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14 weeks 13 hours ago - Damascus
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Security forces arrested blogger Razan Ghazzawi, icon of the 11-month uprising in Syria, along with rights activist Mazen Darwish and 12 others, opposition figures said.

Human rights lawyer Anwar Bunni said Ghazzawi was arrested in an early afternoon raid on the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression, which is located in central Damascus and is headed by Darwish.
"We at the Syrian Centre for Legal Studies condemn these arrests and call on Syrian authorities to immediately release them," Bunni said in a statement.
Opposition figure Louai Hussein earlier told the AFP news agency that Darwish's wife was also among those arrested.

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Tags Mazen Darwish, Raid, Razan Ghazzawi, syria, Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression
15 weeks 3 days ago - Egypt

Earlier today, the Egyptian Justice Ministry released a list of 43 individuals indicted on charges of illegally receiving foreign funding and establishing civil society organisations without license.

Their names were published in the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper in Arabic, along with their nationalities and whether the investigating judge considered them present or "fugitives". In such cases, we have written "absent".

There are 19 Americans, of whom 13 are listed as being "fugitives". All 14 Egyptians are listed as present.

International Republican Institute

Samuel LaHood (American)

Sherine Nafeet (American)

Christine Angel (Norwegian)

Dan Eric Tishk (American - absent)

Hans Chris (American - absent)

John George Toma (American)

Rida Khader al-Raya (Palestinian)

Osama Azizi (American Lebanese - absent)

Tanya Mark (American - absent)

Elizabeth Dugan (American - absent)

Ahmed Shawki Haikal (Egyptian)

Ahmed Abdel Aziz Abdel Aal (Egyptian)

Ahmed Oreib Adam (Egyptian)

Essam Borei (Egyptian)

National Democratic Institute

Julie Ann Hughes (American)

Almandin Kotovitch (Serbian)

Jodmir Milic (Serbian)

Layla Jafar (American - absent)

Robert Becker (American)

Mariana Konasevitch (Serbian)

Sitia Nilhaj (American)

Dana Zebakono (American - absent)

Ali Juda al-Haj Suleiman (Lebanese - absent)

Maroun Abdel Basir (Lebanese - absent)

Michael Jeans (American - absent)

Mohammed Ashraf Kamel (Egyptian)

Radwa Sayyid Ahmed - (Egyptian)

Hafsa Maher Halawa - (Egyptian)

Amin Mohammed Morsi - (Egyptian)

Freedom House

Charles Dan - (American - absent)

Al Sherif Ahmed Mansour (American - absent)

Amir Amin Jarrah - (Jordanian - absent)

Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Aziz - (Egyptian)

Nancy Gamel Akil - (Egyptian)

Basem Fathi Mohammed Ali - (Egyptian)

Magdi Moharrem Hassan - (Egyptian)

International Center for Journalists

Patrick Butler - (American - absent)

Natasha Tynes - (American - absent)

Megan Mitchell (American - absent)

Yehia Zakaria Ghaem - (Egyptian)

Islam Mohammed Foued - (Egyptian)

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

Andreas Jacobs - (German)

Christine Margaret - (German)

Tags americans, list, NGO, Raid
20 weeks 2 days ago - Germany

 

Germany says it is sending an envoy to Egypt to press authorities over the raid on the Cairo office of a German think tank.

The Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle was sending his envoy for change in the Arab world, Volkmar Wenzel, to Cairo. He is to talk with Egypt's foreign minister and other officials.

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation, which has links to Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, was among 10 pro-democracy organisations whose offices were raided last Thursday.

On Friday, Egypt's ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Berlin. The Foreign Ministry says Wenzel will press for quick clarification of authorities' case against the foundation. It reiterated that Westerwelle expects Egypt to "immediately" stop obstructing the foundation's work. [AP]

Tags egypt, Guido Westerwelle, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Raid
24 weeks 5 days ago - Los Angeles

The Associated Press is reporting that nearly 12 undercover Los Angeles Police Department detectives infilitrated the Occupy LA encampment in the weeks leading up to last Wednesday's eviction raid.

An un-named police source told the LA Times that the officers tried to blend in with the protesters to ascertain if there were any plans for use of weapons or resistance against police.

Tags Eviction, Occupy Protests, police, Raid

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