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Journalists challenge Egypt’s exceptional laws at seminar

CAIRO: Journalists on Thursday considered the role of the press in challenging exceptional laws during a seminar held at the Hisham Mubarak Law Center...

Is democracy a security issue?

The problem that authoritarian regimes have with democracy is not only that it may undermine the foundations of authoritarianism and tyranny and reveal the false legitimacy on which such regimes rely to survive, but also in the redistribution of roles and power on an equal basis where there is no place for security forces, corruption or favoritism...

Ayman Nour may receive presidential pardon, says El-Ghad

CAIRO: Ayman Nour, founder of El-Ghad Party and former presidential candidate, could be released from prison on a presidential pardon, due to be announced today. ..

April 6 detainee recounts alleged prison torture

CAIRO: Mohamed Salah Marei is a 23-year-old student in his fourth year of veterinary science at Mansoura University who doesn’t really want to be a vet. ..

Vulnerable State

Failed states in the world today are two kinds: vulnerable countries and the most failed states, as per the mainstream classification of countries in accordance with their level of performance and ability to achieve their tasks...

Muslim Brotherhood condemn price hikes

Despite keeping a low profile during the April 6 and May 4 general strikes, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) denounced the recent price hikes that were approved by the People’s Assembly (PA) this week, in a press conference Wednesday...

A human rights crime in Gaza

The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world by sea, air, or land. An entire population is being brutally punished...

Demystifying the Muslim Brotherhood

I think it’s an appropriate time to ask: How many Egyptians actually belong to the Muslim Brotherhood..

Brotherhood blogger prevented from leaving the country

An Egyptian blogger and journalist Abdel Moneim Mahmoud was stopped at Cairo Airport Thursday evening and prevented from travelling from to a conference on press freedom in Morocco...

Easter calls

Last Christmas eve, I received a surprise telephone call from Mr Mohamed Mahdy Akef, the Supreme Guide of Muslim Brotherhood. He passed his greetings on to me and my family on this occasion and wished me a prosperous life...

In Focus: Risks of excluding the Brotherhood

The military sentences issued against some members of the Muslim Brotherhood represent a turning point in the relationship between the group and Mubarak regime. This is not only because they are harsh, as they are the harshest rulings against the group since the trials that took place in the 1960s during the Nasser era, but also because they are not commensurate with the political weight of the group, which occupies 20 percent of the seats in parliament...

In Egypt, democracy is the only solution

News agencies reported last month that President Mubarak ordered the army to intervene to resolve what has come to be known as the "bread crisis" in Egypt...

Will Egypt’s police officers go on strike too?

“Even police officers might go on strike” was a headline in a major independent newspaper in Egypt some time ago when a ruling NDP MP filed a request to raise police officers’ salaries. ..

The Muslim Brotherhood: A Body without a Mind

This question still begs a clear answer. It has also disclosed the size of the mistakes the group is constantly committing and has undermined its popularity and the trust the people have placed in it. The group has refused to participate in the April 6 strike in which all other political forces have joined. And it has justified its position by saying that it was not invited to the strike and that it did not know the political orientation of the parties and forces that have called for..

Suppressing the Muslim Brotherhood is Not a Solution

The Egyptian regime is mistaken if it thinks that it can exclude the Muslim Brotherhood from the political arena, not only because they are the only power with popular and organizational influence, but also because they represent an Egyptian cultural and intellectual state — that is, seeing religion as a means to reform and change...

In Focus: The MB and Municipal Elections: Losses without Gains

The Muslim Brotherhood group recently announced in a statement and on their official website, that it will field candidates in the April 8 municipal elections, stressing that their participation is a religious duty...

50 people, including journalists, arrested before Kefaya protest begins

Around 50 people were arrested Thursday before a Kefaya-organized protest against the abolition of ration cards began in downtown Cairo...

EOHR criticizes new law on protests in places of worship

Disputes over a new law prohibiting protests or demonstrations in places of worship continue, with the law currently under discussion in the Legislative Committee before being voted on at the People’s Assembly (PA). ..

MB accepts democracy, regime impedes reform, says Habib

It is the incumbent regime and not the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) that is the real obstacle to reform in Egypt, deputy head of the banned group Mohamed Habib told Daily News Egypt..

In Focus: The Brotherhood Trial: Is it almost over?

The recent decision by the military court trying 40 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has triggered speculations as to the future of this case and the nature of its final verdict. ..