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IOF troops injure 7 participants in the Bilin anti-wall protest, assault MEP

The IOF troops injured on Friday afternoon seven participants in the weekly anti-wall demonstration held in the village of Bilin to the West of Ramallah...

Maguire: UN is responsible for every death resulting from the siege on Gaza

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who arrived in Gaza on SS Dignity a couple of days ago, held the United Nations responsible for deaths resulting from the siege on Gaza which has been in place for almost two years...

Who Will Speak for Islam?

The World Policy Journal’s 25th anniversary Fall issue is available free for the month of November. It includes an interesting article (pdf) by John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed titled “Who Will Speak for Islam?” In it, they use comprehensive survey data from throughout the Muslim world to discern future trends in governance, women’s rights, extremism, political reform, and the relationship with the West...

Dueling Political Conventions in Egypt

On November 1-3, Egypt’s ruling NDP will hold its fifth annual convention, in which it is ostensibly supposed to review the past year and suggest policy prescriptions going forward. In the Daily News Egypt, Khalil Al-Anani previews the conference. He predicts no new policy breakthroughs, and discusses issues the NDP would address if it were actually serious about redressing the past year’s ills...

Mahalla Laborers Protest Against Neglected Wage Requests

Workers in the Egyptian Company for Spinning and Textile in Mahalla organized a half-hour long strike yesterday, Thursday, in front of the company’s administrative building in Tal’at Harb Square to protest against the internal conditions the company has reached after losing 144 million pounds, according to the public society’s meeting which discussed the budget...

Lawyers Warn Government of Unexpected Escalation for Elections Derail

Lawyers with Various directions warned of an immense escalation against the Egyptian regime which seek to undermine their syndicate by having a receivership supervision over it through the temporary council resolution of the syndicate headed by Adel Andraws after the administrative juridical court verdict to stop the Bar Syndicate elections which was supposed to be in November, in addition to its resolution to wait for the temporary council to say its word regarding the objective side ..

Postponing Trial Of Al Maidan Journalist To November 20

Omrania Criminal Court decided to postpone the trial of Ahmad Abu Zeyada, a journalist in Al Maidan newspaper accused in the case fabricated by an officer in Giza Security Department, to the meeting of November 20, the next, until the attendance of Mr. Makram Mohamed Ahmed, the chief of Journalists Syndicate, according to the request of the journalist’s defense...

Warning of Government Obligations Shirk Toward Pensioner

Saber Abulfutuh, member of labor committee at People Assembly (PA) and member of the MB parliamentary Bloc condemned in an exclusive statement to IkhwanWeb the idea of founding a syndicate especially for the pensioners at this time, declaring the government objection to the foundation of any syndicates or unions and said that this issue stirs debate..

MB Candidate In Kafr el-Sheikh Stands For "People’s Assembly" Supplementary Elections

Dr. Hassan Abu Sheishaa, MB candidate in the elections of 2005 of Kafr el-Sheikh constituency, confirmed his standing for the supplementary elections of the constituency which are scheduled to be in November 10, the next...

Israel’s apartheid wall dislodges 28,000 Palestinians in three years

A survey conducted by the Palestinian central bureau for statistics revealed that the demographic impact of Israel’s apartheid wall have doubled in the last three years, asserting that the wall led to the displacement of about 3,880 Palestinian families composed of approximately 28,000 people...

Barhoum: Arrival of boat calls on Egypt to open crossing

Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, on Wednesday said that the arrival of the dignity boat to the Gaza Strip calls on Egypt to respond to the suffering of the Gaza inhabitants and open the Rafah border crossing...

MP Mansour asks for urgent relief aid to Gaza

MP Mona Mansour has appealed to the world at large and the Arab countries in particular, to expedite relief assistance to the besieged Gaza Strip following the torrential rains that flooded large areas of the Strip and caused severe material damage...

MB Candidate: Detentions Of MB Members In Kafr el-Sheikh Prove Regime’s Failure To Face MB

Dr. Hassan Abu Shaeishaa (Muslim Brotherhood candidate in supplementary elections in the first constituency in Kafr el-Sheikh governorate) confirmed in an interview to ikhwanweb that detaining six of his supporters is evidence on the failure of the regime to face the Muslim Brotherhood in any fair elections...

Student Killed Due To Poor Educational System

In his statement to Ikhwanweb, Member of the Educational Committee in the Parliament and MB Parliamentary Bloc Isma’il Tharwat confirmed that the killing of the student Islam Amr at the hands of his teacher Amr Ali is an outcome of the wrong foundations upon which the educational system is based especially that which provides a clear principle for reward and punishment. ..

Munufeya Lawyers Files Communication against Officer

The Bar Syndicate filed a communication to the prosecutor general in Al Munufeya and another communication to General Hamdy Al Deeb, the security director of the governorate against Major Amin Gafar, the associate detective of Qwesna center after he attacked the lawyer Mohamed Mursi in the police station...

Twelve Signees of Damascus Declaration Arrested

The Damascus Criminal Court pronounced prison sentences against twelve signees of the "Damascus Declaration for Democratic Change" in Syria for terms ranging from three to six years on charges of "weakening patriotic spirit by spreading false news." The judge, however, decided to merge the two punishments and reduce the prison term to two and a half years...

Six MB Affiliates In Alexandria Imprisoned For 15 Days

General Prosecution of Alexandria decided last Tuesday to imprison six affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood for 15 days pending investigations...

Shebin El Koum Hospital Fabricates charges Against Nurses of Strike

The strike the nurses of Shebin El Koum hospital went through remained for the fifth day in a row. The hospital administration holds the participating nurses responsible for the death of a burnt lady after falling of the hospital bed yesterday...

Lawyers’ Judicial Election Committee Suspends Election

The Bar Association’s Election Judicial Committee; presided by Judge Adel Androws head of Appeal Court, decided to suspend the syndicate’s elections which was scheduled to be held on November 14th, 2008 till a verdict settling the objective cancellation suit before the Administrative Judiciary is over depending on the Administrative Judiciary Court’s rulings...

MB Leader Mohamed El Helisi Detained For 15 Days

Prosecution of Kafr El Sheikh decided last Wednesday the imprisonment of Muslim Brotherhood leading figure Mohamed El Helisi for 15 days pending investigations...