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Sawaseya Centre For Human Rights and Prevention of Discrimination on October 22, 2006, released a statement in which it condemned the security crackdowns on the candidates of the Labors’ Union with the aim to block them from standing for the Union elections slated early in November of this year.

Yesterday Monday October 23, 2006, the security authorities of Tahta, a town in southern Governorate of Sohag, arrested 6 of Muslim Brotherhood members while they were hanging signs carrying the name of MB member of Parliament Mohammed Yousuf congratulating the citizens in his constituency of the Eid el Fitr, a feast that marks  the end of Ramadan.

 The Muslim Brotherhood on October 28, 2006, will hold a press conference at the Lawyers’ Syndicate to voice their position toward the Labor Union election slated for the first week of November next, which will be held at three phases in line with the recent parliamentary election last year.

Sawaseya Center for Human Rights and Prevention of Discrimination released a statement on October 29, 2006, condemning the government ‘s policy which discriminates among ruling party candidates and contestants from other parties or groups.

The Egyptian state – owned factories witnessed security harassments against the Muslim Brotherhood candidates to scare them into renouncing their candidacy to the Workers’ Union election slated early November of this year.

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary Bloc called on the government to renounce the conditions of presidential election included in article 76 of Constitution, depicting them as unachievable ones.

The Muslim Brotherhood students in Cairo university called on the administration to honor its pledge on free and fair election, warning of being struck off from the election lists which are to be announced today November 1, 2006.

Six students at the Faculty of Science, headed for the office of Students Affairs to apply for to draw their candidacy papers, but they were surprised to know that they were expelled from the faculty without prior notification.

The Supreme State Security Prosecution on November1, 2006, extended the detention of 26 Muslim Brotherhood members and released 12 others.

The list of candidates certified to run in the elections should have been announced by 3pm. As of the time of writing, it hasn’t...

A large number of state security police on Sunday November 5, 2006, stormed and besieged homes of Muslim Brotherhood students from Helwan University, south of Cairo, and detained 30 of them while homes of others are still besieged by central security forces which turned the streets into a battle field in hot pursuit of other MB students who were not in their homes at the time.

The Egyptian security forces on November 7,2006, detained two candidates of the Trade Union elections while they were in front of the Ministry of Manpowe. The two were taken to an undisclosed location