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Islamist Group Pressures Egypt’s Ruling Party

Ever since it won 88 seats (out of 444) in the 2005 parliamentary elections, the Muslim Brotherhood has shown itself to be Egypt’s most disciplined and well-organized political force...

Egypt Police Arrests 12 year Old Boy on the Eve of Local Elections

A 12-year-old boy was arrested from street Monday by security police in the northern Egyptian city of Damietta while he was playing with his friends in front of his house, Ikhwanweb reporter said. ..

AI, Church of England delegates visit charities threatened with IOA closure

Delegations from Amnesty International and the Church of England visited Palestinian charities in Al-Khalil city that are threatened with closure at the hands of the Israeli occupation authority (IOA)...

Muslim Brotherhood Withdraws From Municipal Elections, Calls on Egyptians to Boycott the Vote

The Muslim Brotherhood decided it will be fruitless to compete with a handful of candidates who are living in fears and are not able to even campaign for their elections without the thoughts of being arrested and harassed by security forces. ..

Bani Suwaif’s University Professors and students rally for Dr. Badee

Members of professors’ body and students of the veterinary medicine faculty at Bani Suwaif University have rallied for the release of Dr. Muhammad Badee Abdul-Majeed, professor at the faculty and a member of the MB’s executive bureau who was detained Friday dawn; April 4th 2008. They showed their solidarity with him calling the authorities to release him immediately...

If Americans Knew

It’s not a coincidence that Pro-Israel Jewish Americans, like Eliot Abrams, Dennis Ross, and Martin Indyk, are usually appointed in charge of Middle East policy, especially the Israeli Palestinian conflict...

Physically-assaulted female prisoner appeals to save her from losing eyesight

A female prisoner in the Israeli Hasharon prison called Shireen Hasan from the Bethlehem city appealed to human and prisoners’ rights organizations to intervene to save her from losing her eyesight after an Israeli interrogator beat her severely and struck her head against the wall many times...

Barghouthi: Settlement expansion surged about twenty-fold since Annapolis

Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, a lawmaker and the secretary-general of the Palestinian national initiative, said on Sunday that the pace of settlement expansion has surged almost twenty-fold since the Annapolis conference, adding that the total settlement units under construction are 11,332...

April 8 Local Elections Annulled in more Cities in Egypt

The Administrative Judicial Court in Fayoum governorate has annulled the municipal elections in all the city’s local constituencies. The court’s verdict issued on Sunday (April 6th) comes after 22 MB candidates in Fayoum could not be enlisted in the elections despite the court verdicts to enroll them...

Strike Turns Egypt ’s Main Squares into Military Barracks, Detentions Underway

The Egyptian regime has made preparations, during the past few days, to confront the April, 6th strike called for by political powers to voice their protest at the price hikes...

Iran joined militias in battle for Basra

IRANIAN forces were involved in the recent battle for Basra, General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, is expected to tell Congress this week...

HRW Urges Abbas to punish killers of Majd Barghouthi

The American Human Rights Watch organization has called on PA chief Mahmoud Abbas to bring to trial those who tortured Majd Al-Barghouthi, a Mosque Imam, to death while in PA detention...

Health ministry denounces world silence over growing number of Gaza victims

The health ministry in the PA caretaker government has denounced the world silence over the growing number of victims of the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip that reached 124...

Egypt: Municipal elections on Tuesday 8 April, concerns mount

Next Tuesday, 8 April, sees municipal and local elections taking place across Egypt. These should have taken place two years ago but were postponed by the authorities until now...

Egypt Administrative Courts Annull April 8 Local Elections

The past week witnessed a large number of court rulings accross the country which in effect cancel the upcoming local elections and consider the President’s call for elections null and void...

Hayya: The caretaker gov’t is to expand its cabinet soon

Dr. Khalil Al-Hayya, a prominent Hamas leader, stated that the PA caretaker government headed by premier Ismail Haneyya is working on expanding its cabinet to promote and facilitate its administrative duties, stressing at the same time the unity of Hamas positions inside and outside Palestine and the failure of the Israeli siege to eliminate it...

IOF troops kill Palestinian farmer, wound another

In the context of the Israeli crimes against Palestinians especially farmers, the IOF troops killed at noon Saturday a Palestinian farmer while working in his land and wounded another east of the Jabalia town, northern Gaza Strip...

Five Leading MBs Arrested in Monofia, Candidate Kidnapped in Damietta

The Egyptian security forces launched a new arrest campaign Saturday dawn including five leading MB figures in Monofia governorate: Naguib Athareef, Dr. Muhammad Ayyad, eng. Ahmad Al-Hefnawi (city of Shebeen), Mahmoud Abdullah (city of Shebeen), and Hajj Ashour (Sars Allyyan)...

Is Striking Really Effective? Opposition Figures Answer

Dr. Abdul-Halim Kandil, a distinguished member in Kefaya pro-reform movement, said in a phone interview with Ikhwanweb that different forms of civil disobedience and strikes are the only choice in front of Egyptians...

Egypt arrests 34 Muslim Brotherhood members ahead of elections and general strike

Egypt arrested 34 members of the Muslim Brotherhood Friday, including a top decision maker, continuing the government’s crackdown against the country’s most powerful opposition group ahead of this month’s municipal elections...