Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Mike Posner says the current election taking place in Egypt is only the first stepping stone to creating a sound democracy. ‘There’s a big agenda beyond the elections. As Secretary Clinton has said often, a sustainable democracy requires a vibrant civil society,…

On Tuesday, several hundred protesters rallied outside the newly elected parliament in Cairo, with one common battle cry: for the lawmakers to enforce harsher rules on the military government, for swifter and fair trials, and the settlement of the claims made by the families of those killed during protests since…