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New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch issued a report Wednesday criticizing the US and other governments in the West and Middle East for sending Islamist detainees to Egypt, a country infamous for torture . The...

Egypt's lower house of Parliament overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the Egyptian Constitution Tuesday setting regulations for multi-candidate presidential elections . The upper house had passed the regulations Sunday, which require candidates to be a...

Hans Blix , former UN chief weapons inspector and current head of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission , said in a New York press conference Monday that the US is undermining its position as a nuclear...

Egypt's upper house of parliament Sunday approved an amendment to the Egyptian Constitution setting regulations for Egypt's first multi-candidate presidential election despite fear in some quarters that the guidelines would exclude serious contenders from running. Egyptians have typically...

A leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood announced Saturday through his lawyer that he would run as a candidate against Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak in upcoming elections, although his party has not formally endorsed his candidacy....

Efforts by delegates from 188 countries attending the UN's 2005 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference to agree on a final agenda were foiled Friday by Egypt's last-minute call for the meeting to include a review of how...

Still at Risk: Diplomatic Assurances No Safeguard against Torture, Human Rights Watch , April 15, 2005 [reporting that governments in both North America and Europe have negligently relied upon promises of humane treatment in order to transfer terror suspects to...

Egyptian judges have threatened not to supervise presidential and parliamentary elections due later this year unless the government amends laws which limit judicial power and prevent the convening of free and fair elections. The judges say that...

Human Rights Watch said in a new report Friday that governments in both North America and Europe have negligently relied upon promises of humane treatment in order to transfer terror suspects to states with well-established records...

In a strong move for a government-funded body, the first annual report of the Egyptian Supreme Council for Human Rights has confirmed the widespread belief that the country's security forces are involved in torture. The Council noted...