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Statement: The Muslim Brotherhood Condemns Bush’s Visit

George Bush has headed to the region to share the Israeli occupation its 60th anniversary of usurping Palestinian land and expelling its residents with the complicity of the international community and weak Arab regimes...

Egypt Rights Groups Call for Repealing Emergency, Anti-terror Bill

Fourteen Egyptian rights groups called on the UN to pressure the Egyptian government to prevent the renewal of the 27-year-old state of emergency and the proposed anti-terror bill. ..

Egypt Rights Groups Call for Repealing Emergency, Anti-terror Bill

Fourteen Egyptian rights groups called on the UN to pressure the Egyptian government to prevent the renewal of the 27-year-old state of emergency and the proposed anti-terror bill. ..

MB MP Warns Against Revolution of the Hungry

Ahmad Abu Barakah (member of Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc, and the Legislative Committee at the Egyptian People’s Assembly) held the government responsible for the astronomical price hikes that hit Egypt recently and have gone out of control. ..

Egypt: Elections and Future of the Muslim Brotherhood

Egyptian parliamentary elections held April 7-8 attracted scant foreign notice and extremely low voter turnout at home. Unlike in 2005, when it made gains that shocked the Egypt’s ruling party, the opposition Muslim Brotherhood wound up boycotting these elections in the face of a government crackdown...

Middle East: Egyptian Democrat Optimistic About Region’s Democratic Prospects

Saad Eddin Ibrahim is one of the Arab world’s most prominent voices on behalf of democracy and human rights. An Egyptian, he was arrested in 2000 and sentenced to seven years but freed again in 2003 when Egypt’s highest appeals court declared his trials improper and cleared him of all charges...

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. Opinions differ on when to date the formation of this ‘culture.’ Some date it to 2002 with the pro-Palestine solidarity protests, others to 2004 with labour protests and the birth of Kifaya, still others to 2005 with the mobilisation accompanying the presidential and parliament..

The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

Attached are two files (pdf and powerpoint) for a slideshow prepared by Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations about the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza Strip in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. All the included data is based on the United Nation’s (UN) Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports. ..

Galloway: Oslo did not liberate one inch of the Palestinian lands

British MP George Galloway stated that the Oslo agreement did not liberate one inch of the Palestinian lands, admitting that he had committed mistakes in the past regarding his outlook for the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict. ..

Egypt’s Facebook Revolution

When most people log onto Facebook, the thought of fomenting revolution is pretty far from their minds. But in the Middle East, and most recently in Egypt, Facebook has become an important platform for dissent in countries that routinely clampdown on liberal activists, and where the mosque has traditionally been the only outlet for venting political frustration...

MB MP Holds Gov’t Responsible for Ranking Egypt -18 in Latest UNHRR

Mahmoud Amer (member of the MB parliamentary bloc) held the government responsible for rating Egypt (-18) in the latest United Nations Human Rights Report (UNHRR)...

Facebook Campaign to Release Brotherhood Professor Faramawi

Facebook activists have commenced a popular campaign calling for the release of Abdul-Hai Al-Faramawi, Muslim Brotherhood professor of Religious Studies at Al-Azhar University. The campaign is titled “The Popular Campaign for Releasing Faramawi”...

The Movement Against High Prices Praises Opposition and Independent MPs

The Movement Against High Prices expressed its dismay that businessman and MP Adel Ezz remains the sole monopolizer of iron industry in Egypt while he continues to chair the Planning and Balance Committee in the parliament which is the same committee that passed the recent increase of fuel prices. ..

Detainee Killed by Police in Mattariyah Station

The Ministry of Interior continues its crimes against civilians at police stations; a prisoner has been killed recently at Mattariyah’s prison at Daqahlia governorate. There are several stories about the scenario of the killing. ..

A Memo to the Prosecutor General Calling for El Shater’s Release

The defense panel of the 18 Muslim Brotherhood members (including MB third-in-command Khairat El Shater) who received prison sentences in the military case no 2 for the year 2007, submitted a memo Wednesday to the prosecutor general calling for their immediate release because their jail sentences have no legal grounds. ..

Press Conference Invitation

The Rights Institutions who defend the Opinion, Expression and Press Freedoms in Egypt, the members of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange Network "IFEX", Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, and Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies are motivated by their belief in the importance of supporting the journalists against the violations they are exposed to, and the abuses threaten the Press Freedom...

Eight MB Students Referred to Investigation Prior to Exams

Eight Muslim Brotherhood students at the faculty of engineering Fayoum University were referred to investigation board days prior to their final exams on charges of organizing a graduation party for their colleagues and professors. This is the same charge filed against four students from the same faculty this past week..

Assessing the Muslim Brotherhood "Firewall"

In a number of recent articles I have argued that the Muslim Brotherhood can serve as an important "firewall" against al-Qaeda style radicalization in Arab countries (while simultaneously taking seriously the concerns that it might act as a "transmission belt" towards radicalization under certain conditions). ..

Brotherhood MP Criticizes Al-Azhar Imam’s Statements on Strikes

Ali Laban (member of Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc) has strenuously criticized the statements made by Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi, Grand Imam of al-Azhar, to Saudi newspaper Ukaz deeming strikes religiously forbidden...

MB MP: Gov’t Exonerated Israel for Killing Egyptians

Mohamed Al-Adli (member of the MB parliamentary bloc) has submitted a query for the foreign minister regarding abandoning the rights of the three Egyptian soldiers killed at the hands of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on the Egyptian- Palestinian borders. ..