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...European governments have said their airspace is off limits to CIA flights carrying prisoners to countries practicing torture. A judge in Italy last year ordered 13 CIA operatives arrested after prosectors there said the CIA seized Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, an Egyptian imam, in Milan and sent him to Egypt, where he claims he was tortured. Although President Bush has said the U.S. seeks assurances that suspects sent abroad won't be tortured, CIA Director Porter Goss has acknowledged that "there's only so much...
...Sudanese refugees ?our brothers.? After all, the neighboring countries have had cultural and historic ties for thousands of years. However, of the multitude of refugees that have fled the turmoil of Sudan, particularly the genocidal killings in the Darfur region, only 30,000 have official refugee status in Egypt. The rest are in legal limbo, hoping to be allowed to migrate to Europe or America, but stymied by local authorities and, in their eyes, the United Nations commission on refugees. On Dec. 30, as 2005 ended, tragedy struck in a very unbrotherly...
...faces the regional office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The leaders of the sit-in had one important demand: to be processed for transfer to a Western country. They refused any half-measure, especially being returned to Darfur in southern Sudan; or to be resettled in Egypt, where they say they suffer from discrimination and random arrest. The trouble was, for months, the UNHCR had declined to talk directly to the protesters in the garden. The Sudanese minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Ahmed Korti, on a visit to Cairo, urged the Sudanese to return home...
...with Mubarak?s regime. In 2000, veteran Egyptian democracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim was jailed on charges of accepting and misusing funds from foreign sources to support his research and monitoring work. Like Ibrahim, whose conviction was later overturned-after some pressuring from the U.S.-Nour was vilified in Egypt?s influential state-run media. Again, the U.S. is demanding that Nour be released. But the Egyptian government says that the arrest is in no way politically motivated...
...That seemed to be the intended message in November?s parliamentary poll. As the liberal Nour was suffering his defeat, Egypt?s Muslim Brotherhood, a party that seeks to reestablish an Islamic caliphate, was given unprecedented leeway by the regime to field its candidates. It captured nearly 20 percent of the seats, a sixfold improvement on its previous best showing, making the fundamentalists the largest opposition force in parliament. Egypt?s future has thus become a polarizing struggle between Mubarak and Islam, a contest that liberals, with Nour in jail rather than in parliament, have little hope of winning...