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The trial of controversial al-Dustour editor Ibrahim Eissa on charges of allegedly spreading "rumors" about the health of Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak in an August newspaper report began in Cairo Monday. Eissa chose...

Egypt Wednesday called US criticism of its alleged rights violations "unacceptable," labeling a Monday White House statement about the closure of the Association for Human Rights Legal Aid as "interference" in...

The Bush administration expressed concern Monday about recent "setbacks on press freedom and civil society" in Egypt. Commenting on a recent Egyptian government order mandating the closure of the Association for Human Rights Legal Aid , White House...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the US and nine other countries to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty on Tuesday, saying that the ratification would "move us toward the larger goals of ridding the...

The Egyptian government has banned an annual gathering of the Muslim Brotherhood as part of its crackdown on opposition to the Egyptian government, a Brotherhood official said Sunday. The Brotherhood gathers annually...

Amnesty International and Reporters without Borders Friday accused Egypt of clamping down on freedom of the press after a court sentenced the editors of four tabloids for publishing criticisms of President Hosni Mubarak and the...

The United States should not deport foreign detainees back to their home countries if there is reason to believe they will face torture , American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyers argued Thursday. Appearing before the...

Egyptian officials on Wednesday arrested two lawmakers from the Muslim Brotherhood in order to question them in a case involving "other Brotherhood members," according to a police official speaking anonymously. The Brotherhood, banned from officially...

The military trial of 40 senior members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood resumed in Egypt Sunday despite criticism from Amnesty International regarding the country's failure to allow independent observers into the...

Egypt's Judicial Affairs Minister Mufid Shehab said Saturday that the country will lift its 25-year-old state of emergency by June 2008, according to state news agency Mena. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak promised in 2005 and...