Revolutie in Egypte #190: Waar Mubarak berecht wordt.

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Egypt's military rulers have set 21 November as the date for a vote for People's Assembly (lower house of parliament), the country's first poll since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted seven months ago, the head of the election commission said Saturday.

Abdel Moaez Ibrahim said voting for Shura Council – the upper house of parliament- will take place two months later on 22 January.

He said balloting for the People's Assembly will be held in three stages ending on 3 January.

Ibrahim’s statement comes few hours before a meeting between top members of the Military Council and leaders of several political parties.

The majority of Egypt’s parties advocate that elections should be held under the proportional representation system, vehemently rejecting the current parliamentary elections law which stipulates that half of the 508-seat parliament be elected through the individual candidacy system.

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Op zondag 18 september 2011 01:50 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:

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Niet te vroeg juichen. We wachten nog steeds op Salem.....

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Op zondag 18 september 2011 02:29 schreef Drifter__ het volgende:
Aha, dat verklaart.
Dit persbericht(?) is twee dagen oud, maar nog steeds niet opgepikt door de Egyptische media?

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The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday sentenced police officer Tamer Sami Refaat to five years in prison for killing a female demonstrator in Nasr City on 28 January, during the revolution’s Friday of Anger.

Refaat was also ordered to pay LE10,000 in compensation.

This is the first verdict to be handed down for the killing of a protester during the 25 January revolution.

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A survey by the cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Center, published on Sunday, revealed that 58 percent of the sample said they would not vote for a president of a different religion than their own, while 36 percent said they would.

But the survey said that 60 percent said they would consider voting for candidates of a different religion in parliamentary elections, and 37 percent saying they would not.

It also said that 73 percent of Egyptians, Muslims and Christians, are religious and pray regularly.

The survey also found that 38 percent of the sample were willing to have friends of other religions, while 62 percent did not, 87 percent would not mind having a neighbor of a different religion, while 13 percent said they would, and 69 percent would buy from shop owners of other religions, while 31 percent would not.

It also said that 16 percent agree to omitting the reference of religion on ID cards, while 76 percent were against it, 82 percent believed the government does not differentiate between Muslims and Christians, while 25 percent said it responds more favorably to demands by Christians, and 24 percent said it does not appoint Christians to high posts, while 10 percent said it puts stifling conditions on the building of churches.

Concerning problems between Muslims and Christians, 78 percent said there were not any, while 19 percent said there were. Of these affirming the existence of sectarian problems, 50 percent claimed the existence of foreign elements were behind it, 43 percent blamed the former regime, while 9 percent blamed Muslims and 8 percent blamed Christians.

On political candidates endorsed by clerics, 65 percent said they would not be affected by a clerics’ opinion, 16 percent said they would consider it, and 14 percent said they would follow their cleric's recommendation.

On clerics running for political positions, 29 percent were in favor, 22 percent rejected it, and 5 percent were undecided.

On the Muslim Brotherhood, 25 percent said they support it, 25 percent said they were indifferent to it, and 21 percent said they were against it.

On Salafis, 41 percent partially believed the negative image of them portrayed in the media, 40 percent did not, and 5 percent said they have never heard of the Salafis before.

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Former MP Abdel Nasser al-Gabry died on Tuesday afternoon at the International Medical Center in Cairo, suffering from an advanced form of cancer.

Gabry was one of 25 Mubarak regime figures currently being tried for funding and planning a bloody attack by camel and horse riders on pro-democracy protesters on 2 February, during the 18-day uprising that ended the rule of former President Hosni Mubarak.

The assault was publicly known as the Battle of the Camel.

Gabry was arrested on 11 March when investigators discovered his reported involvement in the attack. He spent most of his detention in Tora prison, south of Cairo, but was later hospitalized in May when his health deteriorated.

Other defendants in the case include former People’s Assembly Speaker Fathi Sorour, former Shura Council Speaker Safwat al-Sherif, former Manpower and Immigration Minister Aisha Abdel Hady, and several former members of the previously-ruling National Democratic Party.

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Tomorrow there will be another million man protest at Tahrir square and unlike previous million protests there is a real consensus on its goals above them : Rejecting the emergency law.
Not only the emergency law is rejected but there are other demands that are related to the elections laws. Here are the demands most political groups and parties participating in the protest.
Ending the emergency law
Amending the elections law
Activating the treachery law to ban the remnants of NDP
Setting a date for presidency elections
Shorter timeline for power transition.
Ending the military trials for civilians
The participation will be high according to what see as many parties including the parties that stood against the million man protests in the past like El Wasat party.
According to my knowledge there is no agreement on sit ins. There will be rallies from mosques and Churches insh Allah. There will be also parallel protests across the country as well.
There are several names for this Friday yet the most common name is “End the emergency law” Friday.
Unsurprisingly the Muslim brotherhood , Islamic group and main Salafists groups have announced that they will not participate in the protest despite the MB is extremely angry from the elections law and is insisting on the closed proportional list. The Muslim brotherhood gave SCAF till the end of the month , here is the end of the month, I do not know what they do next.
I know some adrenaline junkies are dying for clashes tomorrow that would lead in to some Libyan or Yemeni Style because they believe our revolution will not achieve its goals without following these styles.
Of course Tantawy’s appearance in the civilian suit made many people angry and fear from military take over , that scene made me many people decide to join the protest tomorrow.
Anyhow there is a good thing in tomorrow’s protest ,more people are united on more goals.
A youth group called "The revolution Youth Federation" announced that it thinks in the sit in option and that 150 of its members who though of running for the parliament decided to boycott the elections.

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Op zaterdag 1 oktober 2011 23:12 schreef Tourniquet het volgende:
Ik zit nu voor m'n werk in Cairo en de hele avond rijden er al auto's luid toeterend voorbij (nog meer dan anders ), met vlaggen uit de ramen. Het is moeilijk in te schatten wat er aan de hand is, maar de mensen lijken blij.

Edit: Zal hier wel mee te maken hebben: http://op.nu.nl/rhtRMU

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Political forces sharply criticized the military council on Saturday following their exclusion from the meetings of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). They said that most of the parties invited to the meetings were "cartoonish," and did not participate in the revolution.

Ahmed Drag, the coordinator of the National Assembly for Change, said the SCAF intended to invite certain parties that did not represent the people. These meetings were like "dictation classes" where the political forces scarcely talk and listen most of the time to military leaders, he said.

Drag said the demands of the revolution were already known and the parties had submitted them to the military council before.

The military leaders do not need someone to remind them of the demands, said Drag, adding that no single political faction has the right to negotiate away people's demands.

Ahmed Maher, the coordinator of April 6 Youth Movement, fiercely criticized the political parties that accepted the SCAF’s invitation, saying they were the same "cartoonish" parties that supported Safwat al-Sherief, former secretary general of the dissolved National Democratic Party, before the revolution. He added most of these parties used to attack the young protest movements before the revolution.

Salah Adly, chairman of the Communist Party, said the military rulers always, whenever pressed by protests, invite parties to meetings and later on do not implement demands agreed upon. He said the meetings were" useless."

Whenever we go for a meeting with the SCAF we find that half of the guests are former National Democratic Party members, said Essam Sultan vice president of Wasat Party, adding his party decided not to attend any SCAF meetings thereafter.

Ahmed Gebaily , chairman of Al-Shaab Party, criticized the SCAF meetings, saying they were "selective" and excluded many parties.

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Many People got shot infront of me.
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I am ok. I saw peopl get run over and get shot. I also saw an old veiled woman get smacked with a baton like me by military police.
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Fuck
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by Sandmonkey
I got smacked with a baton on my back and then chased down the road. just jumped in a moving cab,
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