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06/04/2002

EGYPT/GAY RIGHTS: EMMA BONINO, SAMI NAIR AND VERONIQUE DE KEISER MEPs WRITE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENT ON THE "QUEEN BOAT TRIAL" CASE

Emma Bonino (Radical, Italy), Sami Nair (Socialist, France) and Véronique De Keyser (Socialist, Belgum) MEPs have written today to the President of the Egyptian Parliament, Mr Ahmed Fathi Sorour, to express their satisfaction for the release on bail
02/16/2002

EP/EGYPT/HUMAN RIGHTS

Olivier Dupuis, MEP from the Lista Bonino, welcomed the fact that the case against Professor Saad El Din Ibrahim and nine other people working with him at the Ibn Khaldoun Centre, had been thrown out of court for procedural error. The accused had bee
02/12/2002

EGYPT/HOMOSEXUALITY: RADICAL MEPS ANNOUNCE "127 MEPs HAVE SIGNED THE APPEAL TO PRESIDENT MUBARAK FOR THE RELEASE OF 23 PERSONS IMPRISONED BECAUSE OF HOMOSEXUALITY"

127 MEPs of all political groups have signed the appeal to the President of the Republic of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, for the release of 23 Egyptian citizens condemned to prison sentences between 2 and 5 years because of their presumed homosexuality. The
12/20/2001

Egypt court hears US activist

CAIRO: Egypt's cassation court began hearing on Wednesday US-Egyptian rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim's plea to overturn a seven-year jail sentence handed down in May.

Diplomats from Britain, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway
11/30/2001

PRESS RELEASE OF THE TRANSNATIONAL RADICAL PARTY ON THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION ON THE CONCLUSION OF AN ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT WITH EGYPT

The European Parliament has adopted yesterday a critical resolution on Egypt after a harsh debate followed the attempt of 34 MEPs, led by Marco Cappato and Olivier Dupuis, MEPs, and Ottavio Marzocchi, member of the Radical Party, to postpone the vote
05/22/2001

Egypt Punishes Sociologist for Defaming State

CAIRO An Egyptian-American sociologist, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison by an Egyptian state security court that concluded that his attempts to monitor parliamentary elections and investigate relations between Muslim
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