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02/26/2005

Egypt's Mubarak Orders Election Amendment

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday ordered a review and amendment of the country's presidential election law, paving the way for the possibility of multi-candidate polls in September.

The surprise announcement follows increasing opp
02/26/2005

Rice Cancels Egypt Trip as Rift Grows Over Reform

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice canceled an official visit to Cairo on Friday amid growing tensions between the United States and Egypt over what the Bush administration views as Egypt's resistance to democratic reform.

Richard Boucher, th
02/25/2005

Detained Egypt opposition leader on hunger strike

Detained Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour has gone on hunger strike in his prison cell, his wife said on Thursday.
Gamila Ismail told Reuters that Nour, leader of the Ghad (Tomorrow) Party, has not eaten since Tuesday evening and told a drive
02/25/2005

 Egypt's opposition leader on hunger strike

Cairo - Detained opposition leader Ayman Nour has begun a hunger strike, his wife Gameela Ismail said on Thursday. The move is likely to increase concerns for Nour, a diabetic whose recent detention has been strongly criticised by the US Secretary o
02/25/2005

Enough is not enough

Eighteen-year-old Asmaa, a Cairo University first- year dental student, stormed out of the campus's massive iron gates with a group of students, ecstatic that security forces had allowed them to join an anti-Mubarak demonstration that was taking plac
02/25/2005

Cairo crackdown undermines talk of reform

Crowded outside Cairo university earlier this week, around 100 demonstrators chanted slogans blaming President Hosni Mubarak for Egypt's decline and calling on him to step down.

They were surrounded by riot police, outnumbering them five to on
02/25/2005

El Ghad Party: Stop Calls for Constitutional Reform or Else

In another crackdown on reform advocates in Egypt, Wael Nawara, First Assistant to the Chairman of El Ghad Party (Party of Tomorrow) was brutally attacked and beaten during a Human Rights Conference in Giza, Egypt.

The conference, titled “Cons
02/24/2005

Detained Egypt opposition leader out of hospital

Detained Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour has gone back to his cell after one day in prison hospital, his wife said on Thursday.

Nour, leader of the Ghad (Tomorrow) Party, was detained in January for questioning about allegations that the
02/24/2005

Egypt's Brutal Answer

On monday President Bush again called on Egypt to "lead the way" toward democratic change in the Middle East. Apparently Hosni Mubarak, the country's leader for the past 24 years, wasn't listening. Later that same day, Mr. Mubarak's agents renewed th
02/24/2005

Detained opposition leader 'taken ill'

Relatives of Ayman Nour, the detained Egyptian opposition leader, said yesterday he had suffered a mild stroke or heart attack under interrogation.

Gamila Ismail, Mr Nour's wife, said his left arm and side had gone numb and he had experien
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