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Protesters in Portsaid on Sunday (Photo by Islam Kotb)
ahmed mekki

Port Said update: Minister of Justice responds to demands

Ahmed Mekki assigns judge to investigate 26 January clashes

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy

Monday 18 Feb. 2013, issue 2135

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
civil disobedience

Port Said continues civil disobedience

City entrances closed as more people join the marches

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy
Angry residents of the Wadi Al-Qammar neighbourhood blocked the main Wadi Al-Qammar road, Western Alexandria, on Monday in protest over the violent dissolution of the strike Photo: Portland Cement Factory in Alexandria (Photo: Courtesy of Facebook Fan Page Wadi Al-Qammar)
arrests

Workers’ strike violently dissolved

Police allegedly used dogs to break up the strike, workers arrested

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
A witness to the murder and a friend of the victim said in court she had accompanied her friend to Cablat village when the defendant, identified as Ramadan “Shouna” Nassar sexually harassed her. (AFP-Photo)
Assiut

Harasser’s Killer on trial

The first hearing was held on Sunday in Assiut

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Al-Masry

Wrap: Port Said call for civil disobedience

Trade, industry and transport sectors shut down by marching and blocking streets

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy
“I have met today with [Al-Dostour Party Chairman] Mohamed ElBaradei and [Al-Wafd Party Chairman] El-Sayed El-Badawi to exchange points of view regarding the current political situation,” El-Katatni said (File Photo)(AFP-Photo)
Al-Dostour Party

El-Katatni meets opposition leaders for dialogue

The Freedom and Justice Party Chairman discussed the political situation with NSF…

Ahmed Aboulenein
Ahmed Aboulenein
“Claiming that Mohamed El-Gendy died following a car accident is not very different than claiming that Khaled Said died of suffocation for swallowing drugs.”Ahmed Tala’at, a member of the Nation without Torture (NWT) campaign said Photo:Mohamed El-Gendy (Courtesy of Facebook Page)
El-Gendy

Forensics under fire

Protesters demonstrate against forensic authority, claim organisation is corrupt and misleads torture…

Fady Salah
Fady Salah
The Syrian National Council said that Hezbollah members on Saturday attacked "three Syrian villages in the Qusayr region near the Lebanese border" (AFP-Photo)
bashar al assad

3 Lebanon Shi’as dead in Syria fighting: Hezbollah

The Shi’as party, Lebanon's most powerful military force, occasionally announces the death…

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Ennahda chief Rached Ghannouchi has strongly reiterated his party's refusal to relinquish power in line with an initiative proposed by Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali Photo: Ennahda chief Rached Ghannouchi (AFP-Photo)
belaid

Uncertainty in Tunisia ahead of political talks

Ennahda chief Rached Ghannouchi has strongly reiterated his party's refusal to relinquish…

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt