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Two more siege victims fall in Gaza including mother of 11 children

Medical sources earlier announced the death of Enam Al-Shurafa, 60, who suffered from pancreatic tumors and was also denied travel permit to seek treatment abroad. ..

Health ministry denounces IOA blackmail of the sick and wounded

The IOA was not content with blocking treatment of the sick and wounded Palestinians in the Gaza Strip but also detained those patients for several hours under the sun heat then took them to underground areas for interrogation in Beit Hanun crossing (Erez) to blackmail them and obtain any intelligence information possible, "which is a serious precedence against the sick patients", the ministry elaborated. ..

Islamic Law is the Choice of Egyptians: MB MP

MP Ragab Abu Zeid (member of the Parliamentary bloc of Muslims brotherhood and member of legislative committee at People’s Assembly) expressed his hope that the government will show respect to the Egyptian people’s will to apply Islamic law. ..

MB MP: Local Councils Replete With Corruption

Magdi Ashour (member of the MB parliamentary bloc and member of the Local Administration Committee at the PA) has submitted an urgent query to the prime Minister and the Minister of Local Development regarding the report issued by "the Dialogue Meeting for Development and Human Rights.”..

Ikhwanweb Expresses Solidarity With Saad El Din Ibrahim

Ikhwanweb expresses its disappointment at recent court order on August 2nd, 2008 against Dr. Sa’ad el Din Ibrahim, professor of Political Sociology at the American University in Cairo and director of Ibn Khaldoun Center for Developmental Studies...

PA torments Palestinians on Israel’s behalf

PA security agencies have also violently suppressed peaceful rallies by the pan-Islamic Liberation party commemorating the downfall of the Ottoman Caliphate. Eyewitnesses said undisciplined policemen beat participants using plastic truncheons. ..

Report reveals violations against Palestinian children in Israeli jails

The report unveiled that the jailers in the Ofek juvenile prison located in the Sharon area tie up Palestinian children, force them to sleep on the floor for long hours and beat them with batons in addition to many violations of their rights. ..

Akef Calls on Palestinian Factions to Stop Mutual Accusations, Detentions

Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Mohamed Mahdy Akef called on Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to immediately stop exchanging accusations and detentions, and to work for a peaceful settlement of the crisis...

Turkey’s AKP escapes ban, tensions disguise ‘Islamo-secular convergence’

Turkey’s ruling AK Party will not be banned, the head of the Constitutional Court decided today. But the party will be denied state funding. There had been speculation that Turkey’s highest court could decide as soon as today whether to ban the ruling AK Party following the public prosecutor’s charges that the party is undermining the secular constitution..

Islamists gain from Mideast turmoil and democratic deficit

The Arab world is “a juxtaposition of many ideologies, identities, and governance Systems,” a new report from the Henry L. Stimson Center suggests. To understand current political trends it is essential to employ “a multi-level analysis that encompasses the wide range of identities and ideologies, from personal and tribal identity to concepts of statehood and nationhood.”..

Egypt’s bloggers and labor activists make common cause

Over a dozen Egyptian “Facebook activists” were arrested last week, as authorities continued to suppress a network resulting from a recent textile workers’ strike. ..

Sudan Bans YouTube Website, in an Unacceptable Violation of the Internet and Information Freedoms

The YouTube has become a key tool for political and internet activists recently, as in very recent months the activists had published many video clips some of which expose the Sudanese security personnel beating and torturing detained minors, whom were arrested and imprisoned on the background of the May 10th events, an armed attack on Khartoum by the Justice and Equality Movement JEM, for which Khartoum had launched a wide arrest campaign targeting Darfurian tribes...

Interview With Chairman of MB Political Department

Transcript of interview with Dr. Mohamed Morsi, Chairman of Muslim Brotherhood Political Department, member of Executive Bureau of MB and ex-member of Egyptian Parliament...

Ten Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Arrested in Mansoura, Egypt

Egyptian state security officers rounded up on Saturday ten Muslim Brotherhood leaders from the Nile delta city of Al Mansoura while they were holding their regular weekly organizational meeting, Ikhwanweb reporter said...

MB Bloc Positive and Passive Performance

Mahmoud Muslim (salon moderator) stated that this term was a lot long and witnessed many prominent and successive events and crises including what happened with MB MP Saad Abboud and passing many laws. ..

April 6 Youth Strike Before the Prosecutor General

A group of April 6th activists organized a sit-in before the prosecutor general’s office calling for the release of all detainees...

IOF troops kill Palestinian child participating in peaceful rally in W. Bank

The child was identified as Mohammed Husam Zanoun, 8, who attended the demonstration held by his village inhabitants to protest the Israeli seizure of their farms in favor of the apartheid, separation wall which the Israeli occupation government is building in the West Bank with the aim to transform it into geographically divided cantons. ..

PLC presidency meets with European multinational delegation on visit to Gaza

On behalf of Hamas bloc, MP Mohamed Radwan handed the delegation reports related to the Israeli siege in addition to a documentary film produced by the bloc titled "Gaza at the center of death". The film shows the extent of Gaza people’s suffering under the Israeli siege. ..

Ali El Din Helal criticizes Muslim Brotherhood’s vagueness

“I don’t think their program is realistic, they never tried to merge with the other influential forces. They discuss big goals without explaining their funding sources.” said Helal. ..

Butros Ghali: Miserable Human Rights in Egypt

“Globalization is a new phenomenon that needs to be prepared for in the coming period in order not to make Egypt suffer from international imperialism, because the rights institutions conditions in Egypt foreshadow the foreign interference in the internal and national issues like the pressures practiced against Late President Sadat to sign Camp David Treaty” Ghali stated. ..