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Tunisian protesters hold placards during a demonstration on 23 February on the Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, demanding that opposition leader Chokri Belaid's killers be found (AFP Photo / Fethi Belaid)
assassination

Suspected Salafist killer of Tunisia politician identified

Alleged killer of Chokri Belaid is identified by his own father

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
A sit-in began on Tuesday night in the city of El-Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai calling on the city’s residents, along with those in Rafah and Central Sinai, to protest for 10 days (Photo by Nasser Azizi)
Daily News

Morsi talks with Sinai leaders

President Mohamed Morsi hosts a delegation from Sinai to discuss concerns in…

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
During the clashes CSF used extensive amounts of teargas, in addition to birdshot, while protesters threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at security forces (Photo courtesy of Mansoura City Facebook Fan Page)
civil disobedience

Popular Current claim Brotherhood and CSF block medical supplies

Allegations of Brotherhood militia working with Central Security Forces to prevent medical…

Joel Gulhane
Joel Gulhane
“No one has been held responsible for the violence that has occurred these last two years,” said Mahmoud Belaid, a human rights lawyer. “This must change.” (AFP Photo)
beaten

“They threw us to the ground and beat us”

Stories of abuse from released detainees in Cairo

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
The Administrative Court has cancelled Hosni Mubarak’s 2005 decision which gave governors the right to issue permits to allow building or demolishing churches. (AFP Photo)
administrative

Court: Governors will not give permission to build or demolish churches

The Administrative Court has cancelled the decision of ousted President Hosni Mubarak

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
Al-Raya Party

Abu Ismail initiates Al-Raya Party

The party will run for 100% of the parliamentary seats

Fady Salah
Fady Salah
The Egyptian Coalition on Children’s Rights (ECCR) released a report titled “Our Children are Objects of Political Exploitation” (AFP Photo)
arbitrary

13 minors arrested in Tahrir

Human rights organisations reject children’s detention alongside adults

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy
The Interior Ministry said on Wednesday it had not instituted any provisions regarding the bearded police officers (File photo) Photo By Mohamed Omar
Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya

Bearded police officers await ministry reacceptance

Islamist parties call on the Interior Ministry to respect the judicial ruling…

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Al Gizawy

Saudi court accepts Al-Gizawy and Bakr appeal

Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that Saudi court will hear the appeals…

Joel Gulhane
Joel Gulhane
Islamist students attack students of the Bourguiba Language Institute in the El Khadra neighbourhood, a Salafist bastion, of the capital Tunis, as they try to prevent the filming of current Internet craze the "Harlem Shake" (AFP Photo )
Ennahda

Salafists fail to stop ‘Harlem Shake’ in Tunisia

A number of social media sites belonging to Salafists and other Islamist…

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt