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Syria peace talks falter as army presses Aleppo - ARA News - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 04 Feb 16
     
    The events from my previous post have led to growing doubts pertaining to the current peace talks as the government presses for control of Aleppo.
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US, France accuse Assad of scuppering Syria peace talks - 0 views

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  • natphan on 04 Feb 16
     
    The United Nations seems to have almost given up on the notion of any semblance of peaceful resolution with the Syrian government. Additionally, Russia's bombings of the region add another element of conflict, and the notion of some sort of Russia-UN conflict becomes more and more feasible.
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Egypt overturns death sentences for 149 Islamists - Al Arabiya English - 0 views

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  • An Egyptian court has decided on Wednesday to overturn death sentences for 149 pro-Islamists, according to an official source and reported by AFP.
  • he court ordered a retrial for the defendants over the attack, which killed 13 policemen near Cairo on August 14, 2013, the day police shot dead hundreds of Islamist demonstrators in the capital.
  • he court had also sentenced 37 people to death in absentia,
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  • even people have been executed for political violence since Mohamed Mursi's ouster, including six who were convicted of belonging to an Islamist militant group.
  • Hundreds of Islamists have been sentenced to death since the military toppled Islamist president Mursi in 2013.
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      mcooka on 04 Feb 16
       
      There's this turn around of hatred towards muslims because of Mursi's short reign. Lots of backlash 
  • mcooka on 04 Feb 16
     
    While a short article, it tells of much to come in the future. Egypt overruled 149 death sentences for Islamist. These were the results of mass trails which were made in February 2015.
  • mcooka on 04 Feb 16
     
    While a short article, it tells of much to come in the future. Egypt overruled 149 death sentences for Islamist. These were the results of mass trails which were made in February 2015.
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Egypt fills its prisons, but don't worry, it'll make more - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of th... - 0 views

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  • gypt's worsening human rights abuses are not going unnoticed.
  • People are being assaulted on many fronts, from travel restrictions and false imprisonment to limits on freedom of expression, torture and killings.
  • pproved 16 new prisons in only 2½ years in response to the detention of thousands of young people. Some facilities are still under construction. The number of prisons in Egypt has risen from 42 to 52 since 2011,
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  • 10,000 detainees are under investigation or awaiting trial in detention centers and prisons, and Eid wrote in a Jan. 13 Twitter post that Egypt now houses around 60,000 political prisoners.
  • The statement condemned the arrest of journalists and a number of activists affiliated with certain social movements, primarily the April 6 Youth Movement. T
  • he movement has said it considers the regime’s attempts to crush it as "failures," further characterizing this era of Egypt’s judiciary as bleak.
  • Egyptian authorities are not content with merely preventing some citizens active in society from leaving the country. They also are barring the return of others who they allege pose a security risk
  • he was questioned for about 16 hours and her personal laptop and cellphone were searched. She was subsequently denied entry and deported back to Tunisia, an incident that rights organizations consider blatant police interference in academic liberties.
  • In October, Alexandria University canceled, for “security reasons,” a lecture by Essam Heggy, a NASA scientist and former adviser to Mansour. Heggy is known for his critical views about the Egyptian government.
  • mcooka on 04 Feb 16
     
    This is an article which criticizes all of the Prison growth in Egypt. It has risen from 40 into the 60's in the last two years. There have been huge human rights violations involving the police.
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Libyan Journalist: People In Benghazi 'Divided' Over How To Stop ISIS : NPR - 0 views

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  • amarsha5 on 04 Feb 16
     
    Libyans are in conflict over supporting US-backed airstrikes against ISIS in the city of Benghazi. Some feel that it is necessary to thwart the extremist group and others feel that it will only cause more deaths and destruction from mistaken locations
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DEA: Hezbollah drug money scheme disrupted - CNNPolitics.com - 0 views

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  • amarsha5 on 04 Feb 16
     
    The DEA caught Lebanese militant organization, Hezbollah, in an international drug operation that was helping to finance the terrorist network's operations in Syria. Hezbollah worked with South American drug cartels to smuggle the drugs via the bodies of expensive foreign sports cars being shipped internationally.
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