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MB MP: Gov’t Must Allow Stranded Egyptians To Return Home

Brotherhood MP Farid Ismail has denounced the passive attitude of the Egyptian government towards stranded Egyptians on the Rafah crossing border and called on the government to allow them immediate access to the country. ..

14 Muslim Brothers Arrested, Four Released

Egyptian State Security forces rounded up on Sunday 14 Muslim Brotherhood members from the city of Al Monofeya without any obvious reasons, Ikhwanweb reporter said...

Invitation for a Press Conference on MB Military Tribunals

Sawaseya Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Center invites you to attend a press conference on Sunday to announce its report about Military Tribunals against Muslim Brotherhood leaders. ..

MP Abul-Fotouh: Selling Free Pilgrimage Visas Is a Scandal For Egypt’s Gov’t

Brotherhood MP Saber Abul-Fotouh said it’s scandal and an indication of the economic failure of the government to sell 10,000 pilgrimage visas offered for free to Egypt by Saudi Arabia to travel agencies for 120 million Egyptian pounds...

MP: Gov’t Must Put an End to Maltreatment of Egyptians at Foreign Embassies

Brotherhood MP Farid Ismael has submitted an urgent query to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding the maltreatment of Egyptians at foreign embassies, saying it abuses Egyptians’ dignity. ..

Cultures of Resistance

Cultures of Resistance Activism Forum is a project that aims to address the Western hostile use of language intended to restrict debate related to mainstream Islamist movements and currents. The project will explore more effective means to respond ..

Concluding the Investigations with the Journalists of Addustour and al Tariq and Releasing them from

The Northern Giza Prosecution concluded its investigations with each of Ibrahim Mansur the executive editor-in-chief of Addustour newspaper, Akram Omran, Khalid ..

MP Condemns Assault Against MB Students

Deputy Secretary General of MB parliamentary bloc has strenuously denounced Ain Shams University’s crackdown against MB students ahead of the new academic year, saying it will increase tension inside campus and terrorize students who want to practice their political rights. ..

Rights Report Reveals Shura and Military Trial Violations

In its 18th annual report, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) condemned the condition of human rights in Egypt in the year 2007. It also criticized the turning over of the MB leaders to military trials and the obvious violations of rights that were committed during the Shura elections, confirming that Egypt had broken all the pledges it made regarding human rights in front of the world. ..

An open letter: Father to father

The moment I heard the news of your son’s death, I found myself speaking aloud to him. "Ya Ahmed, please give my regards and my love to Abir. Your two pure souls will meet in paradise. Go in peace, beloved, do not fear for you are not alone -- there are others there waiting for you. Ready to greet you are more than one thousand Palestinian children who have been killed since the year 2000. And though I hope with all my heart, Ahmed, that you will be the last victim of these legitimized..

Jewish International Opposition Statement Against Attack on Iran

Efforts to beat the drums of war for an attack on Iran’s nuclear reactor facilities are promoted in both the USA and Israel scenes. The recent New York Times opinion piece of July 18th, written by the Israeli historian Benny Morris, serves to consolidate those political forces. The Jewish opposition here expresses our outrage in order to ..

Jailed Nur urges Obama to back Arab democracy

CAIRO - Jailed Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nur called on US presidential hopeful Barack Obama to support human rights in the Arab world in a letter published on Wednesday. ..

Muslim Brotherhood Condemns Tripoli Bombing

The Muslim Brotherhood expressed its concern over Wednesday’s bombing in the Lebanese city of Tripoli that killed 11 at the heals of a vote of confidence on the new unity government...

Five Muslim Brothers Detained Two Days After Acquittal

The Interior Ministry issued a decision Wednesday to detain five Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members from the Delta province of Kafr El Sheikh, two days after they were acquitted by Kafr El Sheikh Court of First Instance. ..

Brotherhood MP Calls On Gov’t to Uncover Investigations Into Pop Singer Murder

Dr. Hamdi Hassan (member of the MB parliamentary bloc) has submitted a query to the Minister of Justice regarding the decision passed by the Prosecutor General Abdul-Majeed Mahmoud to ban the publishing of any information related to the assassination of Lebanese pop singer Suzan Tamim in Dubai...

Radi: Seizing Sunday’s Edition of Al Dostour is a Scandal for the Egyptian Regime

“I wish that the security devices will investigate about the seizing of Sunday’s edition of Al Dostour to protect press freedom and the newspaper’s literary right at the first place before the financial one,” he told Ikhwanweb..

"You Get Used To It" -- Torture and The Police in Egypt

Beating, rape, torture. Hundreds of videos on Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas’s blog misrdigital.com document these incredible acts of violence by officers in the Egyptian police force on Egyptian citizens. Abbas spoke to us in the noisy underground room ..

Israel Unveils Intentions to Build New Settlement in W. Bank

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli media outlets revealed Monday that officials in the Israeli war ministry made a proposal calling for building a new settlement outpost in the West Bank near occupied Jerusalem. ..

Beyond Chutzpah

Israel is very much behaving like a whore who urges her town’s folks to erect a great memorial plaque to celebrate and glorify her chastity...

Abul-Futuh Rebukes Interior Ministry over Traffic Law

MP Saber Abul-Futuh (member of the Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary Bloc) criticized the Ministry of Interior for citizens’ lack of awareness of the new traffic law. ..