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A disciplinary hearing for two Egyptian judges who complained of alleged fraud in last year's parliamentary elections is set to resume amid renewed clashes between riot police and the judges' supporters . The judges, Mahmoud Mekki...

Two Egyptian judges faced disciplinary hearings at the Egyptian Supreme Court Thursday for their criticisms of parliamentary elections last year, which they and eight other judges claimed were marred by fraud. The two judges, Hesham el-Bastawisy and...

Reformist Egyptian judges Mahmud Mekki and Hisham Al Bastawissi face disciplinary hearings before Justice Minister Mahmud Abuleil, a judicial source reported Monday. The judges may possibly be terminated for leaking information to the press during last year's parliamentary elections...

Members of the professional association of Egyptian jurists known as The Judges Club demonstrated in Cairo Friday, calling for greater judicial independence in Egypt and denouncing the government's order to interrogate six judges who were stripped...

Leading Friday's international brief, four high profile Egyptian judges who spoke out against fellow colleagues accused of rigging votes in last year's presidential elections have been stripped of judicial immunity and are scheduled to be questioned by Egyptian police...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak admitted for the first time Tuesday that the recent month-long process of national voting for parliament seats and the Presidential office was flawed and should serve as a lesson...

JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK) currently visiting at the University of Maryland School of Law, says that tensions between Europe and the US over American...

Egypt reassured the US Monday that Sami Al Laithi, an Egyptian man who was released from Guantanamo Bay last week and tranferred to Egypt, would be "treated humanely, in accordance with Egyptian and international...

Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif told newly-appointed US Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes Monday that his government plans to lift the state of emergency that has been in place in the country...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kristen Stilt of the University of Washington School of Law says that the victory of President Hosni Mubarak in the recent Egyptian multi-candidate presidential election was no triumph of democracy, but rather the product of constitutional sleight...