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Egypt's Constitution seen to curtail labor rights and workers freedoms

In this photo, Egyptian children sell facial tissues for drivers at a traffic light in Cairo.
22 Jan 2013
Labor provisions in Egypt's new Constitution are worrying workers and unionists alike, who fear that a lot of room has been left to restrict labor rights. Drafted by an Islamist-dominated assembly, the new Constitution maintains the...
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Salafi bloc faces challenges of electoral support

21 Jan 2013
As the countdown for the legislative poll begins, uncertainty looms over the chances of the nascent Salafi alliance, consisting of an offshoot from the nation’s largest ultra-orthodox party and the followers of a former hardline...
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Social democracy across the sea

The Egyptian Social Democratic Party
21 Jan 2013
"Social democracy did not come to us translated, but with the needs of the moment," said Farid Zahran of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, addressing an international conference of social democratic politicians which...
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Back to square one: Mubarak appeal may reset the whole case, but to an unknown end

A man who is anti-Mubarak holds a defaced picture of the former Egyptian president outside the police academy where Mubarak is on trial in Cairo, June 2, 2012. Mubarak, who governed Egypt for 30 years before a popular uprising toppled him last year, will hear a judge rule on Saturday on whether he is guilty of graft and complicity in the killing of protesters.
20 Jan 2013
  While supporters of former President Hosni Mubarak chanted “God is great” and “Long live justice” in the courtroom after the annulment of the life sentence verdict he received last summer, the front-page...
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Kafka in the courts: The account of Canada’s longest-serving security certificate detainee

20 Jan 2013
TORONTO — Mohammad Mahjoub first arrived in Canada in December 1995, fleeing political persecution in his native Egypt, where he was imprisoned and tortured by the Hosni Mubarak regime. He was granted refugee status in 1996. Shortly...
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Under new Constitution, the battle continues against military trials of civilians

A man holds banner reads
17 Jan 2013
Many let out a sigh of relief when President Mohamed Morsy sent some of the country’s leading military generals into retirement in August 2012, believing that this could be the end of an 18-month struggle to halt military trials of...
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National Salvation Front rifts threaten electoral gains ahead of key vote

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei addresses a news conference in Berlin in this November 20, 2009 file photo. ElBaradei pulled out of the race to become Egyptian president on January 14, 2012, the Nobel Peace Prize winner saying
17 Jan 2013
The National Salvation Front on Saturday delineated 11 conditions that would ensure the integrity of the upcoming parliamentary elections, for which preliminary procedures are set to begin on 26 February. The coming election is a decisive...
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Central Security recruit recounts deadly train wreck

People gathering at wreckage of Badrashin train, after two carriages were separated from the train and derailed at Badrashin stop in Giza, 15 January 2013. Nineteen conscripts were killed and at least another 117 were injured
16 Jan 2013
A 12-car train carrying hundreds of Central Security Forces conscripts left Upper Egypt for Cairo on Monday afternoon. Before midnight, the train derailed in Giza, leaving 19 of its passengers dead and another 120 wounded. This is not an...
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New ownership regulations in Sinai are worrying for many

14 Jan 2013
A series of recent changes in the regulation of land and property ownership in Sinai are said to protect national security, but to the foreign residents and dual nationals of the area, the changes are disconcerting and potentially...
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The Canada of Sinai : A flashback

The Sinai mountains silhouetted at sunset behind Sharm el-Sheikh's main mosque. Bedouin in Egypt's Sinai on Saturday released three South Korean tourists and their Egyptian tour guide a day after their abduction, South Sinai's governor told AFP. (AFP Photo/Hasan Mroue)
14 Jan 2013
The rumors began only a few days into the Israeli attack on Gaza, with whispers on Facebook that Palestinians fleeing a potential Israeli land invasion in the strip would seek refuge in a tent city constructed for them by the Egyptian army...
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