• June 6, 2007
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Middle East: Egyptian Democrat Optimistic About Region’s Democratic Prospects

Middle East: Egyptian Democrat Optimistic About Region’s Democratic Prospects

Saad Eddin Ibrahim is one of the Arab world’s most prominent voices on behalf of democracy and human rights. An Egyptian, he was arrested in 2000 and sentenced to seven years but freed again in 2003 when Egypt’s highest appeals court declared his trials improper and cleared him of all charges.