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All three judges on Tuesday pulled out of Egypt's trial of 43 pro-democracy workers, including 16 Americans, according to a court official, throwing into question the case that has ripped U.S.-Egypt relations.
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A trial set for Sunday in Egypt of at least 16 Americans could have far-reaching implications for the pro-democracy movement that has been sweeping the Middle East.
Barring some last-minute flourish of face-saving diplomacy, it also could mean a setback to the U.S. government's efforts since the Cold War to combat authoritarian regimes and to promote human rights.
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Forty-three NGO workers, including 16 Americans, went on trial in Cairo on Sunday in a case that has sent U.S-Egyptian relations plummeting to their most serious low in decades. For hours, the 13 defendants who attended the session — all Egyptians — sat in the caged docket as a packed room of journalists, lawyers, families and spectators jostled and shouted in a paparazzi-like frenzy.
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American diplomats scrambled on Saturday to work out a deal to resolve the criminal charges against 16 Americans here on the eve of their scheduled trial in a case that has threatened to upend the 30-year alliance with Egypt.
As late as Saturday evening, United States officials said they still could not predict what would happen when the trial opens Sunday.
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The prosecution of Americans for promoting democracy in Egypt has been a tale of deceit and false promises by the country’s ruling military council.
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Egyptian authorities stopped an American woman boarding a flight to Germany on Thursday because she is facing trial over illegal funding of civil society groups, an airport official said.
Mary Elizabeth Whitehead, 56, is one of dozens of people who have been barred from leaving Egypt during a judicial investigation into the funding of pro-democracy organisations, said the official, who asked not to be named.
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Election observers from U.S. non-governmental organizations the Carter Center and the National Democratic Institute will for the first time be able to monitor a parliamentary election in Algeria later this year, the interior minister said Tuesday.
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The man set to become Yemen’s president is a soft-spoken technocrat who has good relations with the West and has avoided the limelight during his 18 years of loyal service to the outgoing autocrat.
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The Egyptian prosecution’s summary of the case against at least 16 Americans and others from five democracy and human rights groups focuses largely on the testimony of their accusers, with evidence primarily limited to proof that their organizations used American and other foreign funds for payrolls and rent.
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Egypt said Saturday the criminal trial of 16 Americans and 27 others will start Feb. 26 in a politically charged case against foreign-funded pro-democracy groups that has badly shaken Cairo's ties with Washington.
Les Campbell, Middle East and North Africa director for NDI, said the charges are bogus, but that NDI would cooperate with the legal process.
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