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Egypt: New Investigation Needed Into Assault on Sudanese Protestors

Prosecution Decision to Close Inquiry Into December 2005 Killings Seriously Flawed A joint statement by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, Hisham Mubarak Law Center and the Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence ..

Resheq: Reasons for blocking Palestinian pilgrims unacceptable

Ezzat Al-Resheq, the prominent Hamas political leader and member of its political office said on Tuesday that all reasons presented to justify the blocking of Palestinian pilgrims are "unacceptable"...

MB Military Tribunal Adjourned till Thursday, Defense Rejects It

The Military Court adjourned till next Thursday, 3rd, Jan, 2008, its trial against 40 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders topped by Khairat Al-Shater and Mohamed Ali Beshr, members of the MB Executive Office. On Monday’s 46th session, lawyer Hazem Salah Abu Ismail - Al Shater’s lawyer- continued his pleading- lasted for six hours- in which he refuted the content of the investigations report and rejected the court, considering it incompetent to see the case...

US mayors’ report: Hunger and Homelessness Intensify in US Cities

The number of people hungry and homeless in US cities rose dramatically again in 2007, according to the annual report on hunger and homelessness from the US Conference of Mayors. The 23-city Hunger and Homelessness Survey was released in late December...

B’Tselem: One third of Palestinians killed by IOF troops in 2007 were civilians

B’Tselem, the Israeli information center for human rights, has announced in a report published on Monday that more than one third of Palestinians killed at the hands of IOF troops in 2007 were civilians. ..

Hamas calls on Egypt to ensure swift return for Gaza pilgrims through Rafah

Hamas called on Egypt in its capacity as the sole owner of sovereignty over its lands, borders and crossings to ensure an immediate and dignified return for the Palestinian pilgrims through the Rafah border crossing, rejecting their return through any other Israeli controlled crossings because they would be vulnerable to maltreatment and arrest...

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It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003. ..

Barhoum: IOA in collusion with Fatah insist on closure of Gaza crossings

Fawzi Barhoum, the Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip, has charged the IOA in collusion with certain parties within Fatah faction with insistence on maintaining all Gaza crossings closed with the hope to topple the Hamas Movement...

Number of victims of IOF siege of Gaza rises to 60 with death of infant

A 61-year-old cancer patient, a seriously ill woman and an infant died on Tuesday bringing the number of Palestinian patients who died in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli oppressive siege to 60...

Nazzal: Abbas not concerned with national dialogue

Mohamed Nazzal, a member of Hamas political bureau, charged on Sunday that PA chief Mahmoud Abbas is not concerned with national dialogue or unity and that he intentionally puts obstacles in the way of any initiative to end the inter-Palestinian crisis in response to the Zio-American demands, renewing Hamas’s call for unconditional dialogue to resolve the crisis...

Masri: Fayyad is playing a dirty role in the pilgrims’ crisis

Hamas lawmaker MP Mushir Al-Masri said on Monday that the day when Palestinian people kick Salam Fayyadh out is near, after his illegitimate government condemned the resistance attack in Al-Khalil city Friday. ..

Second Palestinian pilgrim dies as Egypt blocks pilgrims

Another elderly Palestinian female pilgrim has died Monday after Egyptian authorities refused to allow thousands of Palestinian pilgrims cross into the Gaza Strip...

Hamas wants pilgrims pass through Rafah, says temporary camps unacceptable

Hamas Movement on Sunday urged the Egyptian authorities to allow 2,400 Palestinian pilgrims cross into Gaza Strip through the Rafah terminal, asserting that sheltering those pilgrims in temporary camps would aggravate their suffering further. ..

Change and reform bloc warns of serious threat to the life of Haneyya

MP Yahya Moussa, the deputy head of Hamas-affiliated change and reform parliamentary bloc, warned that the legitimate PA premier Ismail Haneyya is vulnerable to great danger in light of serious reports that US gave Israel a green light to assassinate him after they started to see him as a national, Arab and Islamic leader...

2 MB Members Arrested in Daqahlia

The Egyptian State Security Police stormed into the house of Mr. Al-Shathhat Al-Saeed Abdu, 60 years old, head of bureau of Mr. Tarek Qotb, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary bloc...

The Power of Nightmares - Part I, Part 2, Part 3

In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. ..

Gaza Stranded Pilgrims Stage Hunger Strike, Snowball Protest

Gaza Strip pilgrims stranded at the Egyptian-Palestinian borders decided to stage a hunger strike inside their buses in the Egyptian city of Al-Arish , starting from Monday, Dec, 31, 2007. ..

Several HR organizations : Repression is not the best way to solve the problems of the people of Sin

Several HR organizations demanded the Egyptian government for immediate release of the writer and blogger Musaad Suleiman Hassan, whose alias is «Musaad Abu Fagr» the activist in the movement "Wedna Ne’eish" (i.e We Wanna Live)...

8 MB s Arrested in Kafr al-Sheikh

The Egyptian state security forces have raided on Monday dawn( Dec. 31, 2007 ) houses of 8 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members in Sidi Salem centre, Kafr Al-Sheikh governorate..

Egypt arrests 8 from Muslim Brotherhood in sweep

Egyptian security forces arrested eight members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in dawn raids on their homes in the Nile Delta province of Kafr al-Sheikh on Monday, security sources and the group said..