Egypt Sentences 683 To Death In Another Mass Trial

Egyptians help a woman overcome by emotion after a judge sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president over acts of violence and the murder of policemen in the latest mass trial in the southern city of Minya, Egypt, Monday, April 28, 2014. Under the law, Monday’s verdicts in Minya have […]

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MINYA, Egypt (AP) — A judge in Egypt on Monday sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president, including the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader, the latest in mass trials that have drawn international condemnation and stunned rights groups. The same judge also upheld the death penalty for 37 of 529

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Dissent As Murder: Egyptian Court Sentences 529 Men To Death In One Ruling

‘Nothing can describe this scandal. This is not a judicial sentence, this is thuggery.’

Jon Queally
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An Egyptian judge sentenced 529 men to death on Monday for participating in protests that led to the death of a single police officer during clashes last August which followed the military overthrow of democratically-elected President Mohamed Morsi in July. All of those sentenced are believed to be members or supporters of the Muslim

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Egypt: El-Sissi Gives New Sign Of Presidential Run

El-Sissi is considered almost certain to win if he runs for president, riding on a wave of popular fervor since he ousted the country’s first freely elected president, Islamist Mohammed Morsi, who had faced massive protests demanding his removal after a year in office.

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Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military chief, Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, gave his strongest indication yet that he intends to enter presidential elections, saying in a speech Tuesday that he "can't turn his back" if Egyptians want him to run. El-Sissi is considered almost certain to win if he runs for president, riding on a wave of popular

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Egypt’s Military-Backed Government Resigns

The outgoing prime minister acknowledged the difficult conditions in which his Cabinet functioned, but suggested that Egypt was in a better place now that it was when he first took office.

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Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Hazem el-Beblawi, Sedki Sobhi

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interim prime minister announced Monday the resignation of his Cabinet, a surprise move that could be designed in part to pave the way for the nation's military chief to leave his defense minister's post to run for president. Hazem el-Beblawi's military-backed government was sworn in on July 16, less than two weeks after

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Rights Group Denounces Egypt Reporters Trial

Egyptian authorities have long depicted Al-Jazeera as biased toward Morsi and the Brotherhood.

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Journalists hold placards as they demonstrate

CAIRO (AP) — A rights group on Thursday denounced Egypt's stand on freedom of expression as 20 employees of the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera network went on trial, accused of membership in a terrorist organization and also for aiding it. The New York-based Human Rights Watch described as "politicized" the charges against the Al-Jazeera employees, who

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Mohammad Abbas, Egyptian Revolutionary, Comes To America

Three years after Hosni Mubarak stepped down, one of the revolution’s young stars met with US officials in Washington and toured Boston.

Charles M. Sennott
بواسطة Charles M. Sennott

BOSTON – Mohammad Abbas looked out over Boston Harbor and saw the history of the American Revolution. On a cold, clear day last week, he gazed at the white spire of Old North Church, where in 1775 two lanterns signaled the arrival of British troops by sea, and beyond that Abbas spotted the Bunker Hill Monument where the revolutionary militias

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