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Kamala Harris Campaign Hires Arab Lawyer For Voter Outreach Amid Gaza War
Kamala Harris' campaign for US president has hired an Egyptian American lawyer and former Department of Homeland Security official to help lead outreach to Arab American voters who hold sway in some states that could help decide the Nov. 5 election
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Egypt Court Sentences Woman Activist Who Slammed Sexual Harassment
An Egyptian court Saturday handed a two-year suspended jail sentence to a woman human rights activist arrested in May after posting a video criticising sexual harassment in Egypt, her lawyer said.
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Egypt Monk Detained Over Murder Of Bishop
An Egyptian Coptic monk accused of murder has been detained and will remain in custody for four days pending investigations into the suspicious death of a bishop, his lawyer said Saturday.
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Egypt Jails 14 For Homosexuality
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 14 men convicted of being homosexuals to three years in jail each for "abnormal" sexual relations, a defence lawyer said.
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Egyptian Prosecutor Allows For Hosni Mubarak Release
A prosecutor allowed Monday for Hosni Mubarak to be released, his lawyer said, after an appeals court acquitted Egypt's ex-president of involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising.
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EgyptAir Hijacker Was Against Government Injustices, Says His Lawyer
An Egyptian man who hijacked a plane and forced it to be diverted to Cyprus did so to draw attention to injustices in his homeland, his lawyer said on Monday.
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Egypt Jails 152 Over Anti-Government Protests
Egyptian courts have handed out jail sentences on the weekend to 152 people for taking part in unlicensed anti-government protests, judicial officials and lawyers said on Sunday.
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Egypt Student Held Over Anti-Torture T-Shirt Freed On Bail
An Egyptian court on Tuesday released on bail a student arrested more than two years ago for wearing a T-shirt with an anti-torture slogan, his lawyer and a court official said.
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Egypt Sentences 4 Coptic Teenagers For Contempt Of Islam
An Egyptian lawyer says a court in the country's south has convicted four Coptic teenagers of contempt for Islam after they appeared in a video mocking Muslim prayers.
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Why Human Rights Lawyer Amal Clooney is Battling Tony Blair's Wife
Amal Clooney, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer, is known for attracting high-profile cases. In the past year alone, she represented Armenia in the European Court of Human Rights, sparred with the Egyptian government over the independence of its judiciary, and argued the case of the Chagos Islanders, an Indian Ocean people forced out ...
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Egypt Jails Student Over Facebook Atheism Page
An Egyptian court has sentenced a student to one year in jail for insulting Islam and promoting atheism on a Facebook page, his lawyer and judicial sources said on Wednesday.
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Egypt Sets Retrial Date for Jailed Journalists, Says Lawyer
Egyptian authorities have set Feb. 12 as the start date of a retrial for two jailed Al Jazeera journalists, the lawyer for one of the defendants said today.
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Amal Clooney Disputes Arrest Warning Story
British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has disputed a story reporting how Egyptian officials warned her she risked arrest last year if she released a report in Cairo critical of the judiciary.
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Al-Jazeera Journalists Face More Jail Time, Seek Deportation
Three Al-Jazeera journalists faced today the prospect of at least several more weeks in Egyptian prison, with two of them awaiting a decision on whether they can be deported, lawyers and relatives said.
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Pioneering Egyptian Civil Rights Lawyer Dies at 63
One of Egypt's most prominent civil rights lawyer and campaigner Ahmed Seif has died from complications of heart surgery. He was 63.
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Kamala Harris Campaign Hires Arab Lawyer For Voter Outreach Amid Gaza War
Kamala Harris' campaign for US president has hired an Egyptian American lawyer and former Department of Homeland Security official to help lead outreach to Arab American voters who hold sway in some states that could help decide the Nov. 5 election
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Egypt Court Sentences Woman Activist Who Slammed Sexual Harassment
An Egyptian court Saturday handed a two-year suspended jail sentence to a woman human rights activist arrested in May after posting a video criticising sexual harassment in Egypt, her lawyer said.
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Egypt Monk Detained Over Murder Of Bishop
An Egyptian Coptic monk accused of murder has been detained and will remain in custody for four days pending investigations into the suspicious death of a bishop, his lawyer said Saturday.
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Egypt Jails 14 For Homosexuality
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 14 men convicted of being homosexuals to three years in jail each for "abnormal" sexual relations, a defence lawyer said.
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Egyptian Prosecutor Allows For Hosni Mubarak Release
A prosecutor allowed Monday for Hosni Mubarak to be released, his lawyer said, after an appeals court acquitted Egypt's ex-president of involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising.
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EgyptAir Hijacker Was Against Government Injustices, Says His Lawyer
An Egyptian man who hijacked a plane and forced it to be diverted to Cyprus did so to draw attention to injustices in his homeland, his lawyer said on Monday.
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Egypt Jails 152 Over Anti-Government Protests
Egyptian courts have handed out jail sentences on the weekend to 152 people for taking part in unlicensed anti-government protests, judicial officials and lawyers said on Sunday.
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Egypt Student Held Over Anti-Torture T-Shirt Freed On Bail
An Egyptian court on Tuesday released on bail a student arrested more than two years ago for wearing a T-shirt with an anti-torture slogan, his lawyer and a court official said.
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Egypt Sentences 4 Coptic Teenagers For Contempt Of Islam
An Egyptian lawyer says a court in the country's south has convicted four Coptic teenagers of contempt for Islam after they appeared in a video mocking Muslim prayers.
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Why Human Rights Lawyer Amal Clooney is Battling Tony Blair's Wife
Amal Clooney, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer, is known for attracting high-profile cases. In the past year alone, she represented Armenia in the European Court of Human Rights, sparred with the Egyptian government over the independence of its judiciary, and argued the case of the Chagos Islanders, an Indian Ocean people forced out ...
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Egypt Jails Student Over Facebook Atheism Page
An Egyptian court has sentenced a student to one year in jail for insulting Islam and promoting atheism on a Facebook page, his lawyer and judicial sources said on Wednesday.
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Egypt Sets Retrial Date for Jailed Journalists, Says Lawyer
Egyptian authorities have set Feb. 12 as the start date of a retrial for two jailed Al Jazeera journalists, the lawyer for one of the defendants said today.
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Amal Clooney Disputes Arrest Warning Story
British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has disputed a story reporting how Egyptian officials warned her she risked arrest last year if she released a report in Cairo critical of the judiciary.
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Al-Jazeera Journalists Face More Jail Time, Seek Deportation
Three Al-Jazeera journalists faced today the prospect of at least several more weeks in Egyptian prison, with two of them awaiting a decision on whether they can be deported, lawyers and relatives said.
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Pioneering Egyptian Civil Rights Lawyer Dies at 63
One of Egypt's most prominent civil rights lawyer and campaigner Ahmed Seif has died from complications of heart surgery. He was 63.
