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January 7, An Egyptian Day Against Torture

A number of Egyptian human rights organizations identified January 7 of every year as being the Egyptian day against torture, to accord it with the day in which the Egyptian government published its agreement of resisting torture, in 1988, in the Egyptian official newspapers...

Question To Prime Minister About Attacking Mansoura University Students By Thugs

MP Ibrahim Abu Auf, member of the parliamentary bloc of Muslim Brotherhood in PA, asked an urgent question to each of, Dr. Ahmed Nazif, the Prime Minister, Dr. Hani Helal, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and Major General Habib el-Adli, Minister of the Interior Ministry, about the entry of a number of thugs into the campus of Mansoura University under the supervision of the Security, and attacking students by swords and knives to disrupt the electoral process...

“Is There a Role for Shari’ah in Modern States?”

The Prince Alwaheed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University held a day-long conference on October 23, 2008 entitled, “Is There a Role for Shari’ah in Modern States?” ..

Sharqyia’s Lawyers Threaten Of Strike Due To Mistreatment Of Fellow Detainee

Lawyer Radwan suffered from many arrests due to joining the Muslim Brotherhood; however the recent one drastically deteriorated his health; some thing deserves the interference of the Bar Association. Radwan has been detained since last Ramadan amongst the round-up..

Shubra El Kheima’s Detainees Released

Egyptian security forces released two MB members from Shubra El Kheima city who were arrested Thursday dawn due to participating in the Anti-Gaza Siege Campaign...

Two Palestinians wounded in IOF shooting

Two Palestinian young men were wounded before dawn Saturday when an Israeli occupation army unit burst into the Fare’a refugee camp north of ..

Resheq: Hamas handed a written response to the Egyptian officials

Ezzat Al-Resheq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, stated that his Movement finished studying the Egyptian document and handed over a written response to the officials in Egypt, pointing out that the reply included remarks on the document and the necessary adjustments in order ..

Israeli settlers burn Palestinian olive lands in Nablus

Israeli settlers carried out Friday an arson attack on Palestinian olive groves in the Burqa village, north of Nablus, and hurled stones at civilian cars traveling along the main road in the village..

OIC condemns repeated Israeli aggressions on Aqsa Mosque

The organization of Islamic conference’s secretary general, Ekmal Eddine Ihsanoglu, has strongly condemned the repeated storming of the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem at the hands of fanatic Jews..

Abdurrahman Talaat Imprisoned For Aiding Prisoners

State Security Prosecution decided last Thursday the continuation of imprisonment for student Abdurrahman Talaat for another 15 days pending investigations..

Ministry of religious affairs calls for protecting mosques in Palestine

The ministry of endowments and religious affairs in Gaza on Friday called on the Arab and Muslim peoples to urgently act to protect the Islamic holy places in Palestine after receiving reports saying that Zionist parties especially Likud municipality candidate Arnon Giladi intend to turn the mosque of Salma village in Jaffa into a nightclub as part of his electoral propaganda..

IOF fire tear-gas, rubber coated bullets at anti-wall protestors

IOF troops fired rubber coated bullets and tear gas at the weekly anti-wall demonstration held Friday afternoon in the village of Bilin west of Ramallah causing tens of participants to suffer breathing difficulties. Hundreds of local residents and about two hundred foreign ..

The Palestinian Journalists Forum calls for release of Journalists

The Palestinian Journalists Forum (PJF) condemned, in a statement on Friday, the arrest, by the PA security, of Muhammad Eshtewi, correspondent of the Aqsa Satellite Channel in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarem..

More Arab and international MPs join the trip to besieged Gaza Strip

More Arab and foreign lawmakers have expressed their willingness to join the scheduled trip to the besieged Gaza Strip which the European campaign for lifting the Gaza siege is preparing for. ..

An Egyptian woman blogger has received an international prize

Renowned Egyptian blogger Nora Younis has received the annual human rights award from prominent U.S. based organization, (Human Rights First, - https://secure.ga1.org/05/support_heroes_hp)..

What Bush Hath Wrought in the Middle East

Robert Freedman says the major blunders were diverting attention to Iraq before Afghanistan was finished, and not using force on Iran’s nuclear program when we had the opportunity earlier. He gives a pass to the administration on Israel-Palestine, noting that it was the intransigence of the parties involved, rather than U.S. mistakes, that prevented a breakthrough..

Democracy in Egypt, One Text and Twitter at a Time

At Wired, David Wolman writes a long piece about how young democracy activists in Egypt are using new media such as Facebook and text messaging to consolidate and mobilize the opposition movement...

17 Released Of Gaza Supporters, Other 24 Imprisoned

Beni Sewaif prosecution ordered three of the Anti-Gaza Siege Campaign detainees released. The released are Mohamed Yousuf Gergawi, Mohamed Shaker Hussein, and Ashraf Abdullah Farag...

Two Brothers Detained For Supporting Gaza

Egyptian security forces went through intensive round-up campaigns yesterday dawn in Qalyubia governorate arresting two members of the Muslim Brotherhood from Shubra El Kheima city due to participating in ..

Teachers Criticize Gov’t Education Policies, Vow to Struggle For Reform

Hassan al-Eissawi, Secretary-General of Teachers Without Syndicate movement, stated in an interview with ikhwanweb that this academic year is considered the worst, criticizing the performance of the Education ..