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#state_security : One man’s den of corruption
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/state-security-one-man%E2%80%99s-den-corruption-0

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A State Security officer escorts an official to the Lebanese parliament. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) A State Security officer escorts an official to the Lebanese parliament. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)

State Security is just a fancy name for what is in fact a den of incompetence and corruption. In this so-called directorate, the talents of around 2,500 officers, noncommissioned officers, and servicemen and women are squandered, as well as millions of dollars each year in taxpayer money. Is it not time to abolish, or at least rein in the corruption at the General Directorate of State Security that has not made any noteworthy achievement in years?

Radwan Mortada

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Drama at Barrak’s trial as court may summon PM

KUWAIT: The first hearing of former opposition MP Musallam Al-Barrak in the court of appeals was full of drama yesterday as the state security officer who probed the case collapsed during cross-examination and the court may summon Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah to testify in the high-profile case. Barrak, one of the opposition’s leading figures, is on trial on charges of insulting HH the Amir and undermining his authority in a speech at a public rally in October last year. Earlier this year, Barrak was sentenced to five years in jail by the criminal court. The sentence was scrapped over illegal procedures by the appeals court which decided to take over the trial itself.

▻http://news.kuwaittimes.net/drama-barraks-trial-court-may-summon-pm

Debating atheism in the heart of Cairo

Le journaliste Mohamed Abdelfattah avait live-tweeté le débat, voici son article.

In a country where individual liberty is shackled by societal norms more than it is contained by a state apparatus, being able to express contrary values in public says a lot about the level we’ve reached in Egypt today. What we are seeing is a public sphere that has been empowered like never before, gatherings that are free of the constant threat of a State Security officer arriving to shut things down. Young Egyptians own their space, and they are steadily utilizing it for their own progressive agenda.

►http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/kristin-deasy/debating-atheism-heart-cairo