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MB advocates: We reject such decisions; we accept acquittal only

In a statement on Tuesday April 4th 2008 after the military tribunal’s decision, Subhi Salih, an advocate of the MB court- martialed, said that the advocates refuse such unfair decisions and insist on the nullity of the tribunal and the decisions. They state that it is a baseless- case; it is mainly political...

Internet Campaign in Egypt to Boycott National Newspapers

Under the motto of "No for Perversion…No for Falsification", a group of internet bloggers and forums has launched its popular campaign for boycotting the Egyptian official papers (Al-Ahram, Al-Akhbaar, Al-Jumhuria, and al-Mesaa), because they allude and conceal the facts of the political and living conditions of the Egyptians, especially after recent local elections, April 6th strike, and al-Mahalla events...

Habib: Unfair Military Decision undermining Egypt

Muhammad Sayed Habib, first deputy chairman of the MB, has stressed that the decisions passed by the military tribunal against 40 MB leading figures are unfair, unjust, strange, mainly political, and passed by unspecialized military court proved to be contradicting, fragile, and without any legal evidence, because the natural courts acquitted them. ..

MB: Military Court Rulings Will Further Tarnish Egypt’s Reputation

Dr, Mohamed Habib, first deputy chairman of the MB, has stressed that the decisions passed by the military tribunal against 40 MB leading figures are unjust and mainly political. He criticized the military court which issued the verdicts and called it fragile and inexperienced...

Perversion of justice - 25 face jail in Egypt

An Egyptian military court sentenced 25 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood to jail on Tuesday - a verdict described by Amnesty International as a "perversion of justice". ..

Abul-Futouh: MB Major Factor in Egypt’s Stability

Abdul-Moneim Abul-Futouh, member of the MB executive bureau, denied charging the MB with weakening Egypt through demonstrations or boycotting the local elections under an international strategy aiming at undermining Egypt ...

State Prosecutor Orders Ikhwanweb’s Chief Editor Released

The New Cairo state security prosecution ordered the release of Khaled Hamza, Ikwanweb’s editor in chief, and other two MB detainees who were previously detained during the municipal elections phase, while the prosecution issued a decision of prolonging the jail of other nine MB detainees, who were arrested at the same time, for more fifteen days...

European campaign: Mass death in Gaza during the coming five days

The European campaign to lift the siege on Gaza warned that Palestinian patients in the Gaza Strip are going to die in large numbers if the Israeli occupation continues to prevent the entry of necessary fuel supplies...

Journalists and MB Supporters Harrassed Prior to Military Verdict

The verdict in the military tribunals in which 40 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders are tried, topped by Eng. Khairat Al-Shater, second deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, is expected to be declared today in the tribunal’s last session...

Rallies in Cairo for releasing April 6th Strike

Egyptian lawyers and detainees’ families have organized protesting rallies to immediately release tens of detainees who have been arrested due to the strike of al-Mahallah al-Kubra in April 6th in which there were many confrontations between the security forces and civilians leading to killing two persons and injuring tens. ..

Chief of NCHR: Muslim Brotherhood has nothing to do with violence

During Muntaha al-Siyasah broadcast on Saturday on al-Mehwar Egyptian satellite channel, Kamal Abul-Majd, head of Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), stated that the emergency law is the real reason behind arrests and augured well that this law might be changed very soon. He asserted that new code has not been submitted to the NCHR though asking for it many times; every time the government would reply that the law has not been finished yet and it will be submitted once th..

Democracy – Egyptian Style

Hopes for political reform and increased participation in Egypt faded with the events that marked the 2008 local council elections, which have cast a gloomy shadow over the future of democracy, rights and freedoms ...

Hamas Welcomes Carter-Mashaal Meeting, Israel Condemns

Israel has condemned a meeting of Jimmy Carter; former president of America , with Khaled Meshaal; head Hamas politburo in Damascus , during his tour in the region...

Engaging Hamas

An issue of much deliberation in the blogosphere lately has been the initiation of negotiations with Hamas. Former U.S President Jimmy Carter has recently made his intentions known, once again, that he’d favor meeting with the Palestinian group in light of the increasing failure of the current American policy of isolation...

Al Qaeda to Iran

LATEST movements in Washington’s war lobby indicate a reassessment of the Iraq policy with Iran slowly replacing Al Qaeda as the prime terrorism threat as officials juggle with justification for continued surge level troops...

Jordanian Islamist warns of an unprecedented reaction if Gaza siege persisted

Dr. Ruhayyel Al-Gharayba, the deputy secretary-general of the influential Islamic Action Front party in Jordan, has slammed the stand of the Arab regimes vis-à-vis the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza...

Masri: Abbas and his team trade Palestinian blood for political gains

Prominent political leader of Hamas Movement in Gaza Strip MP Mushir Al-Masri has unequivocally accused on Sunday PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and his negotiating crew of participating in the siege on Gaza, and of trading the blood of the Palestinian people to achieve political gains. ..

Nafha society appeals for releasing imprisoned mother in Israeli jails

The Nafha society for the defence of human rights appealed to international human rights organizations especially those concerned with women’s rights to pressure Israel for the release of a Palestinian mother called Zuhour Hamdan, 44, from Nablus detained in the Israeli Hasharon prison...

Mashaal: The Palestinian people will impose siege breaking on Israel and US

Khaled Mashaal, the head of the Hamas political bureau, stated Saturday that the Palestinian people would impose siege breaking on the Israeli occupation and the American administration, and their will on the international and regional community, pointing out that the Palestinian people can no longer be patient with this grievance...

A Humanitarian Campaign for the Release of Prisoners of Conscience in Syria

The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) in cooperation with the Arab Orient Centre for Strategic and Civilization Studies has launched a humanitarian campaign for the release of prisoners of conscience, of which there are Syrians, Lebanese, Jordanians and Palestinians...