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Egyptian Court Drops Prison Sentence against AlJazeera’s Huwaida Taha

An Egyptian court dropped a 6 month prison sentence against reporter Huwaida Taha of Aljazeera channel. Taha faced this sentence on charges of "possessing videos of a documentary about torturing in police stations"...

Int’l Conference Against Occupation BeginsThursday in Cairo

The sixth International conference against Israeli and American Occupation will kick off Thursday March 27 for three days in Cairo. Political movements, popular committees, civil society institutions and independent figures along with representatives from the Muslim Brotherhood will participate in the conference. ..

MB Candidates Arrested in Monufeya

New sweeps of arrests took place today at dawn in Monufeya governorate, Egypt where the state security forces detained a number of MB affiliates who registered themselves as candidates in the upcoming municipal elections...

PA Agriculture minister condemns Israel for killing Palestinian farmers

Dr. Mohamed Al-Agha, the agriculture minister in the PA caretaker government, strongly denounced the Israeli occupation for targeting Palestinian farmers while working in their lands the latest of them was farmer Yousef Abu Daher, 55, who was shot deliberately by IOF troops in Khan Younis. ..

Caretaker gov’t: We refuse to stake the Palestinian cause on American dictates

The caretaker government headed by premier Ismail Haneyyal expressed its utter rejection of staking the Palestinian cause on the American dictates, considering the PA’s attempt to disclaim its responsibility towards the Sana’a declaration comes in response to those dictates. ..

CIHRS calls for ending suppression over human rights activists in the Arab region

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), called upon the international community to exert effective efforts to urge Arab governments to duly reconsider their legislation, policy and practices contravening their international obligations to protect freedom of assembly, freedom of expression and freedom to form associations, including non-governmental organizations...

Military Court Postpones Its Ruling to April 15th

Egyptian military court adjourned till April, 15th, its session in the trial against 40 Muslim Brotherhood leaders topped by eng Khairat Al Shater the second deputy chairman of the group...

Akef: Applying Sharia Reinforces Status of Minorities in Muslim State

Mohamed Mahdi Akef, chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood group, denied that adhering to Islam and making it a system of life through applying Islamic Sharia hurts none Muslim minorities in the Islamic Nation, and it doesn’t harm unity among all components of the nation...

Arab Commission for Human Rights, European Arab Cultural Meeting

The Paris based Arab Commission for Human Rights held on Saturday March, 23rd, 2008, in the Parisian suburb of Malacove, a workshop entitled "In defence of civil society, freedom of speech in the Arab world"...

Military Court Decides Tuseday Fate of 40 Egyptian Reformers

A military court in Cairo will decide on Tuesday March 25t, the fate of 40 Muslim Brotherhood leaders after a year long trial whch captured the attention of human rights activists throughout the world...

Violette Daguerre’s Comments on the Military Tribunals

The ACHR (Arab Committee for Human Rights) has taken a prior decision to watch the military tribunals of the MB due to the deteriorated conditions in Egypt and the deficient support of the MB court-martialed leaders by the international and Egyptian human rights societies; the ACHR specified certain time and effort to make the world realize the gross violations against the political and civil societies in Egypt...

ACHR Launches New Web Site on HR in the Arab World

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information released a new website titled Qadaya (-http://qadaya.net) which provides a legal and human rights service for journalists, lawyers and human rights activists in Egypt and the Arab world...

Rough justice for Egypt’s Brotherhood

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is the country’s most popular political movement, despite a 1954 ban. It won one-fifth of the seats in the People’s Assembly in 2005, becoming the largest opposition bloc in Egypt’s history. Stunned by their success, the regime has come down hard on political opponents...

Final Statement of Brussels Meeting on Egypt ’s Human Rights

The Belgian capital Brussels hosted on Thursday March, 20th, 2008, a conference about freedoms in Egypt . The conference, entitled " Human Rights In Egypt Uncertain Future ?!", was organized by the London Based Justice International, the Paris based Arab Commission for Human Rights and the Coalition for Freedom and Dignity in Brussels in addition to "Release40", the international campaign calling for releasing the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders referred for the military court...

MP Tafesh: Prisoners suffer very harsh living conditions in Israeli jails

Newly released MP Khaled Tafesh revealed that the conditions of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails are miserable and intolerable, where the Israeli prisons’ administrations deliberately suppress prisoners through maltreating them and banning the entry of food and financial allowances given by their families.p..

Three American Human Rights Activists Will Observe Military Court Verdict’s Session Tomorrow

A top US human rights delegation will arrive in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Monday at noon, March, 24th, to show solidarity with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders transferred to the military court and to monitor the sentencing session scheduled to be held on Tuesday, March, 26th...

Khudari: Palestinian people waiting for decisive Arab summit decisions

MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the chairman of the popular committee against the siege, called on the Arab summit to break the suffocating siege on Gaza Strip and to open the crossings to save Gaza from the "Zionist genocidal war"...

Ministry of detainees appeals to Red Cross to save female hunger striker

The ministry of detainees and ex-detainees in Gaza appealed Sunday to the Red Cross and women’s rights organizations to save urgently the life of female prisoner Nora Al-Hashlamon, 37, from Al-Khalil, who went on hunger strike for the twelfth consecutive day in the Israeli Talmond prison for women...

Four MB Candidates Arrested During Campaign Stops

Damanhour’s prosecution in Behera governorate, Egypt, ordered detention of four Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidates who have succeeded in registering their names as candidates in the upcoming municipal elections..

Egyptian elections: Brotherhood says it’s ready

In two weeks’ time Egyptians will head to voting booths to cast ballots in what analysts say could be one of the most important elections in the country’s modern history...