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Update: Parliament to discuss NGO funding case, Ganzouri not to attend
Egypt
March 11, 2012
Update: Parliament to discuss NGO funding case, Ganzouri not to attend
Parliament on Sunday will discuss the NGO funding case and circumstances around a decision to lift the travel ban on…
Egyptian FM: US aid ‘distorts’ bilateral relations
Egypt
March 9, 2012
Egyptian FM: US aid ‘distorts’ bilateral relations
American financial aid to Egypt is not “eternal” and “distorts the nature of bilateral relations” between the two countries, Egypt's…
NGO trial lawyer demands espionage charge amid trial uproar
Egypt
March 8, 2012
NGO trial lawyer demands espionage charge amid trial uproar
The continuation of the trial of five foreign-based NGOs accused of illegally accepting foreign funds began and ended in uproar…
Rights group to UN: Egypt civil society suffering worst crackdown in its history
Egypt
March 7, 2012
Rights group to UN: Egypt civil society suffering worst crackdown in its history
Freedom of association in Egypt is suffering “the worst crackdown since [civil society’s] emergence in 1985,” the Cairo Institute for…
NGO draft law to be ready in a month, govt adviser says
Egypt
March 7, 2012
NGO draft law to be ready in a month, govt adviser says
The government will finish writing a new draft law governing NGOs in a month, according to a legal adviser to…
Ganzouri: NGO foreign funding case is responsibility of judiciary
Egypt
March 6, 2012
Ganzouri: NGO foreign funding case is responsibility of judiciary
The NGO foreign funding case “is the responsibility of the judiciary and no executive official has the right to interfere…
SCAF denies intervening to cancel NGO workers’ travel ban
Egypt
March 5, 2012
SCAF denies intervening to cancel NGO workers’ travel ban
The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Monday defended itself against accusations that it had pressured an Egyptian…
NGOs illegally received LE3 billion, says source
Egypt
March 5, 2012
NGOs illegally received LE3 billion, says source
Civil society organizations in Egypt received LE600 million last year in legal funding and LE3 billion in illegal funding, said…
Decision to lift NGO suspect travel ban made only by judiciary, paper says
Egypt
March 5, 2012
Decision to lift NGO suspect travel ban made only by judiciary, paper says
Egypt’s decision to lift the travel ban on the foreign defendants in the NGO funding case was purely a judicial…
Parliament bans journalists from covering meeting with Abouelnaga
Egypt
March 4, 2012
Parliament bans journalists from covering meeting with Abouelnaga
The People’s Assembly’s Economic Committee banned journalists and media from covering a meeting Sunday with Minister of Planning and International…