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MB Chairman in Press Conference: Egyptian Regime Violated Every Thing Including People’s Freedom

Mohamed Mahdi Akef, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) chairman, confirmed that the Egyptian regime violated everything including people’s freedom and moneys, in addition to harming people’s source of living which have become a prey for the corrupt...

Political crisis set to worsen

Soon after the US destroyer USS Cole was deployed off Lebanon’s shore 28 February to "preserve political stability", a group of young men gathered around in the embattled agricultural town Qana in south Lebanon, and voiced their fears...

Khudari addressing Italian rally: Palestinians in need of support

MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular anti siege committee, has addressed a rally in Italy in support of the Palestinian people via telephone asking for more world support...

Egypt hits back at US over election comments

Egypt hit back at Washington on Friday for issuing an apparent warning in favour of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood by expressing concern over a "campaign of arrests" ahead of key elections...

Egypt bars 90 percent of Islamist hopefuls from vote

More than 90 percent of Egyptian Islamist candidates have been prevented from registering for April local elections due to a crackdown by the regime and a campaign of obstruction, one of their leaders said on Thursday...

Crackdown on Egypt’s Brotherhood personnel

The Internet has proven to be one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s main means of attracting attention, but a government campaign to arrest its editors is making the organisation’s power to disseminate ideas a struggle...

Rights Group Calls For End Of Police Campaign Against Brotherhood Media

Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) called on the Egyptian government to end its campaign against media professionals affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The statement by the pan-Arab rights advocate comes as the opposition group’s editor-in-chief of Ikhwanonline, Abdul Galil Al Sharnouby, had his home broken into on Wednesday morning...

Cairo Municipal Elections Without MBs

Dr. Hazem Farouk, member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s parliamentary bloc, said no potential candidate managed to submit election papers to stand municipal elections in Cairo on Thursday, March 13. ..

Egypt Suspends Natural Gas Exports to Israel

Egyptian sources in the oil and gas sector attributed this step to Cairo’s desire to use gas exports as a political bargaining chip on Israel to stop its operations in Gaza Strip...

Ikhwanonline website chief editor is being hounded, and declares a sit-in in syndicate of journali

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information denounced today the continuation of the police campaign launched against media professionals who belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood as it included the union journalist Abdul-Galil Al-Sharnouby, the editor-in-chef of Ikhwanonline website as a police force broke into his yesterday at dawn, yet by coincidence, he was out of house at that time. After knowing about his arrest order, he rushed to the syndicate of journalists in which he still ke..

700 potential opposition candidates arrested ahead of Egypt’s elections: Islamist lawmaker

Only 60 out of 10,000 members of Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood have been allowed to register their candidacies for April’s local council elections due to government interference and 700 have been arrested since registration began, said one of the movement’s lawmakers Monday...

67% of Egyptians Believe Military Tribunal for MB Leaders Unjust

In a recent poll conducted by the Arab Network for Human Rights, 67.53% of Egyptians surveyed rejected the military tribunals for Muslim Brotherhood leaders and called it “unjust and unfair””, only 15% supported the trials. 18.43% participated in the poll stated they were not aware of the trials and could not give an opinion. ..

U.S. Criticizes Egypt’s Handling of Upcoming Elections, Arresting Opponents

we are concerned by a continuing campaign of arrests in Egypt of individuals who are opponents of the current governing party and are involved in the upcoming local elections. The people of Egypt should be permitted to choose freely among competing candidates. We call on the government of Egypt to cease any actions that would compromise the ability of the Egyptian people to fully exercise their internationally recognized human rights and to participate in a free and fair election..

Four deaths: whose security?

Access-related deaths of patients referred to medical care outside Gaza are hard to determine with statistical certainty. Since several factors are involved, it is very difficult to define how far the delay or denial of a permit has influenced the final outcome in each case...

Hamas calls on Islamic summit to assume its duties towards Aqsa Mosque

The Hamas Movement warned on Monday that the Israeli excavations being carried out under the Aqsa Mosque pose a real to threat to it, calling on the Islamic summit, which will be held in two days in Dakar, to shoulder its responsibilities towards the Mosque and to support the Palestinian people’s resistance...

MB and democracy, again

This afternoon I spoke at a panel at Brookings with Daniel Levy about Islamist movements. I’m not sure what the rules of engagement were, so I won’t talk about any of the content really...

Egyptian Security Forces Raid Dozens of MB Houses Across the Country

Sweeps of arrests undertaken by the Egyptian authorities against the Muslim Brotherhood affiliates have continued today where the security forces raided dozens of MB houses in a number of governorates...

Police Storms House of Ikhwanonline Chief Editor

Egyptian State Security forces broke into the house of Abdul-Galil Al-Sharnouby today dawn (Wednesday March 12, 2008). Al-Sharnouby is the editor-in-chief of Ikhwanonline, the Muslim Brotherhood official Arabic website...

Al Katatni: 60 MBs Registered for Municipal Elections, 700 Detained

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc and independent MPs called on the government to stop its intervention in the nomination process of the municipal elections so that citizens can practice their constitutional right...

More MBs Detained in Several Governorates

Egyptian security forces continued its crackdown agaist the Muslim Brotherhood affiliates by detaining a number of MB leaders today dawn (Tuesday March 11, 2008) in four governorates...