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ECWR was shocked when it received the decision of the State Council, Egypt’s Administrative Court, to defer the appointment of female judges, although consensus of the Special Council was reached, allowing women to be appointed to judicial positions. The State Council attributed reason for the delay in approving the appointment of female judges to regulation problems, including a lack of safe and secure places for women to stay when presiding over a trial and a lack of nurseries for their children.

أربيل/ أصوات العراق: ناشد وزير الثقافة السابق في حكومة اقليم كردستان العراق فلك الدين كاكه يى، السبت، مرشد الجمهورية الأسلامية الأيرانية آية الله العظمى السيد علي خامنئي بالغاء حكم اعدام الناشطة الكردية الايرانية زينب جلاليان واطلاق سراحها. وجاء في بيان اصدره القيادي في الحزب الديمقراطي الكردستاني كاكه يى باسمه وباسم كافة زملائه البرلمانيين والمثقفين الذين يشاركونه الرأي في حقوق الأنسان وارسل نسخة منه لوكالة (أصوات العراق) ” نناشد آية الله العظمى السيد علي خامنئي مرشد الجمهورية الأسلامية الأيرانية بالغاء حكم الاعدام الصادرة بحق الناشطة زينب جلاليان واطلاق سراحها، كما نناشد بالغاء احكام الأعدام الأخرى الصادرة بحق الناشطات والناشطين لأسباب سياسية”.

On June 6, a pair of police officers entered an Alexandria Internet cafe and began asking for the identification documents of everyone present. When 28-year-old Khaled Said objected to being searched without a warrant, the officers began to attack him, beating his head against a table and kicking him in the chest. They tied his hands behind his back and dragged him to a nearby building where they continued to smash his head, first against an iron door and then against the building's marble steps. Witnesses heard Khaled begging them to stop, screaming "I'm going to die," to which the officers responded: "You're going to die anyway." The officers dragged Said into their police car and drove him away, only to return several minutes later to leave his lifeless corpse in the street.

"I stopped counting after I had received 50 death threats. I told my secretary not to tell me about them any more," Arab-Israeli Knesset (parliament) member, Haneen Zoabi told IPS. "As a result of the death threats I’ve been given personal body guards both within the Knesset and outside," adds Zoabi. Zoabi, a member of the Arab-Israeli political party Balad, was on board the ‘Mavi Marmara’, part of the Free Gaza (FG) flotilla, when it was attacked by Israeli commandos in international waters as it tried to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza several weeks ago.