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Promises of Hunting Torture Suspected Officers in Al Fayyum Victim’s Conference

"We will sue any one involved in any torture case", said Taher Abul Nasr lawyer of "Egyptians against Torture"...

Security Prevents Egyptians from Showing Solidarity with Journalists, Workers

Egyptian security forces prevented on Thursday evening a public demonstration showing solidarity with journalists facing prison sentences and striking workers at Al Mahala-based spinning and weaving factories...

Talal Salman, editor in chief of As Safir, an independent leftist newspaper, wrote on September 19:

"Never in the history of Lebanon was a president elected thanks only to pure Lebanese votes, whether these votes were controlled by political leaders or spiritual references, the most important of which is the Maronite patriarch, or even by the MPs themselves...

Experts received MB program: call for religious state, Iranian-style

On September 18, the independent Egyptian Al Masry Al Yom daily carried the following report by Shayma’ Abdul Hadi: "Political experts who received the program of the MB assured that the presence of a top scholars committee specializing in reviewing the decisions of the head of the state and the parliament was considered a step backward. ..

Security Blocks MB Bloc Iftar

apologized on behalf of the bloc for not establishing this year’s party of Iftar (breaking the fast) which was scheduled to be held on Sunday, Ramadan, 18th, due to heavy pressures exercised by security services on the administration of Egyptian Doctors Club in Giza ...

The Muslim Brotherhood Will Stand Up for All Egyptians

We understand the rules of democracy, and realize that people have the right to choose to do whatever they want, even if we view their choice as incorrect. At the end of the day, what matters should be neither the Muslim Brotherhood leaders’ opinion nor that of President Hosni Mubarak, but rather the Egyptian people’s opinion, as manifested in ballot boxes in free and fair elections — given, of course, that their decision does not undermine the basic rights or civil liberties of any gr..

Press Conference for Al Fayyum Victim’s Family on Thursday

In solidarity with the family of Al Fayyum victim Mohamed Gomaah Hassan Al Dahshouri, the bar association will hold a press conference on Thursday at 1.00PM for his family...

Int’l Observers Denied Access to MB Trial, Al Shater’s Health Deteriorates

Security services prevented both international observers Khurrum Wahid, a US lawyer specialized in terrorism affairs, and Nura Rosalie, the executive manager of the US Female Muslims Institute..

Military Tribunal Adjourns Session to Oct.1st

The Military Court trying case of engineer Khairat Al-Shater along with 39 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders was adjourned till next Monday, Oct.1st, 2007,..

State Security Assaults Al Fayyum University Students, Detains 3

Officer Marawan Ahmed Mazen, tasked with the file of university and education at the State Security Police institution, has transgressed the campus by assaulting and beat university students and detaining three others inside it...

10 Aswan MB Leaders Arrested

Security forces at the Upper Egyptian governorate of Aswan arrested on Monday at dawn 10 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members in the governorate...

2 Students Arrested After Minister of Higher Education’s Al Fayyum University Visit

Immediately after the visit of the Minister of Higher Education to Al Fayyum university, two students were arrested at the gate of university,..

Four newspaper editors sentenced to a year’s labour for libelling president and ruling party

A Cairo criminal court yesterday sentenced four newspaper editors to a year’s forced labour and the maximum possible fine of 20,000 Egyptian pounds (2,600 euros) ..

Blogging consequences

Egyptian blogger Abdel Monem Mahmoud was arrested in April 2007 for things written in his blog. Monem, for whom a campaign has been taken up at [1] is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood...

Fatah takes battle with Hamas to mosques

The Fatah-dominated security services -- whose colleagues in the Gaza Strip were decisively defeated by Hamas three months ago -- ..

EVENT: Islamist Political Participation and Democratic Development

Islamist Political Participation and Democratic Development, The Case Studies of Turkey & Morocco ..

Female Student Subpoenaed to State Security, 6 Mansoura University Students Interrogated

Mansoura state security prosecution summoned Iman Mahmoud, a student at Mansoura University, over her activities in the mosque of the Faculty of Commerce and distributing leaflets and cards welcoming students on the occasion of beginning the semester...

White House Criticizes Egypt on Rights

Earlier this month, an Egyptian court sentenced the editors of four outspoken tabloids to a year in prison for defaming Mubarak and his ruling party after they criticized senior officials in the government. One of the editors also faces charges in a separate lawsuit of spreading rumors that the 79-year-old Mubarak was in poor health. ..

Press Syndicate Holds Meeting for the American delegatation Tomorrow

Jeter said that she would attend today"s conference in order to call for the necessity of making a change in the current Egyptian governmental policies, adding that she would call for having a fair trial for everyone inside and outside Egypt. ..

MB Military Trial Adjourned till next Wednesday Sep, 26th

topped by eng. Khairat Al-Shater the MB second deputy chairman, was adjourned till next Wednesday, Sep, 26th...