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Relatives of MB Military Detainees Submit Memo to NCHR to Release Them

Members of more than 30 families of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders referred to the military tribunal, submitted on Friday Dec, 15th, 2007, a memo to the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), demanding immediately releasing their loved ones, referring them to natural civilian justice, ending the current freeze on their assets and reopening their closed companies...

Families of MB Military Detainees Mark 1st Anniversary with Vigil

More than 100 children and women and relatives of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders referred to the military tribunal, staged a vigil on Saturday in front of the National Council for Human Rights, protesting at maintaining the detention of their loved ones and marking the first anniversary of transferring them to the military tribunal...

CIA Destroyed Torture Tapes Despite Court Orders

The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that revealed some of its harshest interrogation tactics...

MB Military Defence Panel Starts Sunday First Pleading

The Huckstepp-based military tribunal trying 39 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders topped by eng. Khairat Al Shater the second deputy chairman of the group, starts on Sunday hearing the first pleading of the defence team...

Creative Chaos

I just saw the movie that everyone is talking about in Cairo these days: Heyya Fauda (It’s Chaos). It’s the latest by Youssef Chahine, but unlike a lot of his work lately, it’s eminently entertaining. It’s also very political...

Mashaal: Ready to Hand Palestinian Presidential Premises Only After National Accord, National Securi

Khalid Mashaal, Hamas Movement’s politburo chief, said that his ongoing visits to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Qatar are a part of a series of visits that will include other stops " to discuss the current stage and its reflections in the Palestinians and the Arab situation" aiming to lay down "a unified Palestinian strategy with a unified Arab strategy to confront dangers of Annapolis which are sought to impose a settlement which is settled for Israelis"...

MB Families File a Complaint to the NCHR

On the 1st anniversary of the notorious military tribunals, a delegation from the families of the MB court-martialed leaders will file a complaint to the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights tomorrow afternoon..

US ’will risk’ Middle East reforms

The US has said it is prepared to accept the consequences of the democratic process that it has been fostering in the Middle East...

One full Year Behind Bars

For a full year, we have been unjustly thrown behind bars. Thirty three Egyptian businessmen, scientists, university professors and professionals who have exerted their utmost effort to develop and improve their country have been sent to prison for only one charge: that they called for reform and faced tyranny and corruption and supported people’s causes. Their stances made the regime refer them to the military court. ..

One full Year Behind Bars

For a full year, we have been unjustly thrown behind bars. Thirty three Egyptian businessmen, scientists, university professors and professionals who have exerted their utmost effort to develop and improve their country have been sent to prison for only one charge: that they called for reform and faced tyranny and corruption and supported people’s causes. Their stances made the regime refer them to the military court...

3 More Deaths Raise Death Toll among Besieged Gaza Patients to 37

3 patients died on Wednesday night and Thursday at dawn from Gaza because of the ongoing siege imposed by Israeli occupation forces which denied them traveling abroad to receive required treatment. This siege has been imposed on Gaza Strip since Hamas government took over power there. ..

State Security Detains 2 Al Fayyum MBs

Egyptian state security forces raided on Thursday at dawn, Dec, 13th, 2007, two houses in the district of Sinnuris, governorate of Al Fayum Governate...

Muslim Brotherhood Condemns Algeria Explosions

Muslim Brotherhood (MB) condemned the explosions that hit the Algerian capital Algiers on Tuesday morning Dec, 11th, 2007, killing more than 50 persons and injuring more than 50 according to Algerian official figures. Dr.Mohammd Morsy expressed his condemnation in a statement issued after the attacks...

3000 Labour University Employees Sit-in, Await Dues

More than three thousand employees and worker in the Labour University in Cairo staged an open sit-in protesting at the board’s decision of suspending paying their dues...

Egyptian Security Raid MB Bookstores, Printing Offices in Monoufia

Egyptian security forces stormed on Wednesday, Dec, 12th, 2007, into bookstores and printing offices belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Monofiya. They forces seized huge amounts of books and computers inside these places...

6 Social Service Students, Families Stage Open Sit-in Before Egyptian House

Six students of the Alexandria based Social Service Institute staged along with their families and some sympathizers from the institute an open sit-in last Monday morning in front of the Egyptian People’s Assembly..

35 Candidates Compete on Judges’ Club Seats Early Jan 08

Elections on seats of Alexandria Judges Club will kick off early next month with 35 candidates compete on seats of consultants, judges, chief justices and public prosecutors...

Rights Watch Demands Egyptian Regime Stop Torturing Political Prisoners

Human Rights Watch called on the Egyptian regime to fix treatment of the State Security Service towards political detainees. The organization confirmed that there is and integrated system of torture which includes the most hideous violations against citizens including sodomizing, electric shocking in private parts in methods exercised prisons of the most authoritarian countries...

University students protest arrest of colleagues in Egypt

Thousands of university students demonstrated on Sunday at Al Azhar University here in protest against the arrest and detention of dozens of their colleagues by Egyptian security forces, the official Muslim Brotherhood website reported...

Lawyers’ Demonstration Show Solidarity with Journalists, Call for Liberation of Egyptian Minds

Tens of Muslim Brotherhood lawyers lashed out at "illegal and oppressive tortures and detentions" committed by the Egyptian regime against innocent people. They demanded releasing political detainees and called for the liberation of minds and consciences of the Egyptians so that the country can develop scientifically and economically...