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#Egypt bans secular #April_6 protest movement
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An Egyptian court on Monday banned the left-wing April 6 Youth Movement that spearheaded the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak and has protested against the current military-installed regime, a judicial official said. The court was ruling on a private lawsuit brought by a lawyer accusing the April 6 movement of “damaging the image of the state” and illegal contact with foreigners, judicial sources said. read more

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#Egypt jails four men for #homosexuality
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A court in Egypt sentenced four men to up to eight years in prison on Monday for practicing homosexuality, a judicial official said. Prosecutors had accused the men of holding “deviant parties” and dressing in women’s clothes. Three were sentenced to eight years and the fourth to three years in prison. Prosecutors have used a law banning “debauchery” to try homosexuals in the past. Those accused of homosexuality are often forced to undergo medical tests to establish they are “habitual” gays, a practice slammed by rights groups. (AFP)

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Egypt doctor faces trial over fatal female genital mutilation - Ahram Online

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A doctor in Egypt will face trial for performing a female circumcision operation that killed a teenage girl, a judicial official said on Tuesday.
The 14-year-old girl’s father who took her to the doctor for the procedure will also face trial, the official said.

#Egypt doctor, father face charges over #genital_mutilation death of 14-year-old girl
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A doctor in Egypt will face trial for performing a female #circumcision operation that killed a teenage girl, a judicial official said on Tuesday. The 14-year-old girl’s father who took her to the doctor for the procedure will also face trial, the official said. Although banned in 2008, female genital mutilation is still rampant in Egypt, especially in rural areas where many believe it is part of their faith. The doctor in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura performed the dangerous procedure at a private clinic. read more

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#Lebanon to return body of Saudi jihadist who died in custody
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A Lebanese judicial official on Friday ordered the body of a Saudi suspected of leading an al-Qaeda-linked group handed to the Saudi embassy, a week after his death in custody. “The body of Majed al-Majed will be handed to the embassy of #Saudi_Arabia, and will then be repatriated,” prosecutor Samir Hammoud, who ordered the handover, told AFP. Majed was the suspected head of the #Abdullah_Azzam_Brigades, which claimed responsibility for a November attack on the Iranian embassy in Beirut that killed 25 people. He died last week, days after his detention by the Lebanese military. read more

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#Jordan charges 15 with “terrorist acts” for university clashes
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Jordanian military prosecutors on Wednesday charged 15 men, including students, with carrying out “terrorist acts” over clashes on a university campus that injured four people, a judicial official said. “State security court prosecutors accused the suspects of carrying out terrorist acts and possessing automatic weapons with intent to use them illicitly,” the official told AFP. “They took part on Tuesday in a brawl in the al-Balqaa Applied University,” he added in reference to the campus in (...)

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Jordanian MP arrested over parliament shooting
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A Jordanian MP was arrested on Monday for his alleged role in a September fight in parliament, where another lawmaker fired a Kalashnikov assault rifle at a third colleague, an official said. “Yahia al-Saud was detained today after prosecutors charged him with inciting murder, defamation and slander,” the judicial official told AFP. “He was remanded in custody for 14 days pending further investigation,” he added. On September 10, MP Talal al-Sharif shot a Kalashnikov at his colleague Qusay (...)

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#Iran hangs Pakistani »rebels« after deadly border clashes
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The Iranian authorities on Saturday hanged 16 “rebels” following overnight clashes in which 14 border guards were killed on the frontier with #pakistan, a judicial official said. “Sixteen rebels linked to groups hostile to the regime were hanged this morning in the prison of Zahedan in response to the death of border guards in Saravan,” Mohammed Marzieh, the attorney general of Sistan-Baluchestan province, was quoted as saying by Fars news agency. "We warned the rebel groups that any attack (...)

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#Jordan jails journalists for posting video that offends Qatari royals
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Two Jordanian journalists were arrested on Wednesday after posting on their news website a video deemed offensive to the brother of #Qatar's emir. Jafra news publisher Nidal Faraaneh and editor Amjad Maalla “are accused of posting a video that offends Sheikh Jasim bin Hamad al-Thani,” a judicial official told AFP. Sheikh Jasim is the brother of Qatar’s emir Sheikh Tamim. "They were charged with carrying out acts that the government does not approve and that would expose Jordan and its (...)

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