12.03.2010 - Source:BBC News 

"Protests as Egypt jails blogger"

Blogger and rights activist Wael Abbas sentenced to 6 months in jail in a case that had already been closed, human rights groups say
[ID 135275]

11.03.2010 - Source:US Department of State 

"Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2009"

Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2009 [ID 135173]

08.03.2010 - Source:Integrated Regional Information Network 

"FGM/C still widespread, says WHO-funded study"

Article on FGM/C in Egypt: Practise still widespread in country
[ID 135289]

04.03.2010 - Source:BBC News 

"Egypt murder conviction quashed"

A court orders the retrial of a tycoon sentenced to death for killing his Lebanese pop star lover [ID 134787]

02.03.2010 - Source:BBC News 

"Egyptian blogger trial criticised"

Egypt has been strongly criticised by Human Rights Watch for trying a blogger, Ahmed Mustafa, before a military court [ID 134675]

01.03.2010 - Source:BBC News 

"Egypt frees market bomb suspects"

Prosecutors have ordered the release of 7 people suspected of taking part in a deadly market bombing [ID 134663]

01.03.2010 - Source:Amnesty International 

"Egypt: Know Your Rights: Housing is a human right [MDE 12/003/2010]"

Article on the right to adequate housing and the right to privacy [ID 134674]

01.03.2010 - Source:Reporters Sans Frontières 

"Student court martialled for blogging about army human rights violations"

Student court martialled for blogging about army human rights violations [ID 134681]

01.03.2010 - Source:Human Rights Watch 

"Free Blogger in Military Court Trial"

Ahmad Mostafa, a 20-year-old student, charged with writing about corruption in the military academy on his blog [ID 134864]

25.02.2010 - Source:Amnesty International 

"Urgent Action 45/10 [MDE 12/010/2010]"

Detained linguist, Mohamed Farid Farag Farrag, was beaten in prison at the start of February and has not been given any medical care since; he is currently on a hunger strike to protest against his ill-treatment; he has been held without charge or trial since November 2007 [ID 134545]

23.02.2010 - Source:Integrated Regional Information Network 

"Child poverty on the rise - UNICEF"

Article on situation of children living in poverty
[ID 134456]

23.02.2010 - Source:Human Rights Watch 

"Egypt: Open All Judicial Positions to Women"

Supreme Judicial Council overruled vote taken by administrative court, known as the Council of State, to bar women from its judicial positions [ID 134612]

17.02.2010 - Source:Reporters Sans Frontières 

"Authorities urged to stop persecuting leading blogger Wael Abbas"

Article on blogger Wael Abbas and his prosecution by the authorities
[ID 134056]

16.02.2010 - Source:Child Rights Information Network 

"Child Rights References in the Universal Periodic Review"

Compilation of extracts from working group on UN Universal Periodic Review, featuring child-rights issues [ID 134038]

16.02.2010 - Source:Committee to Protect Journalists 

"Attacks on the Press 2009"

Annual report on press freedom in 2009 [ID 134290]

16.02.2010 - Source:Human Rights Watch 

"UPR Submission: Egypt September 2009"

Information on human rights situation (state of emergency; arbitrary arrest; enforced disappearance; state security courts and military tribunals; torture and impunity; restrictions on freedom of expression; freedom of association and trade unions; freedom of religion; migrants and refugees; women and children; crackdown on homosexual conduct) [ID 134025]

15.02.2010 - Source:Integrated Regional Information Network 

"End of free health care hits poor hardest"

Government cuts free health care programme; hospitals send patients away as government is unable to pay bills [ID 133924]

14.02.2010 - Source:Human Rights Watch 

"Transfer Zeitoun Trial to Criminal Court"

Trial against 25 defendants accused of membership in terrorist organization fails to protect due process rights of defendants [ID 133920]

14.02.2010 - Source:BBC News 

"Egypt Coptic murder trial opens"

Trial of 3 men charged with killing 6 Coptic Christians and a policeman opens
[ID 133945]

11.02.2010 - Source:BBC News 

"Unions and police clash in Egypt"

Cairo: Police clash with labour unions in a long-running dispute over the privatisation of a textile factory [ID 133798]

10.02.2010 - Source:Human Rights Watch 

"Free Arbitrarily Detained Brotherhood Members"

Security forces arbitrarily arrest 16 senior members of Muslim Brotherhood on 8 February 8; arrests are in addition to at least 41 others since beginning of year [ID 133899]

08.02.2010 - Source:Amnesty International 

"Egypt: End stranglehold on Muslim Brotherhood [MDE 12/007/2010]"

Article on the arrest of at least 15 members of the Muslim Brotherhood [ID 134078]

08.02.2010 - Source:BBC News 

"Egypt detains Brotherhood leaders"

Several senior members of the Islamist opposition movement Muslim Brotherhood are detained [ID 133529]

07.02.2010 - Source:Integrated Regional Information Network 

"Controversial organ transplant bill welcomed by WHO"

New draft law on organ transplant limits donation to relatives of up to fourth degree; illegal removal of organs can be accounted for as murder; death sentence can be applied
[ID 133525]

05.02.2010 - Source:Amnesty International 

"Stop the killings at the border [MDE 12/006/2010]"

Article on excessive use of force against unarmed migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers by border forces [ID 133599]