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MB In Tunisia: Ruling Against Shorow Criminalizes Freedom of Expression

The movement expressed solidarity with its former leader and invited all rights organizations and political parties to support its right to participation in the political, media, and cultural fields with the rest of the parties and national forces. The movement further affirmed its rejection of oppressive laws that choke political life such as the Party, Societies, and Press laws and called on all to join the struggle to cancel them. ..

Abul-Futouh: Gamal Abdel-Salam’s Arrest an Offense to Relief Activists

Secretary-General of the Union of Arab Medical Doctors and Member of the MB Executive Bureau Dr. Abdul-Mon’em Abul-Futouh criticized the arrest of Dr. Gamal Abdel-Salam, Head of the Emergency and Relief Committee in the Union, considering it "a big offense and inhumane message to any humanitarian worker."..

Postponing Trial of Three Torture Suspects

Cairo Criminal Court decided on Sunday to postpone examining the case of the three police officers who were accused of beating and torturing citizen Mustafa Labib Hamdan by electric shocks in different parts of his body which led to his death, to next Thursday at the request of the defense of the accused...

MB Welcomes Election of First Woman Mayor in Egypt

Muslim Brotherhood Executive Bureau member Dr. Osama Nasr welcomed the election of a woman as the mayor of an Upper-Egypt village on Sunday...

Second Anniversary of Egypt’s Reform Leaders Behind Bars

December 14 of this year is the second anniversary of arresting 40 Muslim Brotherhood leaders of the Egyptian national reform movement. ..

April 6 Movement Threatens to Internationalize Detainees Cases

The coordinator of April 6 youth movement Ahmed Maher threatened in statements to Ikhwanweb to "internationalize" the cases of April 6 detainees after two of the movement’s founders were arrested: Nour El Deen Hamdi and Ahmed Ashraf. ..

Judges Club Elections Decisive Battle for Independent Judiciary

Chancellor Mahmoud Al Khudairi a forerunner of Egyptian judicial independence movement and Vice-President of the Court of Cassation said in statements to Ikhwanweb that the next Judges Club elections, scheduled to be next February 13, will represent a decisive battle for the independence of the judiciary as the government is trying to weaken the role of the club. ..

IOF troops round up 14 Palestinians in a single village

The town of 2,000 inhabitants is located near to the separation wall that has eaten up most of its lands and is adjacent to the Salem army camp, which makes it a favorite target for daily army harassment. The IOF soldiers routinely round up youngsters from that village at the pretext they tried to sabotage the wall. ..

Nassif: Ballot boxes to show that Hamas is still popular

He underlined that PA chief Mahmoud Abbas’s term in office expires on 9th January 2009 and hence presidential elections should be held accordingly, but, he noted, legislative elections are due in 2010. ..

Swiss human chain delivers protest note to Egyptian embassy over Rafah closure

Anwar Al-Gharbi, the chairman of Rights For All society in Switzerland, said in a press release on Saturday that the human chain started from the Place de la Monnaie – Bel Air towards the Egyptian embassy. ..

Judges Speech to EU Parliament Delegation

The following is Ikhwanweb’s translation of the speech delivered by Judge Zakaria Abdel Aziz on behalf of Egypt’s Judges Club in the event of a visit by an EU Parliament Delegation to the Club last November 27. The speech included invitation to the EU Parliament to visit a conference dedicated to finding a solution to the Gaza Strip crisis after two months, which the delegation could not accept saying it could not bypass the general stance of the EU in this regard. The speech also hail..

MP Barghouthi castigates Abbas for calling for elections in WB only

RAMALLAH, MP Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi has described PA chief Mahmoud Abbas’s call for early general elections in the West Bank without the Gaza Strip as "insane and a crime". ..

Jewish settlers shoot, critically wound Palestinian child

AL-KHALIL, A Palestinian child was critically wounded on Friday when armed Jewish settlers encircled a Palestinian house and fired randomly in its vicinity in Al-Khalil city, eyewitnesses reported...

The Middle East’s Generation Facebook

Shahi’s boss, Prime Minister Ibrahim El-Houdaiby, 50, knew all about how computers could change not just a country but a movement, even the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist organization founded in Egypt in 1928 and of which both his great grandfather and grandfather were iconic leaders...

MB In Iraq Condemns Karkuk Bombings, Calls For Iraqi Unity

In press statements, the Iraqi Islamic Party, or MB in Iraq, condemned the bombings in Karkuk expressing their deep disappointment and pain due to the incident which they..

Egypt Police Arrest 117 Muslim Brotherhood Members in Two Weeks

Egyptian State Security police arrested 117 members of the Muslim Brotherhood from six governments in the last two weeks. ..

Muslim Brotherhood Is Considering National Coalition That Would Bypass Mistakes of the Past: Habib

The Muslim Brotherhood is currently considering a "national coalition entity" that "avoids the mistakes of the past" and "aims at building a strong alliance between diverse Egyptian forces," Muslim Brotherhood Deputy Chairman Dr. Mohamed Habib told Ikhwanweb Friday...

Rights Report Criticizes MB Military Tribunals and Municipal Elections Detentions

Report released by the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies criticized military tribunals for 40 Muslim Brotherhood leaders, main opposition group in Egypt, which lasted year long and ended with guilty verdict for 25 of them including Khairat el Shater, the MB deputy chairman, in a flawed trial that was widely condmened by international human rights groups for failure to meet basic justic standards and was marred by numerous violations...

Tunisia Muslim Brotherhood Condemns Arresting Former Leader

The Tunisian Renaissance Movement (Muslim Brotherhood) denounced arresting its former leader Al-Sadek Shorow after statements he released saying that he intended to return to his political activity. ..

Democracy ‘normalizes’ Islamists?

The report’s authors stress that such shifts are not an inevitable result of democratization. Critical variables encouraging ‘normalisation’ of Islamist parties include the existence of strong competition from other parties or movements; the legitimacy of countervailing forces or institutions; and the adoption of genuinely participatory, non-violent strategies. ..