The National Salvation Front turned down an invitation for a debate between five members of the front and five members of the Constituent Assembly. The invitation was issued by Mohamed al-Beltagy, Constituent Assembly spokesperson and secretary of the Freedom and … read more
The South Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday supported the Illicit Gains Authority’s decision to ban businessman Mounir Thabet, brother of the former president’s wife Suzanne Mubarak, as well as his two sons, Tareq and Khaled, from accessing their money. Thabet … read more
Egypt’s Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) Secretary-General Zaghloul El-Balshi has undergone minor eye surgery Tuesday evening that could prevent him from overseeing Saturday’s second round of the constitutional referendum. A judicial source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Al-Ahram’s Arabic-language … read more
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday expressed to Israel its objection over a recent plan to build 2,600 new settler units in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. This message was relayed when Ambassador Alaa Eddin Youssef, the ministry’s Israel … read more
Bahia ya Masr, a movement that promotes citizenship rights, has called on Egyptian women to protest against the draft constitution on Wednesday at 5pm in front of the Nahdet Masr statue at Cairo University in Giza. The demonstrators will “reject … read more
The results of the first round of the referendum on the constitution illustrated well the deep political divide within post-revolutionary Egypt. Over the last two years, clear polariation has occurred between Egyptians in support of the Islamist current and those … read more
A judicial source at the High Judicial Elections Commission told state-run Al-Ahram website that the HJEC on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Zaghloul al-Balshy, the secretary general, who tendered it for health reasons. In his resignation, Balshy said he did … read more
Al-Hayat satellite channel reported Wednesday night that former President Hosni Mubarak had returned to the Tora Prison Hospital following two hours at the Maadi Military Hospital where he was undergoing tests. Mubarak’s lawyer’s requested the transfer so the former leader … read more
President Mohamed Morsi and Egypt’s top judges have been in a game of tug-of-war for almost three months. The crisis reached a climax late November, when Morsi ordered Mubarak-era prosecutor-general Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud to retire. The fall out from that decision … read more
Essam El-Erian, vice chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), told the Turkish Anadolu news agency on Tuesday that the new prosecutor-general will be selected according to the new constitution once approved. Egypt’s Prosecutor-General Talaat Abdullah submitted … read more