Hosni Mubarak’s lawyer has painted him as "a just man, not a tyrant", adding his accusers have no evidence to support their claims against him.
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/ 16 January 2012
Human Rights Watch has urged Egypt’s new Parliament to scrap laws dating from the Hosni Mubarak regime that curb freedoms and "shield" official abuse.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s party is poised to take 45% of Egypt’s seats amid soaring public expectations but with few concrete powers to deliver reform.
Egypt’s two main Islamist parties claim to have together taken 62% of the vote in the general election’s final stage, maintaining their overall lead.
Prosecutors want the death sentence for former president Hosni Mubarak for his role in the killing of protesters in the uprising that unseated him.
Egypt’s fallen dictator Hosni Mubarak had to be wheeled into court on a stretcher as his trial over the deaths of protesters resumed on Monday.
Egyptian security forces have stormed the offices of pro-democracy groups that they say are fomenting protests with the help of foreign funding.
Egypt’s former strongman Hosni Mubarak has returned to the defendant’s metal cage as his trial has resumed after a three-month break.
Egyptian activists have called a mass rally in Cairo against the army’s handling of protests that killed 17 people and drew international criticism.
Egypt is holding the latest round of its first democratic parliamentary election in relative calm after five days of violent protests in Cairo.
Egyptians have gone to the polls in parliamentary elections after six days of violence in Cairo that has cast a pall over the transition to democracy.
The latest round of fighting that began on Friday has left 12 dead and 500 injured, according to health ministry officials.
Egyptian Islamist parties were leading liberals in the parliamentary election’s second round, according to an initial count a day after polls closed.
While Egypt’s secular activists were outflanked in the parliamentary elections by Islamists, they are ready for heavy battle with military leadership.
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/ 7 December 2011
Amnesty International says the US continued to provide Egypt with ammunition, even as security forces held a violent crackdown on state dissenters.
From Charlie Sheen to the Arab Spring, Twitter has revealed the most talked about #hashtag topics for 2011, with events in Egypt leading the pack.
Islamist parties captured more than 60% of the vote in the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections, according to the latest partial results.
Egypt’s fashionable and rich elite fear a victory for the Muslim Brotherhood and hardline Salafis in the first phase of parliamentary elections.
Tarek Mustafa was shot dead on January 28, a police bullet flying through the 24-year-old’s neck as he stood in Cairo’s Sayeda Zeinab Square.
In a victory for political Islamists, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party are ahead in Egypt’s first elections since Mubarak’s ouster.
Fears of violence in Egypt have been unfounded, with no major violations or security incidents reported in its first free ballot in over 80 years.
Egyptians have voted in their first election since a revolt ousted Hosni Mubarak, amid fears the generals who replaced him would cling to power.
Egyptians are embarking on the first big test of their revolution against Hosni Mubarak, amid vociferous distrust of the interim military caretakers.
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/ 27 November 2011
In the run-up to Egypt’s first vote since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, protesters have gathered again to evict the generals who replaced him.
Young activists have organised a vote for a civilian council to guard their revolution from Egypt’s rulers who they no longer trust.
Egypt’s ruling generals accused by human rights group after morgue workers in Cairo contradict official claims.
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/ 24 November 2011
The Arab Spring, eurozone crisis and looming US elections has thrown the global political landscape into turmoil in 2011.
Egyptians will vote in the first legislative elections since Hosni Mubarak was ousted but a deadly countdown has cast a shadow over Egypt’s polls.
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/ 23 November 2011
Running battles have flared in central Cairo even after Egyptian military police reinforced riot police guarding the interior ministry.
Egypt’s army chief has promised a swifter handover to civilian rule but failed to convince thousands of demonstrators who are battling police.
Generals have opened crisis talks with civilian political leaders after widespread violence continued to plunge Egypt into turmoil.
Fresh clashes have erupted in Cairo’s Tahrir Square between police and protesters demanding an end to military rule, as the death toll rose further.