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Egypt court acquits Al Jazeera cameraman

February 2, 2014 01:57:48 PM

An Egyptian court on Sunday acquitted an Al Jazeera television cameraman and 61 others accused of participating in demonstrations in Cairo last July. Cameraman Mohamed Badr was arrested during protests in Ramses Square in central Cairo against...

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Trial of ousted Egypt president resumes

February 1, 2014 10:11:35 AM

The trial of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi for inciting the murder of several protesters resumed on Saturday. Morsi appeared with 14 co-defendants before the court for the alleged acts committed at the Ittihadiya Presidential...

January 28, 2014 07:06:08 AM

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday expressed grave concern regarding the continuing violence wracking Egypt in the wake of the three-year anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution . Pillay encouraged both...

January 26, 2014 03:09:31 PM

Egypt's interim president Adly Mansour announced in a televised speech on Sunday that Egypt will hold presidential elections before conducting parliamentary elections. The parliamentary elections were supposed to happen first under the timetable agreed to...

January 21, 2014 12:21:24 PM

The Cairo Criminal Court on Monday sentenced outspoken ultraconservative Islamist leader and former presidential hopeful Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail to a year in prison for comments allegedly made at another trial. In that trial, during which he stood accused of...

January 19, 2014 02:16:08 PM

Egypt ratified a new constitution on Saturday after 98.1 percent of voters approved the document. It was the first Egyptian vote after the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi last July. According to Egypt's Supreme Electoral...

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Egypt voters approve new constitution

January 16, 2014 11:48:41 AM

Egyptian voters on Thursday approved the new military-backed constitution, by a margin of over 90 percent, according to unofficial results released Thursday by individual election committees throughout the country. According to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, new constitution garnered [Ahram Online...

January 14, 2014 11:27:18 AM

Egyptians began voting Tuesday in a two-day referendum on the proposed new constitution, which would replace the one passed under former president Mohammed Morsi. Supporters of the new constitution view the referendum as a grand democratic move and the...

January 9, 2014 10:47:41 AM

Three courts in Egypt sentenced 113 supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday. In one of the largest mass trials to date, 63...

January 7, 2014 07:14:07 AM

The Muslim Brotherhood has filed a complaint in the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging widespread and systematic crimes against humanity have been committed by the Egyptian military since its July coup [JURIST...

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Alberto Fujimori born

On July 28, 1938, Alberto Fujimori was born in Lima, Peru. Fujimori became President of Peru exactly 62 years later on July 28, 1990 and served until November 22, 2000, when he fled to Japan under a cloud of allegations involving corruption and human-rights violations. Fujimori was widely credited with restoring Peru's economy and national security during his time in office but was convicted in 2007 of ordering an illegal search and seizure and sentenced to 6 years in prison. In 2009, he was also convicted in a separate trial of human rights violations stemming from his war against domestic terrorists during his time in office. Learn more about Alberto Fujimori and his trial from the archives of the New York Times.

Fourteenth Amendment ratified

On July 28, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, granting citizenship to former slaves and protecting due process of law and equal protection of laws in the States, was ratified. Learn more about the history of the Fourteenth Amendment.