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European Parliament: AHRLA Closed Due to Revealing Official Involvement in Torturing

The Foreign Affairs Committee at the European Parliament (EP) sent a letter to the Egyptian ambassador to Belgium Dr. Mahmoud Karem in which it voiced its concern over the disturbing information from international organizations about the situation of Association for Human Rights Legal Aid (AHRLA)...

MB Military Trial Adjourned till Wed. Dec, 26th

he Egyptian Military Tribunal adjourned till Wednesday, Dec, 26th, 2007, its trial against forty Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders, topped by Khairat Al-Shater the second deputy chairman of the group and Mohamed Ali Beshr, a member of its Executive Bureau...

Saudi Authorities Still Detain Blogger Fouad Al Farhan

Saudi authorities detained, two weeks ago, blogger Fouad Al Farhan without declaring reasons for- or place of- this detention. Some observers voice concerns that that he may be facing pressures because of his frank support to Saudi reformists and his demands for supporting reform as a key factor for countering terrorism . ..

Release40.com Calls for Releasing MB Military Trial Detainees

www.ikhwan.net/vb, a Muslim Brotherhood (MB) website, launched an international campaign on the web calling for releasing MB leaders transferred to the military tribunal, topped Mohamed Khairat Al Shater, the second deputy chairman of the group and Mohamed Ali Beshr, a member of the MB Executive Office..

11 MB Students at Al Fayyum University Dismissed

Only days before the start of the first semester exams, Dr. Ragaa Ahmed Eid, the dean of the Faculty of Education in Al Fayyum university, dismissed eleven Muslim Brotherhood students on charge of preparing and distributing exam leaflets on students...

Arab Rights Groups Denounce Prolonging Bisharat’s Detention

Many Arab human rights organizations denounced prolonging the administrative detention of Mohammed Mustafa Bisharat, the director of the Nablus-based Nafha Society for the Defense of Prisoners’ Rights, for more four months..

Health of Hassan Zalat Deteriorates after Military Court Denies him Heart Surgery

Call of Hassan Zalat, a Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leader referred to the Egyptian military tribunal, is falling on deaf ears as he is denied a sufficient medical care. Zalat’s health condition requires a special attention...

MB Sisters’ View towards Reform in Egypt

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) views the woman as a key factor in the all-out reform process sought by the group. The woman is a work partner and a life partner. Due to this position, women’s view towards reform in Egypt must be sought in Egypt . ..

Egypt: Women of the Muslim Brotherhood rebel

Women are raising their voices for the first time in the history of one of the most important political movements in the Islamic world, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood...

New publications on Egypt include

Human Rights Watch’s latest report, “Anatomy of a State Security Case: The ‘Victorious Sect’ Arrests,” demonstrates how state security investigations use torture and arbitrary detention to force confessions (December 11, 2007). Click here for Arabic...

Call for probe into disturbing circumstances of video reporter’s death

Reporters Without Borders called today on the Iraqi authorities to investigate the disturbing circumstances in which Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi , a correspondent of the news website Alive in Baghdad (http://aliveinbaghdad.org/), was killed on 14 December...

Syria: first lawsuit against withholding a website postponed

Administrative Judiciary Court in Damascus decided to postpone the lawsuit filed by administrators of the website "http://www.alnazaha.org" against Syrian Minister of Communications and Technical "Amr Salem," to bound him to declare the reasons for withholding the site & its cancellation to the hearing of February 5 2008, after the Syrian minister admitted that the decision to withhold the site has come "at the direction of the Security Branch No. 225 of the military intelligence in Sy..

The religious factor in the American presidential race, The will of the Lord

The American presidential race for year 2008 is like no other seriously , till now each of the two parties has not chosen yet its final candidates so we are watching a huge war between all of them. ..

We corrupt in Paris. We murder in Gaza

Lebanon entered the stage of the 9th delay of the presidential elections after the failure of the parliament to modify the constitution. The country enters a new stage of waiting that the opinions differ on its scope...

Snitch on your servants!

Security Directions for the Safety and Security of Residents in the District of Zamalek..

Islamist Pragmatists Ripe for Engagement?

Abdel-Moneim Abul-Futuh, "one of the most dynamic and articulate spokesmen of the second-generation reformist faction", was among those pragmatists who stayed when the old guard’s traditionalism forced many second-generation reformers to leave the Brotherhood and form the al-Wasat or Center Party in 1995. Although the reformers are a distinct minority in the leadership and the base membership, Futuh and his allies have secured important positions from which they articulate some distinc..

Regression Prompts Debate on Brotherhood’s Trajectory

The disputes over the platform highlight the limits to the movement’s political evolution and the dominant influence of conservative salafist forces. Key figures in the Brotherhood have recently portrayed it as a reformist movement, adopting a more democratic discourse, while advocates for engagement highlighted the positions of relatively moderate "Second Generation" pragmatists, like Abdel-Moneim Abul-Futuh..

YEARENDER: In Egypt, unrest will spill over into 2008 - corrected

In the last few months of 2007, Egypt has experienced a series of massive workers strikes, motivated by none other than poor standards of living and lack of privileges, foreboding the beginning of a possible "uprising" by Egypt’s poor. But an angry struggle against deteriorating economic conditions is not the only source of concern for many Egyptian analysts. "Political oppression" is another and as the year ends, pro-democracy activists say that they are as worried as ever about Egypt..

Egypt’s Brotherhood: Hard Line Platform Belies Reformist Veneer

A controversial draft platform from Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is prompting a rethink amongst advocates of engaging the Islamist movement. Women and non-Muslims would be barred from becoming president and a Majlis Ulama, akin to Iran’s Council of Guardians, would have the final say on legislation, according to the draft. The platform proposes that "every article" of Egypt’s constitution be revised to replace civil law with sharia in "material, spiritual, financial, economic, psychologi..

Torture in Egypt Culprits without punishment

Torture in Egypt is no ordinary crime committed by policemen in police stations and prisons. Rather, in the last few years torture has become a practice which must be confronted in order to find effective and rapid solutions to it. It has become a systematic, deliberate and widespread policy implemented by police during interrogations with individuals charged with, or suspected of, offences during the first stages of inquiries in police stations...