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Un profesor de Georgetown, compañero de Mursi en el cadalso

June 17, 2015

‘Al Sisi nos usa para intimidar a la población y poner a prueba los límites de Occidente’ ‘Al Sisi está radicalizando Egipto. Los políticos españoles deberían entenderlo’ “Si se siente bajo presión, el régimen podría ejecutar a algunos líderes de…

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Ein zum Tode Verurteilter klagt an!

June 13, 2015

VON CLAUDIA HAJ ALI Washington – Emad Shahin hat eine große Liebe. Gut möglich, dass er sie nie wieder sehen wird – seine Heimat Ägypten. Der international angesehene Professor für Politik ist am 3. Januar 2014 aus Kairo geflohen und lebt seither…

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Q&A: Emad Shahin on Death Sentence, Egypt’s Future

June 9, 2015

JUNE 9, 2015 BY TOBY HUNG HOYA STAFF WRITER Emad Shahin, a visiting professor of political science at the School of Foreign Service, was sentenced to death in absentia by the Egyptian government May 16, on charges of espionage. As “Defendant 33,”…

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Egypt’s Sisi fueling discontent

May 21, 2015

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…

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Egypt Court Issues Death Penalty for Georgetown Political Science Professor

May 19, 2015

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…

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Convicted Egypt academic denounces ‘reign of terror’

May 19, 2015

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…

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The Meaning of my Death Sentence

May 19, 2015

How I became Defendant 33—yet another casualty of the return to military rule On January 3, 2014, Egyptian security forces surrounded my house in Cairo at dawn, performing military drills and making noises that shook the building. I vividly remember…

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Q&A: Egypt death sentences ‘a bargaining chip’

May 17, 2015

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…

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Prominent Egyptian Scholar Sentenced to Death in Absentia

May 17, 2015

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…

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Nature: Academic freedom under threat

July 2, 2014

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…

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