23 Jun 2009 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
Released political prisoner and writer Abd Al-Monem Monieb was detained in Cairo airport for 45 minutes by state security officers. Their actions prohibited him from travelling to Lebanon where he was due to publicise his book on Islam in Egypt. Read more here
28 May 2009 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
Farouk Hosny Egypt’s culture minister, and candidate to lead Unesco, the UN’s cultural arm, has expressed “solemn regret” over a May 2008 pledge to burn Israeli books in Egyptian libraries. Read more here
27 May 2009 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
Egyptian blogger Tamer Mabrouk has been fined nearly 6,000 euros as the result of a defamation lawsuit by a private company, Trust Chemical Co., over information about pollution that he posted online. Read more here
20 May 2009 | Middle East and North Africa, Resources
The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights is an organisation working against both governmental and non-governmental human rights violations regardless of the identity or affiliation of the victim(s) or violator(s).