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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]
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11.03.2010 - Source:
US Department of State 
"Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2009"
Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2009 [ID 135173]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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23.02.2010 - Source:
Integrated Regional Information Network 
"Child poverty on the rise - UNICEF"
Article on situation of children living in poverty
[ID 134456]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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16.02.2010 - Source:
Committee to Protect Journalists 
"Attacks on the Press 2009"
Annual report on press freedom in 2009 [ID 134290]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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08.02.2010 - Source:
BBC News 
"Egypt detains Brotherhood leaders"
Several senior members of the Islamist opposition movement Muslim Brotherhood are detained [ID 133529]
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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]
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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]
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