Egypt

Egypt: 7 Held for Alleged Homosexual Conduct

Egypt: 7 Held for Alleged Homosexual Conduct By Human Rights Watch 10 September 2014 (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities should immediately release seven men arrested on September 6, 2014 for allegedly “inciting debauchery,” Human Rights Watch said today.  Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat ordered the men detained and “physically examined” after an online video emerged showing the men attending what appeared to be a same-sex marriage ceremony

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Egypt Militants Post Beheading Video

Egypt Militants Post Beheading Video ABC News 28 August 2014 An al-Qaida-inspired militant group in Egypt has posted an online video showing the beheading of four men in the Sinai Peninsula accused of spying for Israel, whose bodies were found earlier this month. The Ansar Beit al-Maqdis group, whose name means Champions of Jerusalem in Arabic, posted a 30-minute video showing detailed confessions of the four men. The four said that in exchange for

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Gaza, Egypt and Syria: a Common Thread of Genocide, War Crimes, and Wars Against Humanity

Gaza, Egypt and Syria: a Common Thread of Genocide, War Crimes, and Wars Against Humanity By Esam Al-Amin, Global Research August 12, 2014   Gaza: Indiscriminate Israeli War Crimes against Civilians From July 7 to August 12, 2014 Number of Gazans killed by Israel: 1,943 (with 80 percent  civilian casualties including 437 children and 243 women) Number of Gazans wounded by Israel: 9,886 Number of Houses Destroyed: 5,622; Damaged: at least 36,700

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U.S. says millions forced to flee for religious beliefs in 2013

U.S. says millions forced to flee for religious beliefs in 2013 By Reuters   July 28, 2014   WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More members of religious communities around the world were forced to flee their homes last year than at any time in recent memory, the United States said on Monday, in its annual report on religious freedom. "In almost every corner of the globe, millions of Christians, Muslims, Hindus and others representing a range of faiths

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Egypt to reopen Gaza border on Tuesday

Egypt to reopen Gaza border on Tuesday   By World Bulletin   June 22, 2014   World Bulletin / News Desk Palestinian Ambassador in Cairo Jamal al-Choubaki on Monday said the Egyptian authorities had agreed to reopen the Rafah border crossing between Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. In a statement, al-Choubaki added that Palestinian medical patients, foreign passport holders and Gazans injured by Israel's ongoing

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Egypt sentences a further 183 people to death in new purge of political opposition

By Amnesty International 23 June 2014 Today’s decision by a criminal court in El Minya, Upper Egypt to uphold death sentences against 183 supporters of Mohamed Morsi, including a blind man, provides alarming evidence of the Egyptian judiciary’s increasingly politicized and arbitrary attitude towards justice and the death penalty, said Amnesty International.   The sentences come hot on the heels of seven executions last week, the first in Egypt

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Egypt: UN rights office concerned by harsh sentences handed down for activists

13 June 2014 UN News Centre Egypt’s judicial system has again come up short, the United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) warned today after a criminal court handed down a harsh jail sentence for 25 activists, including prominent blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah, reportedly for “breaching the protest law, illegal gathering, theft, and attacking officials on duty.” Briefing reporters in Geneva, OHCHR spokesperson Rupert Colville expressed concern

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Egypt: 51 killed in new bout of street violence

                        Egypt: 51 killed in new bout of street violence   Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press 13 October 2013 CAIRO — Security forces and Islamist protesters clashed around the country Sunday, leaving 51 killed, as a national holiday celebrating the military turned to mayhem. Crowds from Egypt’s two rival camps — supporters of the ousted Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi,

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Country Profile: Egypt

7 December 2012Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa with over 82 million people. It is dominated ethnically by people who identify themselves as “Egyptian Arab.” There is a ten percent Coptic Christian minority. A variety of ethnic minorities make up the remaining nine percent, including Turks, Greeks, and Berber peoples. Religiously the country is ninety percent Muslim, with a Sunni majority, ten percent Coptic Christian, and

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