Sentenced To Death In Egypt: One Man’s Hope For Democracy
Egypt’s Record-Breaking Death Sentence (VIDEO) – Huffington Post
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Egypt’s Sisi fueling discontent
Trudy Rubin, Inquirer Opinion Columnist Posted: Thursday, May 21, 2015, 1:08 AM If you were looking for an Egyptian who could help his country fulfill the lost promise of the Arab Spring – some day – you couldn’t do better than Emad…
Egypt Court Issues Death Penalty for Georgetown Political Science Professor
By Farid Farid May 19, 2015 | 12:45 pm Emad Shahin would be a dead man walking if he were in Egypt. Fortunately for him, he’s in Washington, DC. Shahin was sentenced earlier this week to death in absentia by the Cairo Criminal Court…
Convicted Egypt academic denounces ‘reign of terror’
Cairo (AFP) – Egyptian authorities have unleashed a “reign of terror” against opponents of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a prominent academic who was recently sentenced to death told AFP in an interview. Emad Shahin, who fled Egypt in January 2014…
Q&A: Egypt death sentences ‘a bargaining chip’
Al Jazeera spoke with Professor Emad Shahin, one of more than 100 people recently sentenced to death in Egypt. Megan O’Toole | 18 May 2015 08:57 GMT | Human Rights, Politics, Middle East, Egypt More than 100 defendants, including former…
Prominent Egyptian Scholar Sentenced to Death in Absentia
Benjamin Plackett, Sarah Lynch / 17 May 2015 CAIRO—Prominent Egyptian scholar Emad Shahin was among more than 120 defendants, including Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi, sentenced to death Saturday in two separate espionage and jailbreak cases. The sentences were not…
Statement by Prof. Emad Shahin on his death sentence
Statement by Prof. Emad Shahin on his death sentence May 16, 2015 In another travesty of justice, an Egyptian court today issued a mass death sentence against more than 120 defendants in two cases known as the “Grand Espionage” and…
Academy of Science of South Africa Newsletter
On the occasion of the 11th biennial meeting of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies, hosted in May 2014 by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle, human rights abuses perpetrated against scientific colleagues…
Nature: Academic freedom under threat
The human rights of academics in Egypt are being eroded by the military regime that has taken control of the country. The Arab Spring is on hold. 02 July 2014 Emad Shahin, a political-sciences scholar, has been in exile…
