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Rights Group Calls for Ceasing Military Trials of Civilians

Sawaseya Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Center has expressed its solidarity with 49 Egyptians from Mahallah al-Kubra city who were detained in the awake of April 6 strike and were trialed Sunday before Tanta Higher State Security Court...

Campaign Against U.S. Aid to Israeli Occupation

An American NGO concerned with American foreign policy in the Middle East has organized a campaign against the U.S. aid to Israeli occupation, accusing the U.S. administration of squandering American taxpayers’ money on building Zionist settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, America In Arabic news agency said Monday. ..

MB Defense Challenges Military Verdicts

Defense panel of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders who received jail sentences in the military tribunal in case no. 2 of 2007 decided on Monday to file a challenge before the Higher Court for Military Contests, the panel said in a press release...

Morocco: Jadda Boubkar is an Opinon Prisoner and Must be Released

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information “anhri.net” said today that the Moroccan authorities should release the student and the opinion prisoner “Jadda Boubkar, 22 years old, who was arrested on 21st July, while leaving the university in Taza City, because of his student activity, and his support to boycotting the complementary elections, and criticizing the educational policies and repressive practice by the police forces against the students. ..

Egypt: Security Authorities Confiscate Al Dostour Newspaper from Stores

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (anhri.net) said Monday that security agencies had confiscated Al Dostour independent newspaper from stores following the newspaper publicity of story that involves an Egyptian businessman association with the murder of Suzanne Tamim, the well known Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim in Dubai the Emirati city. ..

Mahdy Akef: Freedom Requires Sacrifice

In his weekly message, Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Chairman Mohamed Mahdy Akef said that the criteria for any nation’s development is its regime’s reverence of constitution and the rule of law, and that the Egyptian people are responsible for leading the way for change in the Arab and Muslim worlds. ..

NGO: 62 Protests By Workers And Peasants In Egypt During July

The Earth Center for Human Rights revealed in a press release Sunday that the labor movement has witnessed at least 40 protests during the month of July...

MB MP Criticizes Gov’t Restriction on Internet Users

MP Dr. Hamdi Ismail (member of the parliamentary bloc of Muslim Brotherhood) denounced the latest censorship procedures taken by the Egyptian government against internet cafes, saying they aim at “spying” on internet users and “intruding on their privacy.”..

MB Bloc Urges Restraint in Mauritania, Asks Leaders to Put Nations’ Interests First

Hussein Muhammad Ibrahim (spokespersonof the MB parliamentary bloc) called upon Mauritanian factions to give precedence to the national interests and to seek solutions through dialogue...

Egypt: Increase in Censorship and Internet Users’ Privacy Violation

Said the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information today that, “The Egyptian government imposed a new measurement which increases the extent of the censorship on Internet users, and violates their right to privacy. ..

MB Lawyers Receive Written Military Verdicts

The defense panel of the MB who received military rulings in case no. 2 of 2007 has already been handed a copy of the verdicts findings, MB Attorney Abdul Monem Abdul Maksud told Ikhwanweb Sunday...

Egypt demanding data from cyber cafés users: NGO

CAIRO (AFP) — An Egyptian NGO on Saturday accused the Egyptian authorities of forcing cyber cafés to gather personal information on Internet users, saying the measure was a violation of privacy...

Mubarak ’may seek another term’

Cairo: The new leader of the Egyptian protest movement Kefaya, which tried to prevent the re-election of President Hosni Mubarak in 2005, said yesterday Egypt now faces the possibility that Mubarak will seek another term...

Awkaf: Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem American backed

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Quds committee in the PA caretaker government’s ministry of Awkaf and religious affairs has charged that the Israeli systematic settlement policy in occupied Jerusalem was American backed...

Brotherhood MP: EOHR Report Should Be Positively Addressed By Gov’t

Commenting on the latest EOHR annual report, MP Sabry Amir (member of the MB parliamentary bloc) criticized the Egyptian government for its deteriorating human rights record, and called on the government to take the latest EOHR report seriously...

Four Myths about Protest

It’s now widely recognized that social protest has become a staple of Egyptian politics, what some journalists and researchers have taken to calling an emergent “culture of protest” among an aggrieved citizenry. ..

FPWATCH: On the Muslim Brotherhood

Mr. Khaled Salam, the co-editor of IkhwanWeb, the English-language website for the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), stopped in to respond to many commenters" negative views on the Brotherhood and its goals. In the course of what proved to be an intriguing dialogue, the subject of the organization"s most recent political platform came up. ..

Three years and three days

So much for what we had grown used to thinking of, half-jokingly, as the Arab world’s only democracy. Three years and three days after the coup that deposed a much-hated and brutal dictator, Mauritania’s generals decided they would get rid of President Sidi Mohammed Ould Cheikh Abdellahi, an ineffectual politician and undoubtedly bad leader who nonetheless had the merit of having been fairly elected...

Relatives of stranded Gaza patients hold Egypt responsible for their lives

GAZA, (PIC)-- Relatives of Gaza patients waiting to travel abroad for treatment held Egypt responsible for the lives of their loved ones calling on the Egyptian government to immediately open the Rafah crossing...

MB Defense: Excluding MB Detainees from Amnesty is Unconstitutional

Defense panel of MB leaders who received prison sentences in the latest military tribunal has filed a contest against the president’s decision to exclude jailed MBs from his decision no. 200 of 2008 to amnesty some sentenced prisoners during the 56th anniversary of July 23 revolution...