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Morsi: Neglecting Human Development is the Cause of Egypt’s Failure

Muslim Brotherhood Executive Bureau member Dr. Mohamed Morsi said Egypt’s ranking in the latest Failed States Index indicates the tragedy the country reached due to the policies of the current regime that puts human development at the end of its priorities...

Prisoners of opinion in the shadow of the pyramids

Reporters Without Borders is urging foreign holidaymakers planning to visit Egypt this summer to reflect about some of the harsh realities of life behind the scenes in the country of the Pharaohs...

Five Muslim Brothers Arrested for Showing Solidarity with Palestine

Egyptian Security Forces arrested five Muslim Brotherhood members Thursday at Belbis city after organizing a show in solidarity with the Palestinian cause last Friday...

Ahmed El Nahhas, Another Victim of MB Military Tribunal

Ikhwanweb is publishing a series of interviews that were conducted with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members who were acquitted from the most notorious military tribunal last April. After some 70 court sessions in a period of fourteen months which observers and media were not allowed to monitor, and after civil courts dropped all charges against defendants and deemed them “politically motivated” the verdict session was held in the absence of the accused and their defense panel who di..

El Katatni Reveals MB Performance in Latest Parliament Round

The third round of the current 2005-2010 People’s Assembly term has been the most heated parliamentary round in the history of the Assembly, observers said. Although it started quietly but it flared up in the last month in which the government passed- through the majority of the ruling National Democratic Party- most bills starting from the child law amendments through traffic law, real-estate taxes, monopoly exercises and others...

Criminal Court Releases 71 Muslim Brothers

East Cairo Criminal Court has passed a verdict releasing 71 leading figures of the MB who were detained prior to the latest local council elections last April...

Coptic Intellectual Says MB Won’t Oppress Copts

Coptic intellectual Milad Hanna said Sunday the Muslim Brotherhood should be granted official recognition by the government and that it adopts tolerance towards Copts, al-mesryoon website reported him as saying...

Egypt’s never-ending state of emergency

“When the Egyptian people speak out against poverty and an inert government, human rights abuses follow.” Mustafa Adam-Noble looks at the various ways that suppression in Egypt is growing. ..

MB MP Criticizes the Maltreatment of Burg El-Arab Prisoners

Mohamed Mustafa Al-Adly (member of Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc) has criticized the maltreatment of Mahalla’s detainees at Burg El-Arab prison. ..

MB Deputy Chairman Responds to Critics of Recent MB Internal Elections

The latest organizational elections within the MB Shura Council which added five new members to its Executive Council, the highest decision making authority within the MB, stirred political controversy by critics who questioned its transparency and what they considered an attempt by the "conservative wing" to ensure its hegemony within the MB...

April 6 Activists Call for Rally to Discuss Egypt’s Problems

A group of April 6 internet activists has called upon university professors, academicians, intellectuals, journalists, and politicians to organize a symposium at the Journalists’ Syndicate late this month to discuss the political, economic, and social problems in Egypt and express the turndown of the current policies...

Scientific Research in Egypt Lives a Delirium State: MB MP

MB MP Mohsen Radi submitted an inquiry to the Minister of Higher Education about the status of scientific research, saying it suffers “anemia and delirium.” He cited what an economy professor in Developing Countries Research Center said, that the scientific environment in Egypt is not appropriate for scientific research despite the fact that some 120 thousand Egyptians work in that field. ..

HRInfo Condemns Ratification of Satellite Broadcasting Charter

The Arab Network for Human Rights Information (HRInfo) has condemned the findings of the Arab Ministers of Information held at the Arab League’s Headquarter last week. HRInfo asserted that the Arab Ministers have launched the so-called Arab Commission for E-media to tighten the grip around the freedoms of the printed, Electronic, and Satellite media...

Hassan Zalat: Fourteen Months in Prison Hospital

Ikhwanweb is publishing a series of interviews that were conducted with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members who were acquitted from the most notorious military tribunal last April. After some 70 court sessions in a period of fourteen months which observers and media were not allowed to monitor, and after civil courts dropped all charges against defendants and deemed them “politically motivated” the verdict session was held in the absence of the accused and their defense panel who di..

Sawaseya Center Condemns Punishing Student for Criticizing the President

Sawaseya Center for Human Rights and Combating Discrimination has denounced the punishment of high school student Ahmad Mohamed Hassan for criticizing the president. In a press release, Sawaseya stated that the student’s anger is “justifiable” and deserves no penalty. Hassan wrote the phrase “Tyrant ruler and tyrannized people” in protest against two things: the difficulty of the Arabic Language exam and asking the students to pay money for hosting the exam supervisors. Becaus..

MB Professor Al Faramawi Recounts Fabricated Charges

Dr. Abdul Hai Al Faramawi- born in July 1942 in the governorate Monoufia- is former dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies, Al-Azhar University, a former chairman of the Quran interpretation and sciences, a member of the permanent academic committee for the promotion of professors in the university, a member of the faculty board, a member of the academic researches committee in Umm Al-Qura University, the Secretary-General of the teaching staff members club of Al-Azhar University, a ..

Ousting Muslim Brotherhood MP Shows NDP Double-Standards: MPs

The People’s Assembly has under the agreement of the NDP majority cancelled the membership of Mukhtar Al-Beeh (member of the MB parliamentary bloc from Suahg City) in favor of NDP candidate Hazem Hamdi (State Security General) claiming elections in his constituency were null. The event raises many questions to analyst and opposition MPs. Why did the PA decide to reopen the judicial verdicts relat..

A Lawsuit Demanding Official Release of MB Military Tribunal Verdicts

Lawyers of MB second deputy chairman Khairat El Shater and the 16 other convicted MBs have filed an appeal to the Administrative Court demanding immediate release of the official copy of April 15 verdicts. The MB defense panel says the ruling of April 15 in the case no 2, 2007, is practically null and void according to the law, since Article 312 of the penal code annuls a verdict if it was not followed in a period of at least 30 days by a formal..

The Muslim Brotherhood is Pro-Dialogue, Engagement of Women and Copts : Habib

The Muslim Brotherhood agrees upon the recommendations mentioned in the latest International Crisis Group report, MB deputy chairman Mohamed Habib told Ikhwanweb Wednesday. “Egypt’s Muslim Brothers Confrontation or Integration” is the latest report issued by the Brussels-based think-tank the International Crisis Group through which it urges the Egyptian regime to normalize the Muslim Brotherhood’s participation in political life and dismisses the latest government crackdo..

El Shater’s Family May Appeal for his Release Due to Health Condition

MB second deputy chairman Khairat El Shatter was not able to complete his treatment at Al Manial University Hospital Tuesday due to the absence of his specialized doctor, security officials told his family. He was transported to the hospital supposedly to receive treatment of his inflamed knee. Prison officials said he will return to the hospital next July 20. ..