A commission drawn up by the Minister of Justice met for the first time on Monday to prepare a unified personal status law for non-Muslims amid complaints that the commission had failed to include all parties involved in the issue.
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In light of the ongoing crisis over divorce and remarriage among Copts, a Justice Ministry committee convened on Sunday to discuss a personal status draft law proposed by the Coptic Church to regulate issues pertaining to marriage.
"The law must not (...)
Egyptian judges have disagreed over the government's recent justifications for extending the state of emergency. This came in response to Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif's announcement earlier today of a draft law that would extend the state of emergency (...)
The State Commissioner's Authority upheld the Administrative Court's ruling rejecting the sale of the Egyptian Company for Mobile Services, Mobinil, to France Telecom at LE245 per share.
In its report, which was presented to the court Saturday, the (...)
Security authorities confiscated on Tuesday night a novel by a Nubian author Idris Ali that tackles social conditions in Libya in the late 1970s and arrested El-Demeiry Ahmed, the novel's publisher. Security services believe that the novel, called (...)
For the first time ever, Nubian human rights activists will travel to Switzerland this month to present the Geneva-based International Human Rights Council (IHRC) with a longstanding Nubian request for the return of Nubian land confiscated by the (...)
For a long time Egypt has defended Arab issues and the Palestinian cause, said President Hosni Mubarak yesterday in an interview with Al-Shurta (The Police) magazine. The president went on to lament what he perceives as the ungratefulness of other (...)
About 100 maazouns (Islamic clerks mandated to document marriage contracts) staged a protest before parliament, objecting to what they called "procrastination" by the Justice Ministry in implementing a plan to establish a "higher council" for (...)
Egyptian legal experts and politicians criticized the decision by the Westminster Court to withdraw the arrest warrant it issued Monday against former Israeli Prime Minister Tzipi Livni. The London court had charged the Israeli leader with war (...)