Egypt vote monitors say state hindering their work
By REUTERS
CAIRO - Foreign observers of Egypt's first real leadership contest will be unable to say whether the process is free and fair because their movements are being restricted by election authorities, one of the groups supposed to be monitoring the vote said.The election to decide who succeeds ousted president Hosni Mubarak after more than a year of interim army rule begins in a week, but international observers have not received the documents they need to be witnesses, said Sanne van den Bergh, field office director at the US-based Carter Center."Even three weeks ago would be quite late. Normally we witness candidate nominations, voter registration, certainly the campaign period. We cannot comment on the entire process if we have missed those aspects," she told Reuters in an interview.Read full story here.Vancouver police arrest pro-Hamas woman who chanted ‘Long live October 7
