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15 Sharqiya, 7 Dakahlia MBs Arrested

State security forces raided on Tuesday dawn houses of and arrested 15 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in the Egyptian northern governorate of Sharqiya, to continue the ongoing campaign against the moderate group nationwide...

Al Shater’s Military Trial Adjourned till Thursday

The Military Tribunal trying 40 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders adjourned its Tuesday 7-hour session to Thursday, Nov, 22nd, to raise to 35 the number of sessions of this marathon trial...

The so-called "war on terror"

Current approaches to the "war on terror" raise many questions on a number of fronts. Most importantly, there has been a tendency to see terrorism as essentially a military or security threat requiring, primarily,..

MB Bloc Calls for Activating Society’s Role to Stop Torture

The Muslim Brotherhood’s (MB ) parliamentary bloc in the People’s Assembly demanded Speaker Dr. Fathi Sorour to task the Human Rights Committee with holding meetings to survey and discuss the violations..

Dakahlia Secondary School Teacher Arrested

Security forces in Dakahlia arrested Abdul Fattah Mohamed Abdul Maqsoud, 44 years, on Monday at noon from the street in the city of Al Senbelawin...

Rights Report: 35000 Workers Dismissed, 36 Sit-ins and Demonstrations, 10 killed last October

A Human rights report issued by Al-Ard (Earth) Human Rights Centre confirmed that 35 thousand workers were dismissed last month and ten sit-ins and demonstrations were staged and 10 workers died ...

Business Mogul Abd Al-Rahman Saudi beleaguered by Diseases in Prison

In a recurrent scene in the military tribunal facing Muslim Brotherhood leaders, several detainees have skipped the sessions due to aggravating diseases in President Mubarak’s prisons..

2000 Journalists Demand Military Detainee Ahmed Ezzuddin Released

Makram Mohamed Ahmed, the new chairman of the press syndicate, called for immediately releasing fell .. ..

Burj Al-Arab Prison MB Detainees on Strike

A group of Muslim Brotherhood members detained in Burj Al-Arab prison declared staging an open strike protesting at the unjustified and irresponsible measure committed on Wednesday dawn..

Habib on MB Party Program, Dialogue with West

-Muslim Brotherhood’s administrative offices discussed the party program. - Issue of non-Muslims, women running for presidency a juristic option...

Al Shater’s Trial Session Adjourned till Next Tuesday, Wife to ICU

The Military tribunal adjourned till next Tuesday, Nov,20th, its session in the trial against forty Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders...

Egyptian police order 22 Muslim Brotherhood members to be released

Egyptian police have ordered the release of 22 members of the country’s most powerful opposition group,..

POMED Notes: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Party Platform

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Elliot School for International Affairs hosted an event on Thursday evening, focusing on the controversial draft party platform released by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood this fall. Diane Singerman of AU moderated a discussion featuring CEIP’s Amr Hamzaway, IMES’ Nathan Brown, and GWU’s Marc Lynch. For POMED’s notes on the event, and the lively Q & A session, click here...

Young Brothers in Cyberspace

In September 2007, the Society of Muslim Brothers, Egypt’s largest organized political force, released a draft political party platform to a select group of around 50 Egyptian intellectuals. The response was scathing. Planks such as those advocating formation of a “higher council” of religious scholars with what looked like a legislative role and a ban on a female or Christian head of state triggered an avalanche of complaint from friend and foe alike. For the Brothers’ enemies, the dr..

MERIP 245: Politics of Youth

Both my and Ted’s articles are available online for free. I’m glad that it will therefore reach a wider audience, but there’s also a more serious issue there. MERIP, for decades one of the single best sources for quality analysis of the Middle East, has fallen on even tougher financial times than usual, as post-9/11 foundation interest has begun to dry up. They’re facing a $60,000 shortfall, which in some political quarters would be the bar tab for a weekend conference but in the non..

Officer, 3 Detectives Slap Student on Nape to Paralysis

Again- Days after Ahmed Sayed Saber who was tortured inside Umraniya police station died in Al-Haram hospital- Abu Al-Numrus police station witnessed another stunning torture inciden..

Karim Amer Tortured in Borg Alarab prison Demands to the Prosecutor-General to investigate the issue

The Arabic Network for Human Rights information and Hisham Mubarak Centre for Law sent a communiqué to the Egyptian Prosecutor-General ..

2 Egyptian police officers under investigation for allegedly ordering 2 teens raped

Two police officers are under investigation after two teenagers alleged that the officers ordered other prisoners to rape them at a police station, prosecution officials said Wednesday..

Ajami’s Voice

President Bush has an opportunity, following the departure of Karen Hughes as under secretary of state for public diplomacy, to open a new kind of demarche to the Arab world almost as important, in its own way..

Zoellick: Egypt To Receive $2 Billion From World Bank

Egypt’s cooperation program with the World Bank has allowed the country to benefit from $2 billion from which it has so far received $1.2 billion, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Thursday..