Eye on Egypt ETF Following 'Elections'

Human Rights Watch has criticised Egyptian police for beating and arresting protesters at several peaceful rallies this month, saying the treatment amounted to "extrajudicial punishment.""Egyptian authorities should stop beating and arbitrarily arresting peaceful demonstrators and investigate those responsible," said Human Rights Watch deputy Middle East director Joe Stork in a statement late Monday."Security officials need to learn how to do their jobs without gratuitous violence that amounts to extrajudicial punishment," he said.

For more than 20 years, Beatrice Mtetwa has fought for freedom in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. It’s a battle that has pitched the human rights lawyer against the aging leader and his state-wide apparatus of terror and intimidation. Like the politicians, journalists and activists she often defends, Ms. Mtetwa has been the target of intimidation, beatings and now imprisonment.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday bemoaned the opposition boycott of this year's legislative elections, saying he would have preferred all parties to have done as well as possible."I am happy, as party leader, at the success of our candidates," he said, referring to the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) which secured 420 of 508 parliamentary seats in the polls on November 28 and December 5.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday bemoaned the opposition boycott of this year's legislative elections, saying he would have preferred all parties to have done as well as possible."I am happy, as party leader, at the success of our candidates," he said, referring to the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), which secured 420 of 508 parliamentary seats in the polls held on November 28 and December 5.

Egypt's ruling party said on Saturday that an opposition boycott of a second round of polling in a parliamentary election was nothing but a case of sour grapes on the part of losing candidates.The National Democratic Party, which swept the first round on November 28, is tipped to win all but a handful of seats in the run-off on Sunday after the two largest opposition groups announced their boycott."The NDP will treat the second round with the same resolve as the first round," said Sami Abdul Aziz, a media committee member of President Hosni Mubarak's party.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 82, who has been in power for the past 30 years, will contest next year's presidential poll, a high-ranking party official said on Thursday."The candidate of the National Democratic Party (NDP) will be President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak. At that moment, the candidate will be Mohammed Hosni Mubarak," Ali EL Din Hilal said in a radio interview broadcast by the Arabic-language US satellite TV channel Alhurra.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 82, who has been in power for the past 30 years, will contest next year's presidential poll, a high-ranking party official said on Thursday."The candidate of the National Democratic Party (NDP) will be President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak. At that moment, the candidate will be Mohammed Hosni Mubarak," Ali EL Din Hilal said in a radio interview broadcast by the Arabic-language US satellite TV channel Alhurra.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 82, who has been in power for the past 30 years, will contest next year's presidential poll, a high-ranking party official said on Thursday."The candidate of the National Democratic Party (NDP) will be President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak. At that moment, the candidate will be Mohammed Hosni Mubarak," Ali EL Din Hilal said in a radio interview broadcast by the Arabic-language US satellite TV channel Alhurra.