Brussels, 08/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - Amnesty International and several other human rights defence organisation have called on the European Union to break the silence and to strongly condemn the recent attacks by the Egyptian authorities against civil society. They notably denounce the arrest and incarceration of Doctor Saad El Din Ibrahim, Director of the Centre for studies on the development of Ibn Khaldoun, and at least eight of his colleagues. This attack "is part of a strategy of...