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ماذا يعني الحكم لصالح حازم صلاح أبو اسماعيل، وماذا نقرأ في عودة الإخوان للميدان؟

.آلاف السلفيون يتظاهرون يوم ٦ إبريل في ميدان التحرير اعتراضاً على الحكم ضد ترشيح حازم صلاح أبو إسماعيل الصورة لجوناثان رشاد

أتت التطورات الأخيرة على مدار الأسبوعين الماضيين من تصعيد الإخوان ضد المجلس العسكري، إلى تقدمهم بمرشحين لانتخابات الرئاسة، إلى ما أعقب ذلك من ترشيح عمر سليمان، إلى قرار الإخوان بالعودة إلى الميدان، إلى الحكم الصادر لصالح حازم صلاح أبو اسماعيل، وإن توقعها البعض، لتعكس تقريبا كل التصورات التي كانت دارجة حتى وقت قريب عن شكل المرحلة القادمة، ولتؤكد كذلك للمرة الألف على صحة كل ما كان يقال عن إدارة المرحلة الانتقالية بما يعيد السلطة كاملة إلى احضان النظام السابق. لنبدأ بالحكم الصادر لصالح حازم صلاح أبو اسماعيل. أول ما نلحظه في هذا الحكم هو أنه لا يغير أي شيء في قضية ترشح أبو إسماعيل. فما حكمت به المحكمة لا يتعدى إلزام وزارة الداخلية بإصدار مستندات تقر بعدم ازدواج جنسية والدة ...

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Free Egyptians Deny Reported Coalition with Salafist Al-Nour Party

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Leading secularist party says it has no plans to enter into an alliance with hardline Islamists to check the Brotherhood's influence in parliament. The Free Egyptians Party has denied building a new coalition after the conclusion of Egypt's first three phases of parliamentary elections. The party, founded by telecommunications mogul Naguib Sawiris, was the leading player of the liberal Egyptian Bloc during elections for the lower house of parliament in December and January. The bloc, which included secularist parties such as the Egypt Freedom Party, the Socialist Popular Alliance Party (SPA) and the Egyptian Socialist Party, aimed to check the electoral dominance of ...

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Revolutionary Activists Take Fight into Cyberspace

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Battle is joined in ongoing e-war between Egypt's revolutionary activists and their ostensible adversaries. Outspoken writer and political activist Nawara Negm’s email, Facebook and Twitter accounts were reportedly hacked last week, when unknown perpetrators commandeered her two Twitter accounts – @NawaraNegm and Oshaokhtmeligi – on which they posted insulting tweets. Negm is known for her vocal criticisms of public figures for their respective positions on Egypt’s revolution. Negm’s previous targets include former Egyptian vice-president Omar Soliman, Salafist sheikh Mohamed Hassan and the Salafist movement in general.   Negm was ultimately able to restore her ...

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Al-Azhar Calls for SCAF to Handover Power 'Without Delay'

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Egypt’s official religious authority launches initiative to bring key political and religious figures together to discuss "completing the revolution’s goals." The handover of power from the military must happen “on schedule and without delay” and the current trials of former regime officials must be accelerated, said Al-Azhar at a meeting hosted by the Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb, on Wednesday. The statement comes as a conclusion to a national dialogue conference run by Al-Azhar, the leading Sunni authority in the Muslim world, aimed at bringing key political and religious figures together to discuss “regaining the spirit of the revolution and completing its ...

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SCAF’s Advisory Council Lobbying for 'Constitution First' Resolve

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The military's appointed advisory council encourages political parties to promote drafting the constitution before holding presidential elections, contrary to a revolutionary initiative to have elections in January. “Consensus has to be reached between political forces on the issue of drafting the new constitution before holding presidential elections. It is not a sound resolution to elect a president without a constitution to define his powers,” announced Mohamed El-Kholy, spokesman of the military council’s advisory council on Tuesday. The advisory council, who was appointed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in December to “assist” the government in ...

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Islamist Lawyer Charges Billionaire Sawiris with Illicit Gains

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Beleaguered Coptic business tycoon and liberal icon Naguib Sawiris accused by Islamic fundamentalist attorney of profiting from close association ‎with ousted Mubarak regime. Ali Ismail, a lawyer for Egyptian Islamist movement Al-Jamaa Al-‎Islamiya, has lodged a complaint against Coptic-Christian ‎billionaire Naguib Sawiris with Egypt’s Illicit Gains Authority, ‎accusing the high-profile businessman of the illegal acquisition ‎of wealth.‎ Ismail charges Sawiris with benefiting from his close association ‎with the ousted Mubarak regime, which sold the tycoon large ‎tracts of state land at a discount that he later resold at ...

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SCAF's Violations Resemble Mubarak's Abuses: Amnesty Report

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The rights group's report on Arab Spring says the ruling military council in Egypt has fallen far short of satisfying the people's hopes; some council's violations are worse than during the days under the ousted dictator. Amnesty International’s 2011 Middle East report, Year of Rebellion: State of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa, released Monday 9 January 2012, in its chapter on Egypt sheds light on the violations committed by the ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) since they took power when Mubarak stepped down in February.  “In its early statements, the SCAF said that the armed forces would continue to protect ‘protesters regardless ...

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Free Egyptians Party Announces Boycott of Upper House Elections

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In a press conference the liberal party announces that it will boycott the upper house elections and calls the vote "a waste of time." The Free Egyptians party has announced on Monday that the party is going to boycott the upcoming upper house elections scheduled to be held from 29 January until 22 February 2012. The elections were initially scheduled to be held in three stages ending on 12 March, but the military council reduced this in December to two stages, under pressure to shorten the transitional period under military rule. In its Monday press conference, the party announced that it was going to boycott the upper house elections because of ...

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Central Cairo Prosecution Refers Naguib Sawiris to Court for Contempt of Religion

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Christian businessman and founder of The Free Egyptians Party will face charges of disrespecting Islam for tweeting a controversial image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse wearing conservative Muslim attire. The Prosecution Office of Central Cairo decided to refer outspoken billionaire Naguib Sawiris to court for contempt of religion on Monday after he published a contraversial cartoon online. Islamist lawyer Mamdouh Ismail filed a complaint to the public prosecution office accusing the famously-outspoken Coptic Christian businessman and politician of disrespecting Islam after posting the offending image on his official Twitter account in June ...

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Amnesty International Slams Western Reactions Towards Arab Spring

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The renowned rights group criticise the inconsistency and "double standards" of international community in their report on human rights abuses during the regional revolutions. Renowned rights group Amnesty International has published a comprehensive report on human rights in the Middle East and North Africa during 2011 including condemning the reaction of the international community, who, the report says, are looking to protect their own interests. The report titled Year of Rebellion: State of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa, which describes 2011 as “historic” and “tumultuous”, discusses the rights  issue in each country where uprisings, ...

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Brothers Tread Cautiously

On the cusp of winning a parliamentary majority, the Muslim Brotherhood's survival as Egypt's leading political force will hinge on how they address the legacy of Mubarak's three decades in power. This should be a time for the Muslim Brotherhood to savour their election victory. The final results of the parliamentary elections that ended yesterday will determine whether or not its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), secures a majority, i.e., half the People's Assembly seats plus one. ...

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Activist Abou Doma Denies Attacking Army, Allowed to Attend Exams

Member of Youth for Justice and Freedom Movement detained for thirty days on charges of inciting violence against army during last month's Cairo clashes. Egyptian authorities have detained political activist Ahmed Abou Doma on charges of inciting violence against the army and encouraging attacks on public property during clashes in central Cairo in mid-December. The defendant was arrested on the order of judges Wageeh El-Shaeer and Wagdy Abdel Azim, both commissioned by the Ministry of Justice to ...

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Islamist "Morality Police" to Train Volunteers in Using Electric Batons

A controversial hardliner group in Egypt announces that it purchased 1000 tazers to help its cadre defend themselves as they 'promote virtue' on the country's streets. The self-proclaimed islamist "Morality Police" announced on its new official Facebook page that it has acquired 1,000 tazers to be distributed to volunteers who will promote "virtue" and combat "vice" in the Egyptian street. The "Morality Police", which models itself on a similar group in Saudi ...

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Third-round Parliamentary Run-Offs Wrap Up in Nine Governorates

The third and final round of Egypt's first post-revolution elections draw to close Wednesday amid scattered reports of irregularities. Third-round run-off elections in Egypt’s first post-Mubarak parliamentary polls were held for the second and final day on Wednesday. According to midday reports, polling stations in several governorates had seen a relatively low turnout. Runoffs are currently being held in nine Egyptian governorates (Qalioubiya, Gharbiya, Dakhaliya, North and South Sinai, Marsa Matrouh, ...

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Ayman Nour Questioned Over Role in Cabinet Clashes

Presidential hopeful arrives at court Tuesday to answer charges of inciting December's violent clashes outside Cabinet building. Would-be presidential contender Ayman Nour arrived at a ‎courtroom in New Cairo on Tuesday where he will be questioned ‎about his role in last month’s violent clashes between anti-‎government protesters and security forces near the Egyptian ‎Cabinet building in downtown Cairo   Nour has been accused of inciting the 16 December clashes, ‎which ...

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Muslim Brotherhood Met with Mubarak After His Ouster, Claims Newspaper

MB spokesperson threatens legal action after newspaper editor-in-chief says Muslim Brotherhood leaders met with the former president to assure him they would not dispute the verdict if the court finds him innocent. n its first issue, published Tuesday, the new independent weekly newspaper named “Veto” claimed Muslim Brotherhood (MB) General Guide Mohamed Badei had recently met with ousted president Hosni Mubarak.  MB spokesperson Mahmoud Ghuzlan denied the allegations telling ONTV program ...

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Revolutionary Figures Remain Targets for Military

Five prominent revolutionaries face serious legal charges as tensions escalate between Egypt's activist community and ruling military. As recent events have shown, Egyptian personalities that have become symbols of the Egyptian revolution are now becoming targets for legal prosecution. So far, at least five prominent revolutionary figures have been formally charged with crimes in cases linked to recent escalations between anti-government protesters and security forces. Prominent blogger Alaa ...

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Revolutionary Preacher and Activist Summoned for Investigation on Cabinet Clampdown

Prominent revolutionary Muslim preacher and rights lawyer will be interrogated on allegations of inciting violence in December. The sheikh of Omar Makram Mosque located on Tahrir Square, Mazhar Shahin, known as the “Tahrir preacher”, and prominent activist Nawara Negm have been summoned by prosecutors in relation to bloody clashes in December following a clampdown on a sit-in at the nearby Cabinet headquarters. Investigating judges reportedly received complaints that Shahin and Negm, along with ...

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Rights Group to Sue Ganzouri, 50 ex-Egyptian Ministers Over Corrupt Privatization

Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights to sue current prime minister and others for corrupt sell-off of state assets. The head of the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR), Khaled Ali, and political activist Hamdi Fakhrany have announced their intention to open legal proceedings against around fifty former and serving ministers following the Administrative Court's ruling on the corrupt privatisation of Egyptian state firms. Egypt’s current Prime Minister Kamal ...

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Ayman Nour Believes Military Summoning a Revenge Tactic

Presidential hopeful Nour denies being involved in last month's clashes, claiming prosecution's summons is political retribution for filing a complaint against Egypt's ruling military council. Presidential hopeful Ayman Nour, founder of the liberal Ghad Al-Thawra (‘The Revolution’s Tomorrow’) Party, responded to allegations by eyewitnesses of last month’s Cabinet clashes, fingering him for inciting the violence, by claiming that the accusations were politically motivated Though he has not received any ...

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