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Egypt
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Politics
5/5/2014 10:00:31 AM
Political rights law committee will announce date of parliamentary poll, which should take place soon after presidential election
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Egypt
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Politics
4/15/2014 11:29:25 AM
Interim President Adly Mansour forms a committee to amend political rights and parliamentary elections laws
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Egypt
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Politics
3/8/2014 5:17:50 PM
State Council find unconstitutional a draft amendment that would prevent those standing trial from running for election
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Egypt
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Politics
3/7/2014 7:18:42 PM
The amendment aims to strip citizens currently facing trial or in custody pending trial of exercising their political rights, including the right to run in presidential elections
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Egypt
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Politics
1/28/2014 8:18:50 AM
The decision to hold presidential elections first will require amending laws on presidential elections and the exercise of political rights
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World
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Region
12/15/2013 7:10:08 PM
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Egypt
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Politics
6/17/2013 7:30:15 PM
Upper house of parliament green-lights proposed amendments to political rights law, despite reservations that some changes may be ruled unconstitutional by Egypt's judiciary
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Egypt
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Politics
6/16/2013 6:52:40 PM
Amendments to law include controversial decision to grant military and police personnel voting rights in national elections
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Egypt
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Politics
6/11/2013 1:36:54 PM
Shura Council committee approves reservations of High Constitutional Court on draft political rights law
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Egypt
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Politics
6/9/2013 5:01:26 PM
Following a High Constitutional Court ruling, and while the deputy defence minister urges caution, the Shura Council agrees to open voting to the armed forces and police before 2020
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Egypt
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Politics
5/26/2013 11:04:50 PM
High Constitutional Court (HCC)'s assertion that draft political rights law shouldn't bar military, police personnel from voting draws mixed reactions from both of Egypt's political camps
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Egypt
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Politics
5/25/2013 8:28:33 PM
Amid deep political divisions and verbal clashes, Egypt's Shura Council approved referring proposed amendments to the Judicial Authority Law to the specialised parliamentary committee for approval
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Egypt
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Politics
4/2/2013 11:20:59 PM
Upper house of Egypt's parliament, currently endowed with legislative powers, green-lights revised law on political rights to allow use of religious campaign slogans
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World
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Region
12/13/2012 11:44:29 AM
Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa has called on opposition forces to sit down and talk with the ruling dynasty over ongoing protests for political rights
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World
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International
11/1/2012 7:50:59 PM
UN experts review Turkey's rights record and 1991 Anti-Terrorism Law as almost 100 journalists are in prison as well as thousands of activists, lawyers, politicians, military officers and others
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Egypt
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Politics
4/24/2012 5:49:46 PM
Head of SCAF issues a statement on Tuesday respecting People's Assembly proposal on disenfranchisement law, despite having concerns it might unfairly bar some citizens from exercising political rights
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Presidential elections 2012
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Presidential elections news
4/4/2012 10:18:37 AM
Ambiguity over how and when the charges against El-Shater were dropped, giving him his full political rights, raises speculations over Muslim Brotherhood decision to file him as a candidate
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Elections 2011
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Laws and Processes
12/4/2011 1:53:32 PM
The “Law on the Exercise of Political Rights” regulates the manner in which citizens can vote and run for office.
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Opinion
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7/11/2011 3:23:43 PM
There is nothing within Islam to justify the unequal enjoyment of rights — including to right to hold public office — by women
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World
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Region
6/29/2011 3:16:12 PM
Saudi Arabia has arrested five women for getting behind the wheel in defiance of a ban on female drivers in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom
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