New York Times notes (5/12/2009):

There is, however, a way to navigate the issue of human rights, said Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian democracy advocate living in self-imposed exile because the government has threatened to jail him. He said he recently spoke with Mr. Obama’s advisers and suggested that the speech address the “infrastructure of democracy, which to us is the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, free media, autonomous civil society and gender equality.”

“If those five things are emphasized without talking about democracy as such, we democrats in nondemocratic countries would be more than happy,” he said.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/world/middleeast/12egypt.html?th&emc=th