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Al-Erian: Muslim Brotherhood Continues Ideological Reviews

Essam Al Erian, a top leader and chairman of the political bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, stressed that the moderate group is carrying out from time to time reviews to its ideologies when it is necessary...

Shaath Visits MB Cairo Headquarter, Welcomes Fatah-Hamas Mediation

Dr. Nabil Shaath, the Palestinian President’s representative in Cairo, visited the Executive Bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood group where he met Dr. Mohamed Habib, the first deputy chairman of the group, Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat, the Secretary-General of the group and Executive Bureau members Dr. Mohamed Morsi, and Dr. Mahmoud Hussein, in addition to Dr. Saad Al Katatni, chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood bloc in the Egyptian parliamen..

Aboutrika Punished For "Sympathize With Gaza" Shirt, Double Standards?

The events in Gaza Strip echoed in the soccer fields in Ghana which hosts the 2008 African Cup of Nations tournament when Egyptian player Mohamed Aboutrika wore an under shirt with "sympathize with Gaza" written on the front in arabic and English ..

Police Prevents Demonstration By MPs To End Gaza Siege

Egyptian security forces barred a march scheduled to be carried out by Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and independent members of parliament from the People’s Assembly to the Arab League to exercise pressure on Arab rulers to intervene in order to end the blockade imposed on Gaza Strip...

Syrian Human Rights Committee reports “Accelerated Deterioration” of human rights in Syria

In its seventh annual report, the Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) have monitored the accelerated deterioration of the status of human rights in Syria on all levels...

Human rights center report: Torture in Egypt is a policy

Nadeem Center for Psychological Therapy and Rehabilitation of the Victims of Violence issued its third report titled "Torture in Egypt: a State Policy" in which the center dealt with the organized torture and violence committed by the police between 2003 and 2006...

Al Qaradawi : East-West Integration A Fact Highlighted by Islam

Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR), and the president of the International Association of Muslim Scholars, confirmed that the message of Islam is universal and pointed out that Islam’s cultural message is directed to all mankind. He also pointed out that Muslims don’t suffer from the complex of separating between the East and the West. Islamic belief states that both the East and the West are a part of the kingdom of God, Glory be to H..

First European Islamic Charter to Back Tolerance, Fight Violence Kicks off

More than 400 Islamic organizations from all over Europe issued in a conference held in the Belgian capital Brussels on Thursday a unified charter aiming to bolster values of tolerance and assimilation into the European society...

Security forces prevent a protest in solidarity with Gaza pilgrims

The Egyptian security forces have prevented a protest organized by the National Committee for the defense of prisoners of conscience and freedoms which was expected to be staged today..

Citizen Dies of Torture in Syrian Prison, Another Jailed

A Syrian citizen died of torture inside a Syrian prison, the Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) said in a statement...

IUMS Denounces Bombings in Algeria , Lebanon and Iraq , Sees them Unholy War

he International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) denounced crimes that happened in the first two weeks of December in Algeria , Iraq and Lebanon , leaving dozens of civilian deaths. The IUMS’s statement saw these crimes as "corruption, not jihad (a holy war)." The IUMS- headed by Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi- saw in a statement issued on Thursday Dec, 13th, 2007, that " these hideous massacres whose committers are criminals, can never been considered jihad."..

Driver dies after Egyptian Policemen beat him

Driver Alaa Sabri Ezz Al-Regal died affected by a severe bleeding in the brain early Tuesday morning Dec, 25th, 200 after being beaten by traffic police officers in As Salihiyah region, Sharqiya Governorate in the Delta of Egypt...

MB Military Trial’s Ragaae Atiya Calls It Quits

In a dramatic fallout of the military tribunal against forty Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders, famous lawyer Ragaae Atiya declared on Sunday Dec, 23rd, 2007, withdrawing from the defence team of the MB leaders. Ragaae Atiya..

Real Estate Tax Workers Sit-in in 2nd Week, Falls in Egyptian Gov’t Deaf Ear

More than 10000 Egyptian real-estate taxmen have continued their sit-in front of the building of the Egyptian Cabinet for the second week in a row, while the Egyptian government did not show any indication or readiness to meet their demands of making them equal their colleagues in the Tax Department in the Ministry of Finance and including to the Ministry of Finance and giving them similar salaries. On Monday, Dec, 10th, 2007, a big number of families of strikers flocked to the pla..

They said about military trials

A year ago, on December 14, 2006, State Security have arrested many Muslim Brotherhood members in a predawn raid without any justified reason. Their trial before a military court began on April 26, 2007 at a base outside Cairo...

Military Tribunals & Status of Human Rights In Egypt

On February 11, 2007, a number of human rights organizations expressed their complete rejection to referring Khairat Al Shater and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders to the military courts and considered this as a serious violation to the right of having a fair trial which is guaranteed by the constitution and international human rights covenants...

Al Shater Cleared of Quran Translation Case, Sill Jailed Pending Military Case

Sayeda Zeinab prosecution acquitted Mohamed Khairat Al Shater, the second deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, in the case of the Quran translation case. Al Shater appeared before the prosecution on Monday morning over complaint no 508 of the year 2007 Sayeda Zeinab issued by the Artistic Classification Police that alleged that Al Shater is the manager of the Islamic publishing house and that he violated the conditions of the license issued by the Islamic Research Institute regar..

Al- Hashemi: Current Constitution Must Be Amended, Iraq Need New Reconciliation for All

Iraqi vice-president, Tarek Al Hashemi, declared in a statement to Ikhwanweb that he insists on demands of amending the current constitution that led to sharp divisions among Iraqi people, according to him...

Interview with Mohamed Morsi , MB Executive Office Member

When the initial draft of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Party program which was recently offered to more than fifty intellectuals and politicians in Egypt, there has been so much talk around the vision presented by the moderate group, triggering many debates in the Egyptian street. To make the picture cleared, Ikhwanweb holds an interview Dr. Mohamed Morsi, a member of the MB Executive Office to show the group’s ideas and views during the coming period...

Case of Al-Jazeera’s Howaida Taha Adjourned till Jan, 14th

Heliopolis Court of Appeals , Cairo , adjourned till Jan, 14th, 2008, hearing the lawsuit against Howaida Taha, a journalist in Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel, on charge of shooting videotapes about torture incidents inside Egyptian police stations...