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Court Releases Journalist Hosam Al-Wakil

South Cairo Court ordered Tuesday the release of Hosam Al-Wakil, journalist at Al-Dostor daily newspaper, after being kept at Wadi Al-Natroun and Al-Mahkoum prisons for more than 50 days...

Turkey Joins the Fray

Last week Turkey offered to mediate talks between Iran and the Obama administration. This fits into a pattern of recent diplomatic assertiveness on the part of Turkey in regional and global affairs. Iran said today that it would welcome a Turkish mediation role...

Prohibition of Publication in Tamim Case Is Worrying, Says MP

Member of the MB parliamentary bloc and the committee of culture and media Mohsen Radi expressed his deep worries about the decision of the chief of Cairo Criminal Court Al Muhammady Qansuh, concerning the prohibition of publication in the case of murdered singer Suzanne Tamim...

Mishaal explains to Mousa Hamas’s views on dialog

Khaled Mishaal, the supreme leader of the Hamas Movement, on Sunday evening conferred with Arab League secretary general Amr Mousa in Damascus on Palestinian developments especially reasons for suspending the national dialog before it started...

about that "freedom agenda"......

Jackson Diehl argues today that the Obama administration should back Arab democracy activists and not abandon the ’freedom agenda’. I fully agree with Diehl’s sentiments. Twice in September, at a Congressional panel discussion and at a GWU event with Saad Eddin Ibrahim, I argued that Democrats should not abandon their long-standing commitment to democracy and human rights just because that agenda had become associated with the Bush administration. I think that support for Arab popu..

Release Orders for Three MBs, Rejecting Grievances of Others

Al Zaqaziq court ordered on Monday the release of three MBs from the Nile Delta governorate of Al Sharqeyya after three months in jail. ..

Acquitted MB Leaders Still Suffer Ban on Movement

15 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, who were acquitted in the recent military case, told Ikhwanweb they are facing a lot of restrictions on their movement imposed by the military attorney-general on all leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood who were tried before the military court...

Report: Israel occupation demolished 90 Palestinian houses since Annapolis

The applied research institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ) reported that Israel occupation, since the Annapolis conference held in October last year, has embarked on building tens of thousands of settlement units in the West Bank and demolished 90 Palestinian houses at the pretext of illegal construction..

Khudari: Israel occupation disregards int’l appeals when it allows in 30 trucks

MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against the siege, considered Monday the Israel occupation intentions to open the Karem Abu Salem crossing in order to allow 30 trucks carrying aid and food supplies a disregard for international appeals...

Brotherhood MP Prevents Sectarian Sedition in Alexandria

Brotherhood MP Al-Mohammady Sayed Ahmad managed to prevent sectarian riots that might have flared up after a quarrel between a Muslim and a Christian at Ahmad Abu Suleiman district in Alexandria, Ikhwanweb reporter said. ..

State Security Cancels Talk Show Hosting Essam El-Erian

Egyptian Security Apparatus prevented the broadcasting of a TV program on the Lebanese Al-Manar Satellite Channel, whose guest was Muslim Brotherhood leader Dr. Essam El-Erian...

On Obama’s Inherited Freedom Agenda

In the Washington Post, Jackson Diehl argues that opting out of the promotion of democracy in the Middle East will not be an option for Barack Obama, and all that’s left is for him to pick sides in the struggle. Diehl writes that autocrats such as Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak feel emboldened by Obama’s election, seeing in it the official epitaph of Bush’s pestering freedom agenda. He cites the recent government-sponsored burning of jailed dissident Ayman Nour’s offices in Cairo as an example...

IOA opens Karm Abu Salem crossing only for limited aid quantities

The Israeli occupation authority on Monday opened the Karm Abu Salem crossing allowing entry of limited quantity of supplies to the Gaza Strip but retained the other vital crossings closed especially Nahal Oz through which fuel is transferred to the Strip..

Obeid warns of humanitarian disaster after power outage

Kanaan Obeid, the deputy chairman of the Palestinian energy authority in Gaza, Sunday evening warned of a real humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip after the electricity cutoff reached hospitals and sewage pumps...

Egypt Cyber Activists Receive Warnings to Close Down their YouTube, Flickr Accounts

Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas told Ikhwanweb Sunday that he received several warnings from YouTube administration that his account might be closed down because of a video of torturing a woman he once broadcasted through his blog..

Knesset MP calls for making lives of Gaza people insufferable

Gideon Ezra, a member of the Knesset for Kadima and a former minister of internal security, called on the Israeli government to tighten the noose on the Gaza Strip’s people and make their lives intolerable..

Khudari calls on Ban Ki-moon to visit Gaza

MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against the siege, invited Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, to visit the Gaza Strip and assume his huamanitarian responsibilities towards one and a half million ..

5,000 participants in RoR conference in Damascus

Rihab Mikahal, the director of the international forum on the Palestinian refugees’ right of return, has announced that the inaugural session of the conference would be held in the Faiha palace in Damascus due to the increasing number of participants..

Extending Detention of MB Professor, Eight Media Figures

State Security Prosecution decided on Sunday to extend detention of professor of Hadith at Al- Azhar University Dr. Abdurrahman Abdul-Barr and other eight media figures for 15 days...

Police Office, Soldier Convicted For Killing Civilian

Misdemeanors Court of Tahta City in Suhag governorate decided on Sunday to imprison in absentia both Lieutenant Mohamed Sadawi and soldier Ahmad Abdul Aal for three years, with LE 2000 bail and LE 10000 civil compensation, on charges of second-degree murder of 48-year-old Egyptian Eid Ahmad Tayee by their car...