- MB in Arabian press
- September 21, 2007
- 19 minutes read
Has this year’s brotherhood Ramadan banquet been banned?
Earlier
Emphasizing the negatives in the latest US religious freedom report…
Legal rights group
being closed down by the government…San Francisco Chronicle tries to analyze the political
moment…Bedouins
threaten to block border with Israel… Earlier: Reuters covers a peaceful Bedouin protest…. Pravda has more…“One of the key witnesses and co-defendants in the trial of opposition leader Ayman Nour was found
hanged in his prison cell …” Earlier: Ayman Nour release request rejected again… Condi comments on Nour… Her lack of democracy promotion disheartens some…Magazine suggests pressure to democratize will
grow, with or without America pushing for it..A BBC correspondent has a memorable
experience while reporting a robbery at a Cairo police station…Daily Star”s Rami Khouri is
harsh on realities… Saadeddin Ibrahim writes another scathing anti-Mubarak piece in the Post — and admits he may be a little worried about coming back to Cairo… Saad”s plight highlighted by AP…“
MSNBC wonders whether German tourists will soon be asking “hotels for information on why emergency powers have been in place since the early 1980s?” Earlier: June 2008 end of emergency state, even if new anti-terror law not passed by then…“Family of a 13-year-old boy who died after being released from custody are
suing the police for allegedly torturing their son to death…” Official denials… Earlier: Siwa police torture accusations to be investigated… Earlier: Official investigation of torture at an Alexandria police station…Step by step…
AFP reports that the “ruling party is to elect its leader for the first time in a move geared towards eventually offering the President”s son the country”s top job…”Sinai Bedouin protests
turn violent… More…Everyone”s analyzing…
BBC takes note of the growing strike movement, while blogger Baheyya looks at the recent rise of protests demanding water and other rights…Details of the big US arms sale
emerge… Earlier: Condi announces ten year military deal with Egypt before heading for region… More anger at US interference from Abul-Gheit… More DC trips… Abul-Gheit says Cheney and Rice are against withholding aid… Crucial timing… Carnegie scholars tell the US not to give up on democracy promotion in Egypt… (pdf)… Storm in a teacup? VOA says White House is not in favor of withholding aid… More tough words from the Egyptian ambassador to Washington on the US threat to withhold aid… Earlier: Retro pressure? US may delay delivery of $200 million in military aid until Cairo “improves its human rights record,” Reuters reports. Meanwhile, IOL is the quickest to report Egypt”s reaction, via Abul Gheit”s angry remarks…