Egypt Facts and Figures

[Egypt Online] Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the chief of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces SCAF conferred on Monday 6/2/2012 Counselor Farouq Sultan, the president of the Supreme Constitutional Court and the head of the Presidential Elections Commission on the legal measures for opening nomination for the presidential elections.

[HRInfo] Egyptian authorities should drop all charges against unregistered nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and stop the criminal investigation of such groups, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities should not take action against NGOs until Egypt's new parliament proposes legislation consistent with international legal standards, Human Rights Watch said. The organizations under investigation are not registered under the Mubarak-era Associations Law, in many cases because the government failed to respond to