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Egypt president says emergency laws could be extended
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak [official profile; JURIST news archive] suggested Tuesday that the country's emergency laws will be extended before they expire in June. Mubarak said that a nearly two-year gap between the expiration of the emerg (More) |
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Egypt arrests Muslim Brotherhood members over protest plans
Over 100 Muslim Brotherhood members were detained by Egyptian police Sunday, continuing the ruling government's persecution of party members. According to a source from the Interior Ministry, these latest arrests were in response to planned dem (More) |
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Libya releases 130 political prisoners, including Muslim Brotherhood members
Libya freed 130 political prisoners on Thursday, among them 85 members of the Islamist opposition group Muslim Brotherhood , some of whom have been held since 1998. In 2002, the now-abolished People's Court sentenced the Brotherhood members for (More) |
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Egypt voting law proposal prompts outcry from Muslim Brotherhood
The Egyptian opposition Muslim Brotherhood has promised to fight legislation backed by President Hosni Mubarak [official profile; BBC profile] that would delay local elections in Egypt for an another two years and preserve the ruling party's d (More) |
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Egypt rights group calls for probe of election violence
The National Council for Human Rights, sponsored by the Egyptian government, on Thursday called for an investigation into the 11 deaths that occurred during the most recent round of parliamentary elections that ended in December. The killings were (More) |
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Libya political prisoners begin hunger strike over continued detention
Libyan human rights group Human Rights Solidarity (HRS) said Tuesday that 131 political dissidents affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood opposition group have begun a hunger strike in a Tripoli prison to draw attention to a previous government pr (More) |
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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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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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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) |
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.
