Egyptian Activist: Women's Rights Better Under Mubarak...

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Egyptian Activist: Women’s Rights Better Under Mubarak Than Muslim Brotherhood

Dalia Ziada, an Egyptian human rights activist announced that the situation for women in her native country was better under Hosni Mubarak than it is now under the Muslim Brotherhood.

“It is sad to say that the situation for women was much better during the Mubarak era,” the activist told ANSAMed.

“It was not the best possible but it was still better than today because there was a state which supported women’s rights.”

Ziada, who serves as director of the Ibn Khaldum Center for Democratic Studies said that women are “an integral part of Egyptian society” even though they are the ones hardest-hit by the economic crisis.

“Over 30 percent of women are ‘caring women’ like widows or divorcees who are working to support their families,” Ziada told ANSAMed.

“They work at a time when men are having a hard time finding a proper job.”

She also noted that underprivileged women fared well in Egypt under Mubarak as they were sponsored by the former leader’s wife, Suzanne Mubarak.

Now “they have no one sponsoring them.”

“Suzanne Mubarak was a women’s rights activist before being the president’s wife and a staunch supporter of new laws in favour of women…Now we have a regime which is very hostile to women, an extremist regime of the Muslim Brotherhood which doesn’t like women, least of all in public life and the economy.”...

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Official: No legal grounds to keep Egypt's Mubarak detained
Jan 13,`15 ~ An Egyptian judicial official says there are no legal grounds to keep deposed President Hosni Mubarak in detention after an appeals court ordered his retrial in a corruption case.

The official at the chief prosecutor's office says Mubarak has the right to walk free after the country's top Appeals Court ordered a retrial in a corruption case against him and his two sons earlier Tuesday.

It was the only case still keeping Mubarak behind bars. Mubarak has already been cleared over the killings of protesters during Egypt's 2011 uprising that toppled him.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to media. He says "paperwork is being processed" for Mubarak's release but declined to speculate if and when that could happen.

News from The Associated Press