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Egyptian judicial authorities announced on Saturday that 43 civil society workers, including at least 16 Americans, will face trial on Feb. 26 over illegal foreign funding for nongovernmental organizations, diminishing hopes that Washington and Cairo might reach a diplomatic, rather than a legal, resolution to the worsening flap.
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The ousted regime of Hosni Mubarak often invoked foreign conspiracies to justify crackdowns on critics. He is no longer president, but the practice appears to live on...
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U.S. pro-democracy groups on Thursday blamed an Egyptian minister who was a holdover from the era of ousted President Hosni Mubarak for starting a campaign against American democracy activists that has strained U.S.-Cairo ties.
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Egyptian human rights groups condemned Wednesday an impending trial of 43 democracy activists as politically motivated, accusing the authorities of intentionally misleading the public to retain power.
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NDI staff member Mohamed El Wakeel looking out from the cage reserved for defendants at court proceedings Feb. 26. Photo by Tara Todras-Whitehill
NDI welcomed the ruling by an Egyptian court to lift the travel ban on its employees as well as those from the International Republican Institute, Freedom House, the International Center for Journalists and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
NDI has cooperated with the Egyptian investigation and denies all of the accusations against its staff members.
The lifting of the travel ban has enabled NDI’s charged expatriate staff members to return to their home countries. The Institute said it remains deeply concerned about the welfare of its Egyptian employees.
NDI staff member Mohamed El Wakeel looking out from the cage reserved for defendants at court proceedings Feb. 26. Photo by Tara Todras-Whitehill
Noting Egypt’s “tremendous strides” of the past year, 18 former foreign ministers from Europe, Eurasia, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania and the United States have called on Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of Egypt’s military government, to stop the prosecution of nongovernmental organizations.
Author:
Madeleine K. Albright et al.
Publisher:
National Democratic Institute
Published Date:
02/27/2012
Resource Type:
Letter
Language:
English
Author:
National Democratic Institute
Publisher:
National Democratic Institute
Published Date:
02/17/2012
Resource Type:
Report
Language:
Arabic, English, French
Author:
Kenneth Wollack
Publisher:
National Democratic Institute
Published Date:
02/16/2012
Resource Type:
Testimony
Language:
English
Media Type:
PDF
The goal of NDI's democracy programs, said NDI President Kenneth Wollack, "is to support a transparent, democratic process that gives people the freedom to make choices." Wollack was testifying before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs at a hearing entitled "Egypt at a Crossroads." The panel heard from witnesses from the four U.S.-based nongovernmental organizations (NGO) that were raided by Egyptian authorities in December, and that have employees now banned from leaving the country and facing the possibility of trial.
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The United States has received a document from Egyptian authorities that lays out charges against the staff of U.S. and international democracy-building groups, the State Department said Tuesday.
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