blogger, Alaa Abdel Fattah, was imprisoned by Egypt's (More) |
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Egypt court suspends verdict banning officials from election
The Egypt Supreme Administrative Court on Monday suspended a verdict handed down last week by the Mansoura Administrative Court that prohibited former officials of the National Democratic Party (NDP) to participate in the upcoming election. As a re (More) |
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Targeted Killings Increasingly Supplant Legal Justice
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Kersten, an MPhil/PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science, says that Gaddafi's death is just one example of worrying trend, in which legal justice is being replaced with targeted killings... (More) |
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Egypt to amend constitution to extend voting rights to citizens abroad
Egypt will amend its constitution to allow citizens living abroad to vote in parliamentary elections, according to a Wednesday report by state-run media outlet Al Ahram. Chairman of the High Commission for Elections , Judge Abdel Moaz Ibrahim, sugg (More) |
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Egypt military council to ratify anti-corruption law
Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) announced on Monday that they will soon ratify a law that bans anyone found guilty of corruption from participating in politics. Egypt's deputy prime minister for political development Ali al-Selmi (More) |
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Egypt activist group condemns military imprisonment of civilian blogger
The Egypt activist group No Military Trials for for Civilians on Sunday condemned the arrest and imprisonment of Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abd el Fattah [blog; Twitter feed] by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) . The blogger (More) |
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Egypt court adjourns Mubarak trial until December
The trial of ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive] was adjourned on Sunday and will not resume until December 28. Mubarak and his co-defendants were present in the courtroom for the short hearing at which the (More) |
Jury selection began for Chicago "Black Sox" baseball trial
On July 5, 1921, jury selection began in the trial of eight Chicago White Sox baseball players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
"Shoeless Joe" Jackson and seven others were eventually acquitted, but were later barred from baseball for life. Learn more about the "Black Sox" trial in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
