Tuesday, November 27, 2012

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Egypt crisis: Mass rally held against Mohammed Mursi

27 November 2012 Last updated at 18:32 GMT

The BBC's Bethany Bell reports as thousands of people gather in Tahrir Square, Cairo

Tens of thousands of people have held protests in Cairo against Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi, who last week granted himself sweeping new powers.

Flag-waving demonstrators chanted slogans accusing the president and the Muslim Brotherhood of betraying last year's revolution.

On Monday Mr Mursi sought to defuse the crisis by saying the decree granting him new powers was limited in scope.

However, his opponents want him to withdraw the measure completely.

Ahead of Tuesday's rally, opposition activists clashed with police protecting the nearby US embassy. A protester, who was in his fifties, died of a heart attack after inhaling tear gas.

Activists later converged on Tahrir Square - the main focus of the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak - for one of the largest demonstrations to date against Mr Mursi.

Lawyer a Cairo protest, 27 November Many lawyers joined the protest

"The people want to bring down the regime," marchers chanted, echoing slogans used in last year's protests.

"We don't want a dictatorship again. The Mubarak regime was a dictatorship. We had a revolution to have justice and freedom," protester Ahmed Husseini was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.

Journalists, lawyers and opposition figures - including Nobel Peace prize laureate Mohammed ElBaradei, joined Tuesday's rally,

"The main demand is to withdraw the constitutional declaration," said Amr Moussa, a former Arab League chief who has joined the opposition.

Protests were also held in Alexandria and other cities.

'Sovereign' matters

The president's decree - known as the constitutional declaration - said no authority could revoke his decisions.

Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi in Cairo (23 Nov 2012) President Mursi says he wants to find common ground

There is a bar on judges dissolving the assembly drawing up a new constitution. The president is also authorised to take any measures to preserve the revolution, national unity or safeguard national security.

Critics say the decree, issued last Thursday, is an attack on the judiciary. It has sparked violent protests across the country.

On Monday Mr Mursi told senior judges that the scope of the measure would be restricted to "sovereign matters", designed to protect institutions.

The Muslim Brotherhood, which supports President Mursi, said it was postponing its own demonstration, originally due on Tuesday, to avoid "public tension".

The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo says the postponement is another sign that the government wants to defuse confrontation, but it remains to be seen whether it ends the days of angry and sometimes violent protests.

Egypt's union of judges, known as the Judges Club, rejected the president's statement, calling it "worthless" and said they would continue to suspend work in courts.

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Egypt's Mursi faces judicial revolt over decree

By Tom Perry

CAIRO | Sat Nov 24, 2012 12:39pm EST

(Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi faces a rebellion from judges who accused him on Saturday of expanding his powers at their expense, deepening a crisis that has triggered calls for more protests following a day of violence across Egypt.

Judges in Alexandria, Egypt's second city, threatened to go on strike until it was revoked, and there were calls for the "downfall of the regime" - the rallying cry in the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak - during a meeting of judges in Cairo.

Mursi's opponents and supports - representing the divide between newly empowered Islamists and a more secular-minded opposition - have called rival demonstrations on Tuesday over his decree that has triggered concern in the West.

Issued late on Thursday, it marks an effort by Mursi to consolidate his influence after he successfully sidelined Mubarak-era generals in August. It defends from judicial review decisions taken by Mursi until a new parliament is elected in a vote expected early next year.

It also shields the Islamist-dominated assembly writing Egypt's new constitution from a raft of legal challenges that have threatened the body with dissolution, and offers the same protection to the Islamist-controlled upper house of parliament.

Egypt's highest judicial authority, the Supreme Judicial Council, said the decree was an "unprecedented attack" on the independence of the judiciary.

Youths clashed sporadically with police near Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the uprising that toppled Mubarak in 2011, following Friday's violence in which more than 300 people were injured across Egypt. Activists camped out for a second day in the square, setting up makeshift barricades to keep out traffic.

POLARISATION

Liberal, leftist and socialist parties called a big protest for Tuesday to force Mursi to row back on a decree they say has exposed the autocratic impulses of a man once jailed by Mubarak.

In a sign of the polarization in the country, the Muslim Brotherhood - the group that propelled Mursi to power - called its own protests that day to support the president's decree.

At least three Brotherhood offices were attacked on Friday.

"We are facing a historic moment in which we either complete our revolution or we abandon it to become prey for a group that has put its narrow party interests above the national interest," the liberal Dustour Party said in a statement.

Mursi also assigned himself new authority to sack the prosecutor general - a Mubarak hold over - and appoint a new one. The dismissed prosecutor general, Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, was given a hero's welcome by several thousand judges who attended the session of Egypt's Judges' Club in Cairo on Saturday.

Ahmed al-Zind, head of the Judges' Club, introduced Mahmoud by his old title, in open defiance of Mursi's decree.

The Mursi administration has defended the decree on the grounds that it aims to speed up a protracted transition from Mubarak's rule to a new system of democratic government.

Analysts say it reflects the Brotherhood's suspicion towards sections of a judiciary unreformed from Mubarak's days.

"It aims to sideline Mursi's enemies in the judiciary and ultimately to impose and head off any legal challenges to the constitution," said Elijah Zarwan, a fellow with The European Council on Foreign Relations.

"We are in a situation now where both sides are escalating and its getting harder and harder to see how either side can gracefully climb down."

RIOT POLICE

Following a day of violence in Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said and Suez, the smell of teargas hung over Tahrir Square.

A handful of hardcore activists hurling rocks battled riot police in the streets near the square, where several thousand protesters massed on Friday to demonstrate against the decree that has rallied opposition ranks against Mursi.

Al-Masry Al-Youm, one of Egypt's most widely read dailies, hailed Friday's protest as "The November 23 Intifada", invoking the Arabic word for uprising. "The people support the president's decisions," declared Freedom and Justice, the newspaper run by the Brotherhood's political party.

The ultraorthodox Salafi Islamist groups that have been pushing for tighter application of Islamic law in the new constitution have rallied behind the decree.

The Nour Party, one such group, stated its support for the Mursi decree. Al-Gama'a al-Islamiya, which carried arms against the state in the 1990s, said it would save the revolution from what it described as remnants of the Mubarak regime.

Mursi is facing the biggest storm of criticism since he won the presidential election in June.

Samir Morkos, a Christian assistant to Mursi, had told the president he wanted to resign," said Yasser Ali, Mursi's spokesman. "The president has spoken to him today but the decision to resign is yet to be taken," Ali told Reuters.

Mursi addressed his supporters outside the presidential palace on Friday. He said opposition did not worry him, but it had to be "real and strong".

Mursi is now confronted with a domestic crisis just as his administration won international praise for mediating an end to the eight-day war between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

"The decisions and declarations announced on November 22 raise concerns for many Egyptians and for the international community," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

The European Union urged Mursi to respect the democratic process, while the United Nations expressed fears about human rights.

(Additional reporting by Omar Fahmy, Marwa Awad and Reuters TV; Editing by Alison Williams)


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وقعت اشتباكات بين أهالي شهداء ومصابي الثورة وبعض المحامين أمام دار القضاء العالي، السبت، بعدما حاول أهالي الشهداء التظاهر داخل دار القضاء العالي.
وكان العشرات من أهالي شهداء ومصابي الثورة قد نظموا وقفة احتجاجية، ظهر السبت، أمام دار القضاء العالي، للمطالبة بـ«تطهير القضاء والقصاص العادل ومحاكمة المخلوع ومحاكمة عبد المجيد محمود».
ورفع المتظاهرون لافتات مكتوبًا عليها: «الشعب يريد تطهير القضاء، وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل، والشهيد يريد محاكمة عبد المجيد».
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كان الرئيس مرسي قد أصدر إعلانًا دستوريًا جديدًا، الخميس، يتضمن إعادة محاكمة رموز النظام السابق، حسب قانون حماية الثورة، بالإضافة إلى قرارات بتعيين نائب عام جديد بدلًا من عبد المجيد محمود، النائب العام السابق، وتحصين اللجنة التأسيسية للدستور ومجلس الشورى، وتحصين الإعلانات الدستورية والقوانين والقرارات الصادرة عن رئيس الجمهورية، بحيث تكون غير قابلة للطعن عليها بأي طريق وأمام أي جهة.

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Friday, November 23, 2012

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Shirani Bandaranayake: Sri Lanka judge impeachment hearing begins

23 November 2012 Last updated at 08:34 GMT
Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake Lawmakers from the ruling party began proceedings against the chief justice

Sri Lanka's parliament has begun an impeachment hearing against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake.

Dr Bandaranayake, 54, faced an 11-member parliamentary committee which is investigating 14 charges of financial and official misconduct.

The Supreme Court chief justice denies the charges levelled against her.

Critics say this move is aimed at stifling the courts' independence after the Supreme Court blocked a recent government bill - officials deny this.

They say due process will be followed, but the state media has been running a campaign against her, saying the judge is unfit to hear cases, correspondents say.

Friday's hearing went ahead despite a non-binding court order to stay the process until legal challenges to the impeachment had been considered.

A statement released by Dr Bandaranayake earlier this month said she would continue discharging her duties impartially.

The move to impeach her was initiated by lawmakers from the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance.

The Judicial Services Association (JSA) of Sri Lanka has defended the chief justice, praising her for "standing firm against any type of interference and influence".


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New legislation aims to prosecute those responsible for 'revolutionary crimes' and other offenses against Egyptian 'revolutionaries'.
Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Yasser Ali announced new legislation dubbed the 'Revolution Protection Law' aimed at trying those responsible for "revolutionary crimes" and other crimes against "revolutionaries." The new law stipulates the creation of a 'Revolution Protection' prosecution to investigate any new evidence brought against the accused, who will be retried even if previously acquitted by other courts.
Crimes included in the law include injuring and killing revolutionaries, hiding incriminating information against the latter, and political corruption in the case of former regime members.
The prosecutor-general may order – according to the law – the detention of anyone charged with these crimes for a period not exceeding six months.
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President Morsi issues new constitutional declaration appointing new prosecutor-general; immunizing Constituent Assembly and Shura Council from threat of dissolution; and calling for retrial of ex-regime figures.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi issued a constitutional declaration on Thursday calling for the retrial of those accused of killing and injuring protesters during and after last year's Tahrir Square uprising.
The retrials will also target ex-regime officials who have carried out "terrorism" against Egyptian protesters.
An article in the declaration also gives immunity to Egypt's controversy-prone Constituent Assembly – tasked with drafting a new constitution – from a potential court verdict that may have otherwise led to its dissolution.
Another article protects the current Shura Council – the upper, consultative house of Egypt's parliament – from dissolution, effectively pre-empting appeals against the council's constitutionality.
The declaration also gives the president the power to appoint Egypt's prosecutor-general for a four-year period.
The new declaration included the appointment of Judge Talaat Ibrahim Mohamed Abdullah, a former deputy head of Egypt's Court of Cassation, to the post of prosecutor-general.
The decree also called for giving pensions to the families of the "martyrs of the 25 January Revolution" and increasing reparations to those injured.
The surprise decision came amid ongoing clashes between protesters and police on Cairo's Mohamed Mahmoud Street.
Protests held to commemorate four days of street fighting between protesters and security forces in November of last year turned violent on Monday.
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تاجيل دعوي وقف انتخابات الرئاسة وبطلانها الي جلسة ١٨ اكتوبر

قررت هيئة المفوضين للدائرة الأولى بمحكمة القضاء الإدارى تأجيل الدعوى المقامة من محمود أبوالليل المرشح لانتخابات رئاسة الجمهورية ضد المستشار فاروق سلطان رئيس اللجنة العليا لانتخابات الرئاسة بصفته والتى طالب فيها بوقف انتخابات الرئاسة وبطلانها وإعادة الدعوة لها مرة أخرى بسبب قيام موظفى الشهر العقارى والسجل المدنى بالأقصر بتزوير التوكيلات لصالح المرشحين لجلسة 18 أكتوبر المقبل.
وطالب أبوالليل أيضًا بعدم قبول أى أوراق لأى مرشح للرئاسة قام أعضاء مجلس الشعب والشورى بالتوقيع لهم لحين صدور حكم من الدستورية العليا فى الطعن المقدم لها بخصوص المادة الخامسة من الإعلان الدستورى التى تم إستفتاء الشعب عليها على أن يكون ثلثين الأعضاء من القوائم والثلث الأخر من الفردى مع عدم السماح لأي حزب بالنزول على المقاعد الفردية.

وأضاف أبوالليل أنه عندما تم شطب المادة الخامسة من الإعلان الدستورى بدون الرجوع إلى الشعب وهذه المادة المطعون عليها بالبطلان سوف تبطل أنتخابات مجلس الشعب والشورى الذى تم بالمخالفة للأحكام والمبادئ الدستورية المستقرة وبالتالي سوف تبطل عضوية أعضاء مجلس الشعب والشورى للذين تم انتخابهم بناءً على هذه المادة .

وكشفت الدعوى التى تنظرها هيئة مفوضى الدولة أن بعض المرشحين استغلوا الأزمة المالية التى يمر بها المواطنون حاليًا من الفقراء لدرجة أن اللذين لايجيدون القراءة والكتابة قد تم استغلالهم وبهم نسبة كبيرة من النساء ورجال منطقة أبوالحود والحبيل والبياضية والغرب من عمال اليومية والمحتاجين وكان سعر التوكيل مابين 25 جنيه إلى 150 جنيه وقد أصدر النائب العام قرارًا بتحويل كل من قام بالتزوير إلى محكمة الجنايات وهو ما يثبت جريمة التزوير فى الأوراق الرسمية المعدة للتوكيلات لمرشحى رئاسة الجمهورية.

وقال أبوالليل أنه تقدم بسحب استمارة للترشيح فى انتخابات الرئاسة يوم 10 مارس 2012 وكنت أقوم بزيارات إلى محافظات مصر وعند رجوعى إلى محافظة الأقصر التى هى مسقط رأسى فؤجئت بعملية تزوير فاضحة فى توكيلات الأقصر للمرشحين للرئاسة وتم القبض على الموظفين اللذين قاموا بعملية التزوير فى القضية رقم 3174 جنايات الأقصر.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

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Monday, November 12, 2012

اعتداء رئيس مباحث المركز المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” على محامية بالضرب


اعتصم نحو ٢٠٠ محام أمام مركز شرطة طوخ بمحافظة القليوبية مساء الخميس ،إلى منتصف الليل, احتجاجًا على اعتداء رئيس مباحث المركز المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” على محامية بالضرب داخل المركز، بعد مشادة كلامية بينهما، وحاولت المحامية الدفاع عن نفسها ورد الاعتداء، إلا أن المتواجدين حالوا دون ذلك.

وحضر نقيب المحامين بالقليوبية ” محمود على يوسف ” واعضاء النقابة الفرعية وبعض القيادات الأمنية واجتمعوا داخل المركز للوصول إلى حل لتهدئة المحامين، الذين رددوا هتافات بإلزام رئيس المباحث بالاعتذار للمحامية وجموع المحامين ونقله من المركز.

ترجع وقائع القضية عندما اتهمت ” مروة بركات ” محامية 28 سنة ومقيمة بطنط الجزيرة, المقدم عماد حمدى , رئيس مباحث مركز طوخ بالاعتداء عليها وضربها أمام القسم, أثناء رفضه تحرير محضر لها ضد ضابط مباحث تموين قام بالاعتداء على أسرتها المالكة لبنزينة بطنط الجزيرة , وحصلت مشادة كلامية بينهما انتهت بتعدى المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” عليها وضربها فى صدرها .

وتقدم مجلس نقابة المحامين بالقليوبية وأعضاء النقابة ببلاغ إلى النيابة العامة بطوخ حول واقعة الاعتداء. وأكد المحامون أنهم فى اعتصام مفتوح لحين الانتهاء من التحقيق وتوقيع الجزاء الذى يرضيهم على رئيس المباحث، وكذلك تقديم اعتذار رسمى من مديرية الأمن .

والجدير بالذكر ان الاتهام الموجه الى اسرة الاستاذة مروة بركات والذى كان سبب تواجد الزميلة فى مركز شرطة طوخ قام السيد وكيل النائب العام ويدعى “هاشم بك ” باخلاء سبيل والدة الزميلة بضمان مالى وقدرة عشرة الاف جنيه ، مما سبب صدمة لجموع المحامين المعتصمين اما مركز شرطة طوخ ، ومن المعروف ان مثل هذا القضايا يخلى سبيل المتهم بضمان محل الاقامة

ويقول ” عبدالله مجدى نعيم “محامى ، ان هذه ليست الحالة الاولى التى يتم فيها التعدى على المحامين ، فمنذ قرابة عام كان هناك تعدى مماثل من الرائد ” محمد سعيد عرفات ” واعتصم جموع من المحامين ، وترتب على ذلك نقله وتوقيع الجزاء عليه على فعله ، وانه لابد لجهاز الشرطة اتباع التعليمات بشأن المعاملة مع السادة المحامين وذلك طبقاً للكتاب الدورى المنشود بعد واقعة مدنية نصر

.كان اللواء أحمد سالم جاد مدير أمن القليوبية , قد تلقى إخطارا من مأمور مركز طوخ يفيد بتجمهر محامى طوخ أمام المركز مطالبين بمحاسبة المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” رئيس مبحث المركز, ونقله من المركز بسبب تعديه على محامية.

انتقل على الفور اللواء محمد القصيرى , مدير المباحث الجنائية بالمحافظة, واللواء مليجى فتوح, مساعد مدير الأمن, واللواء عاطف المرصفاوى, مدير تأمين إدارة الطرق والمنافذ, والعميد أسامة عايش, رئيس المباحث, إلى محل الواقعة, وقاموا بإقناع المحامين بفض الاعتصام , وقرر اللواء مليجى فتوح مساعد مدير أمن القليوبية, إحالة المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” رئيس مباحث مركز طوخ للتحقيق , كما وعد جموع المحاميين بنقله من المركز بعد التحقيق معه ويذكر انه كان هناك استدعاء للزميلة مروة بركات من اجل التحقيق معها أمس الجمعة.

اعتداء رئيس مباحث المركز المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” على محامية بالضرب


اعتصم نحو ٢٠٠ محام أمام مركز شرطة طوخ بمحافظة القليوبية مساء الخميس ،إلى منتصف الليل, احتجاجًا على اعتداء رئيس مباحث المركز المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” على محامية بالضرب داخل المركز، بعد مشادة كلامية بينهما، وحاولت المحامية الدفاع عن نفسها ورد الاعتداء، إلا أن المتواجدين حالوا دون ذلك.

وحضر نقيب المحامين بالقليوبية ” محمود على يوسف ” واعضاء النقابة الفرعية وبعض القيادات الأمنية واجتمعوا داخل المركز للوصول إلى حل لتهدئة المحامين، الذين رددوا هتافات بإلزام رئيس المباحث بالاعتذار للمحامية وجموع المحامين ونقله من المركز.

ترجع وقائع القضية عندما اتهمت ” مروة بركات ” محامية 28 سنة ومقيمة بطنط الجزيرة, المقدم عماد حمدى , رئيس مباحث مركز طوخ بالاعتداء عليها وضربها أمام القسم, أثناء رفضه تحرير محضر لها ضد ضابط مباحث تموين قام بالاعتداء على أسرتها المالكة لبنزينة بطنط الجزيرة , وحصلت مشادة كلامية بينهما انتهت بتعدى المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” عليها وضربها فى صدرها .

وتقدم مجلس نقابة المحامين بالقليوبية وأعضاء النقابة ببلاغ إلى النيابة العامة بطوخ حول واقعة الاعتداء. وأكد المحامون أنهم فى اعتصام مفتوح لحين الانتهاء من التحقيق وتوقيع الجزاء الذى يرضيهم على رئيس المباحث، وكذلك تقديم اعتذار رسمى من مديرية الأمن .

والجدير بالذكر ان الاتهام الموجه الى اسرة الاستاذة مروة بركات والذى كان سبب تواجد الزميلة فى مركز شرطة طوخ قام السيد وكيل النائب العام ويدعى “هاشم بك ” باخلاء سبيل والدة الزميلة بضمان مالى وقدرة عشرة الاف جنيه ، مما سبب صدمة لجموع المحامين المعتصمين اما مركز شرطة طوخ ، ومن المعروف ان مثل هذا القضايا يخلى سبيل المتهم بضمان محل الاقامة

ويقول ” عبدالله مجدى نعيم “محامى ، ان هذه ليست الحالة الاولى التى يتم فيها التعدى على المحامين ، فمنذ قرابة عام كان هناك تعدى مماثل من الرائد ” محمد سعيد عرفات ” واعتصم جموع من المحامين ، وترتب على ذلك نقله وتوقيع الجزاء عليه على فعله ، وانه لابد لجهاز الشرطة اتباع التعليمات بشأن المعاملة مع السادة المحامين وذلك طبقاً للكتاب الدورى المنشود بعد واقعة مدنية نصر

.كان اللواء أحمد سالم جاد مدير أمن القليوبية , قد تلقى إخطارا من مأمور مركز طوخ يفيد بتجمهر محامى طوخ أمام المركز مطالبين بمحاسبة المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” رئيس مبحث المركز, ونقله من المركز بسبب تعديه على محامية.

انتقل على الفور اللواء محمد القصيرى , مدير المباحث الجنائية بالمحافظة, واللواء مليجى فتوح, مساعد مدير الأمن, واللواء عاطف المرصفاوى, مدير تأمين إدارة الطرق والمنافذ, والعميد أسامة عايش, رئيس المباحث, إلى محل الواقعة, وقاموا بإقناع المحامين بفض الاعتصام , وقرر اللواء مليجى فتوح مساعد مدير أمن القليوبية, إحالة المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” رئيس مباحث مركز طوخ للتحقيق , كما وعد جموع المحاميين بنقله من المركز بعد التحقيق معه ويذكر انه كان هناك استدعاء للزميلة مروة بركات من اجل التحقيق معها أمس الجمعة.

اعتداء رئيس مباحث المركز المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” على محامية بالضرب


اعتصم نحو ٢٠٠ محام أمام مركز شرطة طوخ بمحافظة القليوبية مساء الخميس ،إلى منتصف الليل, احتجاجًا على اعتداء رئيس مباحث المركز المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” على محامية بالضرب داخل المركز، بعد مشادة كلامية بينهما، وحاولت المحامية الدفاع عن نفسها ورد الاعتداء، إلا أن المتواجدين حالوا دون ذلك.

وحضر نقيب المحامين بالقليوبية ” محمود على يوسف ” واعضاء النقابة الفرعية وبعض القيادات الأمنية واجتمعوا داخل المركز للوصول إلى حل لتهدئة المحامين، الذين رددوا هتافات بإلزام رئيس المباحث بالاعتذار للمحامية وجموع المحامين ونقله من المركز.

ترجع وقائع القضية عندما اتهمت ” مروة بركات ” محامية 28 سنة ومقيمة بطنط الجزيرة, المقدم عماد حمدى , رئيس مباحث مركز طوخ بالاعتداء عليها وضربها أمام القسم, أثناء رفضه تحرير محضر لها ضد ضابط مباحث تموين قام بالاعتداء على أسرتها المالكة لبنزينة بطنط الجزيرة , وحصلت مشادة كلامية بينهما انتهت بتعدى المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” عليها وضربها فى صدرها .

وتقدم مجلس نقابة المحامين بالقليوبية وأعضاء النقابة ببلاغ إلى النيابة العامة بطوخ حول واقعة الاعتداء. وأكد المحامون أنهم فى اعتصام مفتوح لحين الانتهاء من التحقيق وتوقيع الجزاء الذى يرضيهم على رئيس المباحث، وكذلك تقديم اعتذار رسمى من مديرية الأمن .

والجدير بالذكر ان الاتهام الموجه الى اسرة الاستاذة مروة بركات والذى كان سبب تواجد الزميلة فى مركز شرطة طوخ قام السيد وكيل النائب العام ويدعى “هاشم بك ” باخلاء سبيل والدة الزميلة بضمان مالى وقدرة عشرة الاف جنيه ، مما سبب صدمة لجموع المحامين المعتصمين اما مركز شرطة طوخ ، ومن المعروف ان مثل هذا القضايا يخلى سبيل المتهم بضمان محل الاقامة

ويقول ” عبدالله مجدى نعيم “محامى ، ان هذه ليست الحالة الاولى التى يتم فيها التعدى على المحامين ، فمنذ قرابة عام كان هناك تعدى مماثل من الرائد ” محمد سعيد عرفات ” واعتصم جموع من المحامين ، وترتب على ذلك نقله وتوقيع الجزاء عليه على فعله ، وانه لابد لجهاز الشرطة اتباع التعليمات بشأن المعاملة مع السادة المحامين وذلك طبقاً للكتاب الدورى المنشود بعد واقعة مدنية نصر

.كان اللواء أحمد سالم جاد مدير أمن القليوبية , قد تلقى إخطارا من مأمور مركز طوخ يفيد بتجمهر محامى طوخ أمام المركز مطالبين بمحاسبة المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” رئيس مبحث المركز, ونقله من المركز بسبب تعديه على محامية.

انتقل على الفور اللواء محمد القصيرى , مدير المباحث الجنائية بالمحافظة, واللواء مليجى فتوح, مساعد مدير الأمن, واللواء عاطف المرصفاوى, مدير تأمين إدارة الطرق والمنافذ, والعميد أسامة عايش, رئيس المباحث, إلى محل الواقعة, وقاموا بإقناع المحامين بفض الاعتصام , وقرر اللواء مليجى فتوح مساعد مدير أمن القليوبية, إحالة المقدم ” عماد حمدى ” رئيس مباحث مركز طوخ للتحقيق , كما وعد جموع المحاميين بنقله من المركز بعد التحقيق معه ويذكر انه كان هناك استدعاء للزميلة مروة بركات من اجل التحقيق معها أمس الجمعة.

BBC News - The foiled Nigerian kidnap plot


The foiled Nigerian kidnap plot

12 November 2012 Last updated at 01:49 GMT By Alex Last BBC World Service
Nigeria Airways plane The drugged ex-minister was put in a crate and taken to an airport where a plane was waiting

In London in 1984, a team of Nigerians and Israelis attempted to kidnap and repatriate the exiled former Nigerian minister Umaru Dikko. Mr Dikko, who had fled Nigeria after a military coup, was accused of stealing $1bn (£625m) of government money.

The plot was foiled by a young British customs officer, Charles David Morrow, who has now told the BBC World Service Witness programme what happened.

On a summer's day, Mr Dikko walked out of his front door in an upmarket neighbourhood of Bayswater in London. Within seconds he had been grabbed by two men and bundled into the back of a transit van.

"I remember the very violent way in which I was grabbed and hurled into a van, with a huge fellow sitting on my head - and the way in which they immediately put on me handcuffs and chains on my legs," he told the BBC a year later.

Mr Dikko had been minister for transport in the government of Shehu Shagari until it was overthrown by the military at the end of 1983. He fled to London accused by Nigeria's new rulers of embezzlement - a charge he has always denied.

Labelled "Nigeria's most wanted man" a plot was hatched to get both him and the money back.

The extraordinary plan was to kidnap Mr Dikko, drug him, stick him into a specially made crate and put him on a plane back to Nigeria - alive.

Israeli anaesthetist

An Israeli alleged former Mossad agent, Alexander Barak, was recruited to lead the kidnap team. It included a Nigerian intelligence officer, Maj Mohammed Yusufu, and Israeli nationals Felix Abitbol and Dr Lev-Arie Shapiro, who was to inject Mr Dikko with an anaesthetic.

Umaru Dikko Umaru Dikko always denied embezzling $1bn

The kidnappers switched vehicles in a car park by London Zoo and headed towards Stansted airport where a Nigerian Airways plane was waiting. They injected Mr Dikko and laid him, unconscious, in a crate.

The Israeli anaesthetist climbed into the crate as well, carrying medical equipment to make sure Mr Dikko didn't die en route. Barak and Abitbol got into a second crate. Both boxes were then sealed.

At the cargo terminal of Stansted Airport, 40 miles (64km) north of London, a Nigerian diplomat was anxiously waiting for the crates to arrive. Also on duty that day was a young customs officer, Charles David Morrow.

Diplomatic bag

"The day had gone fairly normally until about 3pm. Then we had the handling agents come through and say that there was a cargo due to go on a Nigerian Airways 707, but the people delivering it didn't want it manifested," Mr Morrow said.

"I went downstairs to see who they were and what was happening. I met a guy who turned out to be a Nigerian diplomat called Mr Edet. He showed me his passport and he said it was diplomatic cargo. Being ignorant of such matters, I asked him what it was, and he told me it was just documents and things."

APB A missing persons bulletin alerted customs officials to the kidnapping

No-one on duty at Stansted had dealt with a diplomatic bag before and Mr Morrow went to check the procedure.

Just then a colleague returned from the passenger terminal with some startling news. There was an All Ports Bulletin from Scotland Yard saying that a Nigerian had been kidnapped and it was suspected he would be smuggled out of the country.

The police had been alerted by Mr Dikko's secretary who had witnessed his abduction from a window in the house.

Hearing the news, Mr Morrow realised he had a problem on his hands.

"I just put two and two together. The classic customs approach is not to look for the goods, you look for the space," he said.

"So I am looking out of the window and I can see the space which is these two crates, clearly big enough to get a man inside. We've got a Nigerian Airways 707, which we don't normally see. They don't want the crates manifested, so there would be no record of them having gone through. And there was very little other cargo going on board the aircraft.

"If you want to hide a tree, you hide it in the forest. You don't stick it out in the middle of Essex."

By the book

But any cargo designated as a diplomatic bag is protected by the Vienna Convention from being opened by customs officers. So Mr Morrow got on the phone to the British Foreign Office.

Charles Morrow Charles Morrow was commended for his actions

"To qualify as a 'diplomatic bag' they clearly had to be marked with the words 'Diplomatic Bag' and they had to be accompanied by an accredited courier with the appropriate documentation. It was fair to say they had a Nigerian diplomat - I'd seen his passport - but they didn't have the right paperwork and they weren't marked 'Diplomatic Bag'," he said.

The decision was taken that the crates could be opened - but it would be done by the book. That required the presence of a Nigerian diplomat, but as Mr Morrow pointed out, one was already on hand. By now, the crates were up on special trolleys ready to be loaded on to the plane.

"Peter, the cargo manager, hit the lid on the bottom and lifted it. And as he lifted it, the Nigerian diplomat, who was standing next to me, took off like a startled rabbit across the tarmac," Mr Morrow said.

"You have to remember we are on an airfield which is square miles of nothing. He ran about five yards (4.5m), realised no-one was chasing him and then stopped.

"Peter looked into the crate and said: 'There's bodies inside!'

He parked a forklift truck so its tines lay across the top of the crate so it couldn't be opened. Mr Morrow dialled the emergency number 999.

"My name's Morrow, from Customs at Stansted. We've got some bodies in a crate. Do you think you can send someone over," he recalls saying.

"They said: 'Alive or Dead?'

"I said: 'That's a very good point. I don't know.'

"They said: 'We'll send an ambulance as well.'"

After half an hour, police started to arrive, and they opened the second crate. Inside they found an unconscious Mr Dikko, and a very much awake Israeli anaesthetist. Mr Dikko was lying on his back in the corner of the crate.

"He had no shirt on, he had a heart monitor on him, and he had a tube in his throat to keep his airway open. No shoes and socks and handcuffs around his ankles. The Israeli anaesthetist was in there, clearly to keep him alive," recalls Mr Morrow.

The kidnappers in the other crate were unrepentant. They said Mr Dikko was the biggest crook in the world.

The Nigerian intelligence officer and the three Israelis all received prison sentences in the UK.

Diplomatic relations between the UK and Nigeria broke down and were only fully restored two years later. The Nigerian and Israeli governments have always denied involvement in the kidnapping.

Mr Dikko returned to Nigeria the following decade and still lives there.

Mr Morrow was commended for actions that day by the head of UK Customs, who described the incident as a "very tricky situation".

Alex Last's report was broadcast on the BBC World Service's Witness programme. You can download a podcast of the programme or browse the archive.


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Egypt 'baby trafficking ring' broken up in Cairo

11 November 2012 Last updated at 17:30 GMT

A child-trafficking ring that sold 300 babies over three years has been broken up in Cairo, Egyptian police say.

Two nurses and a doctor at a Cairo hospital are among five people arrested and police say they are still searching for the hospital manager.

The babies were reportedly sold to childless couples after Caesarean sections were performed on women carrying unwanted children.

Babies were said to have been sold for up to 3,500 Egyptian pounds($570;£360).

According to Egyptian media reports, women who had come forward too late for an abortion were offered a Caesarean section and their babies were then sold on, apparently at a profit.

Abortions are lawful in Egypt if the mother's health is at risk.

Only a limited form of adoption is allowed, to the extent that children cannot take the name of their adoptive families.

Trade in such a black market in babies would have enabled couples to avoid Egypt's legal restrictions, the BBC's Kevin Connolly in Cairo reports.

Although the details of the case provided by police are sketchy, it appears they have disrupted an extensive child-trafficking ring, our correspondent says.


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Greece MPs approve new austerity budget amid protests

12 November 2012 Last updated at 05:14 GMT

The budget was passed by 167 votes to 128

Greek lawmakers have approved the 2013 budget involving fresh spending cuts, despite mass public street protests.

The budget was passed by 167 votes to 128. The move was a pre-condition for Athens to be granted a 31.5bn euro (£25bn; $40bn) EU/IMF loan necessary to stave off bankruptcy.

In Athens, more than 10,000 people protested outside the parliament.

The vote comes as eurozone finance ministers are due to discuss the Greece crisis at a meeting in Brussels.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who is due to attend the summit, earlier warned that without the new loan, Athens would start running out of money within days.

The problem that he faces is that it could take some weeks before the EU backs the new instalment, BBC Athens correspondent Mark Lowen reports. The measure will have to be approved first by some parliaments, including Germany's.

Political symbol

The new Greek budget foresees a deepening of the worst recession of any country in modern history, our correspondent says.

The national economy is expected to shrink next year by 4.5% and public debt is likely to rise to 189% of GDP, almost double Greece's national output. This year, public debt stood at 175%.

The head of Syriza, a left-wing opposition party, said the latest budget cuts would leave Greeks unable to afford essential goods this winter.

"This is why we say you are dangerous for this country," Alexis Tspiras said, telling the government: "You are incapable of negotiating."

Protesters confront riot police in Athens. Photo: 11 November 2012 Sunday's demonstration in Athens passed largely peaceful

As MPs inside parliament debated the budget late on Sunday, marchers outside brought the centre of the capital to a standstill.

Members of the Communist-affiliated Pame union, the private sector GSEE union and the public sector Adedy union had urged parliament to reject the budget.

But there was none of the violence seen last Wednesday when protesters attacked riot police with petrol bomb and the police responded by firing tear gas.

Evangelos Venizelos, whose socialist Pasok party is part of the governing coalition, warned European partners that any delay in pushing through the loan worked against Greece and the eurozone as a whole.

"The country is at its limits," he said.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said nobody opposed the next slice of loan funding, but the Greek government should have met the conditions for it months ago.

Former Greek MP, Elena Panaritis: "This just hurts the same people over and over again"

"We are not responsible for the urgency. All those concerned have known the deadlines for a long time," Mr Schaeuble said in an interview with Die Welt newspaper.

The next tranche of bailout loans for Greece has been delayed for months, becoming as much a political symbol as a financial one, the BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels reports.

Eurozone governments have not decided how they will pay for it, our correspondent says. So there are still plenty of questions surrounding Greece and the whole strategy of austerity-based reform.

A final report is still awaited from the main lenders - the European Comission, the IMF and the European Central Bank - on the progress of reforms Athens has signed up as part of the bailout deal.


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Apple and HTC settle patent disputes

11 November 2012 Last updated at 11:01 GMT
HTC HTC recently launched new phones that run on Windows software

Apple and Taiwanese phonemaker HTC have settled all their outstanding disputes over patents, ending a fight that began in March 2010.

The two firms also signed a 10-year licence agreement that will extend to current and future patents held by one another.

HTC competes with Apple, Samsung and others in phones and tablets.

Apple has been embroiled in a series of "patent wars" with phone makers and with arch-rival Google.

Unlike its rivals, HTC's sales have been in decline since the second half of 2011, despite having become a major global phone company by aligning itself to Google's Android platform.

The firm has upgraded its HTC One flagship phone and introduced two new models running Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 software.

"HTC is pleased to have resolved its dispute with Apple, so HTC can focus on innovation instead of litigation," said Peter Chou, the head of HTC.

The firm said recently it expects sales will be lower than had been expected at the end of the year as the Taiwanese smartphone maker has been finding it hard to emulate the success of its rivals.

HTC and Apple were fighting more than 20 cases in the world, according to the AFP news agency.

Apple won an order almost a year ago from the US International Trade Commission, which issued a "limited exclusion order" directing that HTC stop bringing offending smartphones into the US from April.

And in May, the US mobile carrier Sprint had to delay the introduction of a smartphone using Google's Android operating system after the devices were blocked by US customs due to an Apple complaint.

Ongoing cases

Apple and its rivals have been suing and countersuing for the past several years, accusing each other of copying designs and ideas in the lucrative smartphone space.

Apple and Samsung, for example, have filed legal cases against each other in more than 10 countries, each accusing the other of violating its patents.

A California court earlier this year awarded Apple $1.05bn (£652m) in damages against Samsung, after ruling several of its software and design technologies had been infringed, but the Korean firm is calling for a retrial.

And last week, a US judge dismissed Apple's case in which it alleged that Google's Motorola unit was seeking excessive royalty payments for patents.


Sunday, November 11, 2012

Egyptian Corporate Lawyer: BBC News - US anti-Islam filmmaker Nakoula Bassele...

Egyptian Corporate Lawyer: BBC News - US anti-Islam filmmaker Nakoula Bassele...: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20247187 US anti-Islam filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula jailed ...

BBC News - US anti-Islam filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula jailed


US anti-Islam filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula jailed

7 November 2012 Last updated at 23:25 GMT
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula escorted from his home. September 2012 Nakoula was arrested after going into hiding amid death threats over the film

A US man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to mass protests in the Middle East has been sentenced to a year in jail for probation violations.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was sentenced by a judge in California after admitting four violations which stem from a 2010 conviction for fraud.

None of the charges was connected with the content of the controversial film, Innocence of Muslims.

Dozens of people died in the Middle East in protests over the film.

US District Judge Christina Snyder said Nakoula, 55, must spend 12 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release.

Prosecutors had been seeking a two-year sentence.

Internet ban

After the 2010 conviction, Nakoula had served most of a 21-month jail sentence for using more than a dozen aliases and opening about 60 bank accounts to conduct a cheque fraud scheme, prosecutors said.

The Los Angeles Times said that it was while he was in prison that he read the Koran, looking for ways to criticise Islam.

On his release he was barred from using computers or the internet for five years without approval from his probation officer.

Nakoula, who was arrested in September, also goes by the name of Sam Bacile, Nicola Bacily and Mark Basseley Yousseff and is believed to be an Egyptian-American Coptic Christian.

US authorities have said they believe Nakoula was the person behind the controversial film, but have not said whether he was the person who posted it on the internet.

Muslims around the world took to the streets in protest, outraged by the film's portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad.


Saturday, November 10, 2012

Egyptian Corporate Lawyer: BBC News - Chevron appeals against asset freeze in...

Egyptian Corporate Lawyer: BBC News - Chevron appeals against asset freeze in...: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20276105 Chevron appeals against asset freeze in Argentina ...

BBC News - Chevron appeals against asset freeze in Argentina


Chevron appeals against asset freeze in Argentina

10 November 2012 Last updated at 00:55 GMT
File photo of an activists showing contaminated soil in the Lago Agrio region on 20 February 2011 The appeal is the latest development in a decades-long legal battle over oil pollution

Two Argentine subsidiaries of the oil company Chevron have appealed against a court order freezing up to $19bn (£11.9bn) of their assets.

A judge issued the order as part of an environmental damages claim in Ecuador.

Chevron has been ordered to pay $19bn for polluting land in the Amazon region but because it has few assets in Ecuador the plaintiffs are trying to get the ruling enforced abroad.

Chevron said the subsidiaries had nothing to do with the judgement.

Legal quagmire

"Chevron Corp, the sole judgement debtor, has no assets in Argentina," Chevron spokesman Kent Robertson said.

"All operations in Argentina are conducted by subsidiaries that have nothing to do with the fraudulent judgement in Ecuador," according to Mr Robertson.

Wednesday's court order freezing Chevron's assets in Argentina is the latest move in a decades-long legal wrangle between Chevron and the people of the Lago Agrio region of Ecuador.

The Ecuadorean court judgement originally ordered Chevron to pay $8.6bn in environmental damages, but that was more than doubled because the oil company did not apologise publicly.

The Ecuadorean plaintiffs say that Texaco, which merged with Chevron in 2001, dumped toxic materials in the Ecuadorean Amazon between 1964 and 1992.

Chevron says Texaco spent $40m cleaning up the area during the 1990s, and signed an agreement with Ecuador in 1998 absolving it of any further responsibility.

Chevron has in the past said the original ruling against the company was a product of "bribery and fraud".

The company has also dismissed the plaintiffs' moves to get the ruling enforced abroad, saying that "if the plaintiffs' lawyers believed they had a legitimate judgement, they would seek to enforce it in the United States".


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