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Movement Calls for Investigation With Security Leaders Involved In School Attacks

Egyptians Against Torture Movement requested a full investigation with all security leaders who were involved in the events of Al-Jazeera Islamic School. In their statement, they disapproved of the oppressive methods used by the security agencies against the citizens, considering the statement a general complaint filed to the Attorney General. ..

MB Condemns Terrorist Acts That Affect Innocent Lives

Commenting on the bombings of Damascus, which killed 17 people, Dr. Mahmoud Ghazlan, member of Muslim Brotherhood Executive Bureau, denounced any act of terrorism which leads to the loss of people’s lives, property, or dignity, as Islam criminalizes such actions..

National Theater Blaze

Attorney General Judge Abdul Majeed Mahmoud had decided, Saturday night, to assign a team of downtown Cairo prosecutors to inspect the impacts of the blaze. Mahmoud also decided to assign the Criminal Evidence Department and the Criminal Lab to examine the fire scene to determine its cause as well as its starting and ending points. Further, Mahmoud decided to form a technical committee to examine the damages caused by the fire...

Human Rights Network Asks Mubarak to End Ibrahim Eissa Trial

The Arabic Network referred to the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s decision to release the journalist Abdul Kareem al Khiwany, who had been sentenced to prison for six years, last Wednesday as well as the Moroccan King Mohamed Al-Sades’s grant of amnesty to Fo’ad Murtada, who had impersonated the king’s brother on Facebook, and hence was sentenced to prison for three years, last April. ..

International Organization Opens Dialogue with Egypt

Representing the international human rights organization, Freedom House, Mr. Joshua Muravchik Advisor on Democracy to the US Secretary of State and Dr. Matyas Eorsi, member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and former ..

Syria Muslim Brotherhood Denounces Damascus Bombing

General Supervisor of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood Ali Bayanouni denounced in a statement to Ikhwanweb the car bombing that hit the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday leaving at least 17 killed, all of whom are civilians. ..

Student Prosecutes Officer Who Assaulted Her

Students of Faculty of Engineering at Ain Shams University launched a campaign entitled “So as Not to Get Spanked” to raise students’ awareness about the security officers’ limits while treating them after a female student was beaten by a security officer on Thursday...

Seventeen killed by bomb in Damascus

DAMASCUS (AFP) — A car bomb exploded near a Shiite shrine in southern Damascus on Saturday killing 17 people and wounding 14 others in one of the deadliest attacks to hit Syria in a dozen years, state media said...

Al-Dostour Calls For Protest Against Detaining Its Journalist

Al-Dostour newspaper called Friday on journalists and media figures to protest against arresting its journalist Hosam Al-Wakil...

Who is behind Relentless, Obsession and The Third Jihad?

28 million copies of a DVD of the film “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” have been distributed free of cost in newspapers across the country. The film was first released a few years ago and has been shown around the country. I wrote about my impressions and concerns when I viewed the film in 2007 and again in early 2008 when “Fitna” another such film was released. Except for David Horowitz’ use of the film as the centerpiece of his Islamo Fascism Awareness weeks for ..

Tourist Hostages Transferred To Libya, Expected To Be Released

France-Press Agency confirmed the transfer of the tourist hostages to Libya according to a Sudanese official’s announcement on Thursday, September 25, that the ..

Request For Inquiry In to Those Responsible For Al-Duweyqa Rockslide

Members of the defense panel of Al-Duweqa victims including lawyers, writers, thinkers, professors, and professionals, requested the Prosecutor General to hold a criminal investigation against the Prime Minister, current and former Ministers ..

Breaking News " September "

The State Security Apparatus arrests Hosam Al Wakeel , correspondent of Addustour the independent daily newspaper, while he was ..

US Leaders Recommend Muslim Diplomacy

A diverse group of 34 US religious, business, military, foreign policy and academic leaders are recommending more diplomatic engagement and a more robust investment in economic development to help improve relations with the Muslim world. ..

MB Duty Is To Preserve Islamic Unity, Says MB Secretary General

Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat, Secretary General of Muslim Brotherhood, confirmed in a press release that the unity of the Islamic Nation is the origin of controlling relations among all kinds of Islamic sects without regard to doctrinal or sectarian orientation. Giving priority to the unified origin puts an end to all suspicions and disorders that lead to separation and dispersion, in addition to appreciating and respecting scholars which gives the nation the ability of resistance against all external challenges...

Luxor Prosecution Imprisons an Officer For Assaulting Judges

The Upper Egypt Luxor prosecution ordered on Wednesday September 24 the imprisonment of a lieutenant officer pending investigations on charges of assaulting judiciary member. ..

Democracy assistance still on the agenda

In this respect at least, public opinion seems to chime with the positions of both presidential campaigns. As president of the International Republican Institute, John McCain has long been committed to democracy promotion. Similarly, as analyst Amy Zegart notes, Barack Obama also “advocates democratization, the spreading of American values and American moral leadership”, albeit through a “kinder, gentler freedom agenda, but a freedom agenda nonetheless.” His leading foreign-policy advi..

"I am a Witness to the Changes in Islam"

Leading Islamic reformist and literary scholar, Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid, believes that individual freedom is an essential prerequisite to faith. Everyone, therefore, also has the right to convert to another faith...

600 Students Protest Against Assaulting Their Female Colleague

Ain Shams University witnessed on Thursday a sit-in organized by 600 students in the Faculty of engineering before the office of Dean of the Faculty Dr. Hadia Al Henawi to protest against the security confrontation with one of Muslim Brotherhood female students "Menna" and accusing her of stealing a student...

Brotherhood Chairman Visits “Al Wafd” Liberal Party, Invites Its Leadership For Coalition

For the first time since ending the conflict between two parts of conflict in Al Wafd Party, Muslim Brotherhood Chairman, Mahdi Akef, accompanied by a group of four MB leaders, visited on Tuesday the headquarters of Al Wafd Party located in Pauls Hanna street, to congratulate the party with Ramadan, as a substitute for the annual breakfast (Iftar) meeting which the security banned the MB from organizing...