An Egyptian panel boycotted by Christians and liberals on Friday adopted a draft constitution with an Islamist bent that activists are unhappy with.
The Arab League has met for talks to extend its observer mission to Syria, with Riyadh ‘pulling its observers’ as Damascus has not kept its promises.
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/ 25 December 2011
Egypt’s judiciary has decided to free blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has spent the past two months in custody for inciting violence.
Egyptian media on Monday accused "anti-revolutionaries" of trying to trigger sectarian conflict.
Sectarian clashes killed at least 13 people in Cairo on Wednesday as old regime diehards attacked pro-democracy protesters.
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/ 14 February 2007
Iraq clamped a raft of draconian new security rules on its war-torn capital on Wednesday amid mystery over the whereabouts of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whom United States officials say has fled to Iran. US defence officials claimed that the anti-American cleric had travelled to Tehran two or three weeks ago.