support Ayman Nour for democracy in the Middle East.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke

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Alert April 18, 2006

Imprisoned opposition leader investigated for "insulting" president, denied right to disseminate written material, told by prison authority to cease criticisms

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Call from Ayman Nour to All Human Rights Organizations

To: Human Rights Organizations
From: Dr. Ayman Nour, prisoner at the Tura Mazara'a General Prison
April 17, 2006

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Nour threatens new hunger strike in jail
(AFP)

17 April 2006

CAIRO — The jailed leader of Egypt’s opposition Ghad (Tomorrow) party will go on hunger strike if the prosecution does not improve the conditions of his detention, his wife and spokeswoman said yesterday. Read this Article

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Egypt opposition leader Nour moves court against ban on writing
(AFP)

13 April 2006

CAIRO — Jailed Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour filed a petition yesterday accusing prison authorities of banning him from writing articles for his party newspaper, his wife said. Read this Article

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Press Release
Ayman Nour and His Defense Make Serious Charges against
The Prisons' Authority in a Complaint to the Attorney General
Nour's Sons and Supporters Assaulted during Investigation at the South Cairo Prosecution

April 13, 2006

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Government punishes Nour for not “behaving”

April 13th, 2006 at 11:42am Ursula Lindsey

Al Dustour, an opposition weekly, has just run an article about the deteriorating conditions under which Ayman Nour is being held.

Dr. Ayman Nour is living this tragedy in a narrow room at the Tura Mazraa prison. He was obliged to choose to stop taking his medicine or using the hospital’s health care equipment for fear that he would receive an AIDS infection or be infected with the skin disease after the prison administration transferred four AIDS patients who had earlier been in isolation and three others suffering from scabies.[…] Read this Article

CAIRO — Egyptian authorities have stopped jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour sending articles to his party’s newspaper, Nour’s wife Gameela Ismail said yesterday. “The prison authorities said he is not allowed to send written papers outside the prison anymore,” Ismail said told Reuters after meeting Nour in prison. “There is a decision to stop him from writing,” she said. Read this Article