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12 May 09

Egypt - Amnesty International Report 2008 Human Rights | Reports, News Articles & Campaigns | Amnesty International

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Constitutional amendments rushed through parliament were the most serious setback for human rights since the state of emergency was reintroduced in 1981
The amendments cemented the sweeping powers of the police and entrenched in permanent law emergency powers that have been used systematically to violate human rights, including prolonged detention without charge, torture and other ill-treatment, restrictions on freedom of speech, association and assembly, and grossly unfair trials before military courts and special emergency courts
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- 18,000 administrative detainees – people held by order of the Interior Ministry – remained in prison in degrading and inhumane conditions. Some had been held for more than a decade, including many whose release had been repeatedly ordered by courts. Egyptian nationals suspected of terrorism, who had been unlawfully transferred to Egypt by other governments, remained in prison
- As the biggest strike wave for decades spread across the country involving public and private sector workers, the authorities closed an independent group defending workers’ rights
- Political activists, journalists and bloggers were jailed for peacefully expressing their views.
- On 19 March parliament amended 34 articles of the Constitution. Draconian changes made to Article 179 cemented the sweeping arrest powers of the police, gave broad authority for state agents to eavesdrop on private communications, authorized the President to bypass ordinary courts and paved the way for new anti-terrorism legislation expected to further erode human rights protection
- but the changes did not address the fundamental flaws inherent in trying civilians before military cour
- The government announced in December that it had completed drafting a bill on counter-terrorism comprising 58 articles and that expert panels would examine it before it was presented to the Council of Ministers and later to parliament.
- An unknown number of Egyptian nationals suspected of terrorism who had been returned forcibly and without any judicial process in previous years by the US and other governments, detained on arrival and tortured by Egyptian security forces, continued to be imprisoned.
- Torture and other ill-treatment
  
  Torture and other ill-treatment continued to be widespread and systematic, and reportedly led or contributed to at least 20 deaths in 2007. Videos showing torture by police were posted on the internet by Egyptian bloggers.Commonly cited torture methods included electric shocks, beatings, suspension in painful positions, solitary confinement, rape and threats of death, sexual abuse and attacks on relatives. Allegations of torture were rarely investigated. The few prosecutions of alleged torturers never related to political cases and usually followed incidents where the victim had died.
- In a rare successful prosecution of alleged torturers, two officers from Bulaq Dakrur Police Station in Giza Governorate were sentenced in November to three years’ imprisonment for the the unlawful detention, torture and rape of Emad Mohamed Ali Mohamed (Emad al-Kabir), a 21-year-old taxi driver. Emad al-Kabir was arrested in January 2006 after trying to stop an
- Following a hearing in November, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights said it would consider in May 2008 a case filed by 33 human rights organizations against the Egyptian government’s failure to prevent and prosecute physical and
- sexual assaults targeted at women journalists and demonstrators during a protest in May 2005.
- Under Egyptian law, the strikes that spread across the country were “illegal” – unauthorized by the state-sponsored General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU). The authorities responded by increasing repression of trade unionists as well as NGO activists.
- Freedom of expression
  
  Journalists and bloggers faced harassment, prosecution and, in some cases, jail for the peaceful expression of their views or for carrying out their work as journalists.
  In February, Karim Amer became the first blogger in Egypt to be jailed for the peaceful expression of his political views. His four-year sentence was confirmed on appeal in March. He is a prisoner of conscience. Charges against him included “spreading information disruptive of public order and damaging to the country’s reputation”, “incitement to hate Islam” and “defaming the President”.
  In September, four newspaper and magazine editors were sentenced to prison terms and a fine for publishing information “likely to disturb public order”. All were released on bail pending appeal.

11 Mar 09

Journalism In Egypt: Caught Between Laws And the Government

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Human rights in Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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04 Mar 09

Egypt's critics have a voice, but never the last word - International Herald Tribune

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03 Mar 09

SFGate: World Views : Bush in Egypt: Democracy, democracy, democracy! Mubarak: Whaddat?

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At least Bush and Mubarak have something in common: they're both big on torture.

2008 Human Rights Report: Egypt

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27 Feb 09

Whereabouts of detained Egypt blogger unknown-Amnesty | Reuters

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26 Feb 09

Rings of Support

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Egypt arrests another blog critic

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21 Feb 09

Italian paper: Gazans say Hamas kept them in homes used by gunmen - Haaretz - Israel News

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Gazans: IDF used us as 'human shields' during offensive - Haaretz - Israel News

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03 Jan 09

Al Jazeera English - War on Gaza

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ei: Israel's righteous fury and its victims in Gaza

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12 Nov 08

Cal State Graduate Student Is Released From Prison in Iran - Chronicle.com

A graduate student with American and Iranian citizenship who was arrested in Tehran last month was released on Monday after paying $200,000 in bail, her father told the Los Angeles Times, and is due in court today for a hearing of her case.

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