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No political detainees in 13 inspected jails: Public prosecution
Date: 2014-09-17 18:01:50 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:61 - ID:960329
The public prosecution has asserted that there are no political detainees in the 13 prisons it inspected. The prosecution members inspected all buildings in the 13 facilities including wards, cells. They conducted unmonitored interviews ....
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Azhar Imam urges establishing Arab economic unity
Date: 2014-09-17 18:01:10 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:60 - ID:960325
Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayyeb called for establishing a real and effective Arab economic unity that could help bring stability and progress to the region. This came during a meeting on Wednesday with head of the Council of Arab Economic ....
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Sabahi urges release of Doma, prisoners of conscience
Date: 2014-09-17 16:20:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:59 - ID:959661
Former presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi called for the release of political activist Ahmed Doma. In his Twitter account, Sabahi said that Doma's health condition is serious, calling for rescuing his life and releasing him and all the prisoners ....
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Cairo Univ. head, Egypt amb. to UNESCO visit under-restoration museum
Date: 2014-09-17 14:57:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:57 - ID:959177
President of Cairo University Gaber Nassar and Egypt's Ambassador to UNESCO Mohamed Amr visited on Wednesday the under-restoration museum of the Faculty of Archaeology in Bein Al Sarayat neighborhood of Giza. Several monuments and excavations are ....
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Hariri hosts banquet in honor of Egypt's Grand Mufti
Date: 2014-09-17 14:52:38 GMT - Lebanon - Egypt - SN:55 - ID:959121
Lebanon's former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri held Wednesday a banquet in honor of Egypt's Grand Mufti Shawki Allam, who is visiting Beirut. Allam arrived here on Tuesday on top of a religious delegation to partake in the ordination ceremony of ....
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Azhar Imam urges establishing Arab economic unity
Date: 2014-09-17 14:12:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:51 - ID:958801
Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayyeb called for establishing a real and effective Arab economic unity that could help bring stability and progress to the region. This came during a meeting on Wednesday with head of the Council of Arab Economic ....
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Watan party withdraws from pro-MB alliance
Date: 2014-09-17 14:09:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:50 - ID:958785
Salafist al-Watan Party withdrew on Wednesday from the so-called the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy. In a press release, the party stressed that it would continue its political struggle in a peaceful manner. It also called for forming ....
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Cabinet amends criminal, traffic laws
Date: 2014-09-17 12:52:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:49 - ID:958205
The Cabinet, under Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, amended on Wednesday some articles of the Criminal Procedure Law. Under the new amendment, the public prosecution will have the right to ask the Court of First Instance to delegate one of its ....
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Sisi stresses importance of judicial independence
Date: 2014-09-17 12:51:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:48 - ID:958185
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has stressed the importance of judicial independence, believing it is the only way to achieve justice. Chief justice of the cassation court Hossam Abdel-Rehim said five feddans have been allocated to establish a ....
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Journalists to be questioned by Public Prosecutor over el-Zend lawsuit
Date: 2014-09-17 12:49:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:47 - ID:958157
Chief Editor of Al-Ahram website Hisham Younis and journalist Ahmed Abdel Azeem were summoned to appear at the Prosecutor’s office on Sunday to be questioned about a defamation lawsuit filed by head of the Judges' Club Ahmad el-Zend. El-Zend ....