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Police Brutality Persists Two Years after Egypt Revolution: Rights Activists
![[Protester injured during clashes with security forces on Mohamed Mahmoud Street on 20 November 2012. Photo by Shadi Rahimi]](/content_images/3/sm_protesters_injured_ahram.jpg "[Protester injured during clashes with security forces on Mohamed Mahmoud Street on 20 November 2012. Photo by Shadi Rahimi]")
Following the recent death of activist Mohamed El-Gendy, who allegedly died after being subject to torture by police, several Egyptian rights activists issued a report on Sunday detailing what they see as the persistence of oppressive police tactics employed by the state. According to the report, 225 people have been detained from the vicinity of Cairo's Tahrir Square since the second anniversary of Egypt's January 25 Revolution, which coincided with mass rallies against ...
Keep Reading »Samer Soliman, Prominent Academic and Activist, Dies at Forty-Four
![[Samer Soliman. 1968-2012]](/content_images/3/sm_SamerSoliman.jpg "[Samer Soliman. 1968-2012]")
Egyptian academic, activist, and author Samer Soliman has died after a battle with terminal illness. He was forty-four years old. Soliman was a founding member of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party and the Egyptians Against Religious Discrimination Movement. He was also professor of political economy at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Soliman graduated in 1990 from Cairo University with a BSc in economics. He then earned a diploma in African studies in 1992, ...
Keep Reading »Shafiq Supporters Demonstrate Against Brotherhood
![[In retaliation, many of Shafiq's posters were torn down by Mursi supporters. Image originally posted to Flickr by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]](/content_images/3/sm_7084735945_2404b9d81d.jpg "[In retaliation, many of Shafiq's posters were torn down by Mursi supporters. Image originally posted to Flickr by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]")
Tens of thousands of supporters of presidential hopeful Ahmed Shafiq gathered in Nasr City on Saturday, one day before the election results are expected to be announced, chanting against the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, Mohamed Mursi, Shafiq’s runoff rival. Protesters, holding aloft banners branded with Shafiq's image, chanted “Down with the rule of the Supreme Guide” and “No to Brotherhood, no to Salafists; they market in the name of religion." The ...
Keep Reading »Latest Egyptian Presidential Vote Count [Updated]
![[Candidates' supporters in Cairo on 16 June 2012. Image by Jonathan Rashad via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_7381388542_22ecfef35b.jpg "[Candidates' supporters in Cairo on 16 June 2012. Image by Jonathan Rashad via Flickr]")
Below is the latest vote count in the 2012 Egyptian Presidential Elections. These numbers will be updated as more information becomes available.
Keep Reading »Egypt’s SCAF Forms National Defence Council Without Revealing its Duties
![[Muslim Brother's candidate Mohamed Morsi faced SCAF/Mubarak's candidate Ahmed Shafik. Image originally posted to Flickr by Johnathan Rashad.]](/content_images/3/sm_7392551314_f08cc14c6e.jpg "[Muslim Brother's candidate Mohamed Morsi faced SCAF/Mubarak's candidate Ahmed Shafik. Image originally posted to Flickr by Johnathan Rashad.]")
Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has formed a National Defence Council, as announced on Thursday, 14 June, in the official state gazette, which publishes any new constitutional or legislative documents when they are issued. The formation of the council was not publicised by the SCAF. The SCAF, however, has yet to provide a description of the tasks that are or shall be assigned to the newly-constructed body, which does not have a precedent in ...
Keep Reading »English Text of SCAF Amended Egypt Constitutional Declaration
![[Supporters celebrate Mohamed Morsi's initial victory in the Egyptian presidential elections in Tahrir square. Image originally posted to Flickr by Zeinab Mohamed.]](/content_images/3/sm_7395448640_3ca8fe5040.jpg "[Supporters celebrate Mohamed Morsi's initial victory in the Egyptian presidential elections in Tahrir square. Image originally posted to Flickr by Zeinab Mohamed.]")
The new addendum to the 30 March 2011 military-authored Constitutional Declaration was released late Sunday by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in the official state gazette, which publishes any new constitutional or legislative documents when they are issued. The following amendments will apply immediately: - Article 30: In the situation that parliament is dissolved the president will be vowed into office in front of High Constitutional Court's General ...
Keep Reading »Analyzing Egyptian Presidential Election Vote
Ahram Online presents a detailed visual breakdown of the results from Egypt's first free presidential elections. [Developed in partnership with Ahram Online. Ahmed Feteha, Basse
Keep Reading »Mursi First, Shafiq Second in Egypt President Race With Two Governorates to Tally Up
![[A long line of Egyptian women voting. Image originally posted to Flickr by UN Women Arab States.]](/content_images/3/sm_7262784468_6e65f75077.jpg "[A long line of Egyptian women voting. Image originally posted to Flickr by UN Women Arab States.]")
Results in twenty-five governorates aggregated by Ahram Online shows that with about 41.8 percent turn out, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi is in the first place so far, followed by Ahmed Shafik, Mubarak's last prime minister, while the leftist candidate, Hamdeen Sabbahi, who proved to be the main surprise so far, fell back to the third place. Still waiting for Cairo and Giza results. Will we witness more surprise? 1. Mursi 4,406,782 ...
Keep Reading »The Battle for Public Space: Squares and Streets of the Egyptian Revolution
![[Protesters standing on a tank in Tahrir Square. Image from Hossam El-Hamalawy Archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_PublicSpaceEgypt.png "[Protesters standing on a tank in Tahrir Square. Image from Hossam El-Hamalawy Archive.]")
Over the course of the first year of the January 25 Revolution, some public squares have become symbols of revolution, while others have come to represent support for the transitional military regime. Space is never something that people simply use; we make meaning out of space through how we use it. And Egypt's revolution has seen a transformation in public space. That it is no longer surprising to see public walls adorned with political graffiti—even those of Cairo’s ...
Keep Reading »25 January Anniversary Demonstrations: All Roads Lead to Tahrir
![[Map showing different meeting points for 25 January demonstrators. Image from Ahram Online.]](/content_images/3/sm_25JanCairo.jpg "[Map showing different meeting points for 25 January demonstrators. Image from Ahram Online.]")
Activists map out locations from which they plan to march towards Cairo's Tahrir Square Wednesday on the first anniversary of uprising that toppled Mubarak. Activists have established multiple starting points from which scheduled marches will set out towards Cairo’s Tahrir Square on the occasion of the first anniversary of Egypt’s 25 January Revolution on Wednesday. The day is expected to witness dozens of separate demonstrations, in which participants plan to hold up ...
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