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Rights Center Calls for Immediate Probe Into Assaults Against Journalists at Mansoura Hospital

Maat Center for Rights and Constitutional Studies has called on Egypt’s Prosecutor General and Minister of Higher Education to immediately investigate into the assaults that took place against journalists at the Nile Delta Mansoura University Hospital...

Salafis vs the Ikhwan in Egypt, Playing With Fire?

People are in despair in Egypt , they can’t find any other solutions except to commit suicide or risk their lives to get drowned in the sea or just wait till explode. They take religion as a shelter but the problem they need someone to help them understand well their religion, our education system only teaches people how to read and write only . Unfortunately also people can’t trust anymore the official Al-Azhar Sheikhs. ..

Saydnaya Prison in Syria, Forgotten Opinion Prisoners, Information are Absent, Barred Visits

Syria is a state that apply the State of Emergency for 45 years, where there traces of partisan diversity are not seen, repainting the political atmosphere with one lackluster color, brining the country to a state of no freedoms, and blatant violations of human rights by the regime, and necessarily enforced absence of the fourth power -Press- where the independent and partisan press fully disappeared, beside the internet on which the government has firmly tightened its grasp...

From Irgun to AIPAC: Israel Lobby’s US Treasury Follies Hurt

"Dissident Voice" -- - September 16th, 2008 -- According to the Jerusalem Post, the US Department of Treasury’s new Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) unit is going after the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines. TFI targeted the company and 18 affiliates for their alleged effort to "facilitate the transport of cargo ..

Freedom Committee Shows Solidarity With Two Prisoners Of Opinion

The Freedom Committee of Lawyers Syndicate criticized the continuous arresting of Muslim Brotherhood bloggers Mamdouh Al-Monayer and Mohamed Refaat, stating that it is working on executing the decisions of releasing both prisoners of opinion against the decisions of detention which the statement described as “random and illegitimate.”..

Postponing Sentence In Lawsuit Against “Al-Dostour” Newspaper

Boulaq Abul-Olaa Criminal Court decided on Wednesday September 17 to postpone pronouncing the sentence in the “insult” lawsuit by Mohamed Al-Sadeq , Adjutant in Al-Marg police station, against both of Ibrahim Essa, the editor of the Al-Dsotour daily newspaper, and Magdi Arafaa, a journalist at the same newspaper, because of publishing an article about the torture of a blind citizen and his family in Al-Marg police station by the adjutant...

Egypt Police Detains 19 Muslim Brothers From Nile Delta

State Security Prosecution decided on Wednesday September 19 to hold 19 of Brotherhood members in the Nile Delta governorate of Menoufiya who were arrested on Wednesday at dawn for 15 days, and they were referred to Shebin Al-Koum prison...

Egyptian Security Closes Al-Jazeera School, Despite Having License

Egyptian security authorities closed Al-Jazeera private School in Alexandria located at 21.5 km of Alexandria- Matrouh road. The school was closed on Tuesday September 16, a few moments before Iftar, where the security authorities have cordoned the school putting chains on its gates. ..

Egypt Police Arrests 15 Muslim Brotherhood Students, Professor

Egyptian security forces arrested on Tuesday 15 Muslim Brotherhood students from the Nile Delta city of Zagazig after storming an apartment where they were having the Ramadan breakfast...

State Security Bans Hassan Zalat From Travelling To KSA For Omrah

Security forces banned Hassan Zalat, one of Muslim Brotherhood leaders, on Tuesday September 16, from traveling to perform Omrah rites in Mekka...

Events Hosting Marc Lynch Next Week

Below are the events that will host Marc Lynch next week for those who are interested. ..

Hamas Will Not Recognize 2009 President Unless Elected: Mousa Abu Marzuk

In his statement to Ikhwanweb, Dr. Mousa Abu Marzuk (Deputy-head of the Political Bureau of Hamas) described Mahmoud Abbas’s statements on the extension of his presidential term as constitutionally illegitimate and against the Basic Law of the Palestinian Authority. He stressed that the Islamic resistance movement Hamas will not recognize any Palestinian Authority president after January 9, 2009 unless he’s newly elected...

Egyptian National Forces Unite In MB Chairman’s Iftar

National leaders and prominent public figures in Egypt gathered Monday on the Iftar table of the Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Mahdi Akef...

Morsy: "Reforms and Conserves," Foreign Terms Desperately Try To Invade MB After Failing To Stop It

In his statement to Ikhwanweb, Dr. Mohamed Morsi (Member of the MB Executive Bureau), denied the circulating rumor of the existence of "reformists and conservatives" within the movement describing the terms as foreign to the MB...

Residents of Al-Doweeqa Organize Open Sit-in before Cairo Governor Office

Scores of Al-Duweqa’s victims of the rockslide, including ladies and kids, have organized an open sit-in before Cairo’s governor office on Sunday in protest against the government’s dereliction of providing homes for them...

Hisham Mubarak Law Center Calls for New Labor Union Law

Hisham Mubarak Law Center Called for amending the legislation on Labor Unions no. 35 of 1976. Workers movement has repeatedly called for amending the law...

Tortured Ex-Colonel Case: Postponing Trial of Two Officers and Two Detectives

Al Ismailyya Criminal Court adjourned to November the trial of two police officers and two detectives at Al Ismailyya (second) police station, after accusing them of torturing the citizen Adel Al Shaer (ex- Colonel), treating him cruelly and causing him deficit in his ear by 80 %, according to medical reports...

Call for Lifting MP’s Immunity Reveals Blatant Despotism, Ignorance: MPs Media Spokesman

Media Spokesman of The Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary Bloc Dr. Hamdi Hassan stated to Ikhwanweb that the request to lift the parliamentary immunity of the MB Member of Parliament Hamdi Zahran by the president of Bany Sweif University Dr. Ahmad Refaat reveals “political ignorance” and “blatant despotism.”..

Rights Report: Egypt Slum Crises Are Aggravating

Sawaseya Center of Human Rights condemned the governmental negligence in dealing with Al-Doweeqa slum area catastrophe, and warned the general prosecutors from blaming the contractor -who was responsible for cleaning the dissolved rocks in the mountain- without developing a comprehensive report about the catastrophe...

Journalists Held Inside Al-Mansoura University, One Assaulted By University President

Many journalists and independent newspapers reporters in the Nile Delta governorate of Dakahliyya have sit in before the Office of the President of Al-Mansoura University on Monday September 15, demanding to meet him to inform him about their exposure to attack by the security at the university hospital during their coverage for the hospital fire...