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111 Bahraini candidates including 11 women have submitted their applications to stand for the upcoming parliamentary election in Bahrain. Centers accepting candidates’s requests to run for the elections opened on Saturday October 14,2006, and will remain opened for three days. On the other hand, candidacy for municipal election will begin on Friday and continues until October 24th.

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In line with the government policy of imposing more exceptional and freedom restricting laws, the Ministry of Wakf (endowment) recently presented a bill banning gatherings and demonstrations inside mosques courtyards, with a three -month imprisonment and LE 500 in financial punishment for anyone who is involved in such acts.

  The bill was referred to the President , with a me..

Leaders of organizations, party chairmen and prominent figures in the Muslim world, topped by the Muslim Brotherhood, released a statement on October 14, 2006, rejecting pressure exerted by the quartet commission, the broker in the Middle East peace process, on the Hamas -led government since it was formed on March 29, 2006.

The undersigned of this statement included MB Chairman Mr. Moh..

In continuation of its flagrant violation of human rights and inhuman treatment of political prisoners in Egypt, the Al Marg Prison authorities deprived the family of an MB detainee, by name of Maher el Tarky, of seeing their breadwinner who is, along with other political prisoners, placed in solitary confinement for a long time without any of them seeing light; some of them haven’t seen light for about 15 years.

The NYU School of Law will hold an open forum on the Muslim Brotherhood on October 19, 2006. This event will analyze the future role the Muslim Brotherhood will play in Middle Eastern Politics. Topics covered will include: How would the Muslim Brotherhood act if they made an electoral breakthrough in a Middle Eastern country? Would an empower..

About 1500 Muslim Brotherhood workers on Thursday October 19,2006, assembled in front of the Labors’ Union premises in Cairo to protest the government suppressive measures against the Muslim Brotherhood candidates who will stand for the Labors’ Union election begining of November.

Since he became leader of the Islamic Action Front Party (IAFP), less than a year ago, the relation between the party and the Jordanian regime snowballed so much, starting from Hamas’ weapons smuggling case, the issue of the society of the Islamic center and finally- and it seems that it is not the last- the case of the two MPs Mohammed Abu Fares and Ali Abu Sukkar...

Scores of Egyptian journalists on Monday October 16, 2006, demonstrated in protest of closure of their newspaper Afaq Arabeya, a pro Muslim Brotherhood which is also one of Al Ahrar party press publications. In front of the Cairo- based Journalists Union premises, the journalists stood to sell greengroceries, bread and soft drinks as a message to the government that they are jobless now and&nbs..

Israeli terrorist troops on Monday killed seven members of one Palestinian family in northern Gaza Strip on the first day of Eid Al-Fitr amidst world silence.

Local sources in Beit Hanun to the north of the Strip said that an IOF unit disguised in Palestinian attire and mounting a car with Palestinian registration plates ambushed Atta Al-Shinbari, the local commander of the Nasser Salah..

Spokesman of the Parliamentary Bloc Dr. Hamdy Hassan criticized the Parliament for its failure to bring to justice those implicated in the case of Bani Mazar massacre, now that the Egyptian judiciary has confirmed tortures and hair raising acts perpetrated by police agencies to coerce a citizen to confess crimes he didn’t commit.

 The MB spokesman quoted part of the court reports i..

A scientific conference titled ”Islamists and Democracy” is to be held in London November 2-5 under the auspices of Democratic Studies Center affiliated to Westminster University.

Spokesman of the PA government Dr. Ghazi Hamad has accused Javier Solana, the coordinator of EU foreign policy, of displaying the EU bias against the Palestinian people by meeting "extremist" Israeli MP Avigdor Lieberman, and avoiding PA cabinet members.

In a statement he issued Saturday, Hamad said, "Lieberman is an Israeli fanatic leader known for his extremist stands against Arabs, an..

In continuation of crackdowns launched against the Muslim Brotherhood to prevent its candidates from standing for the Workers’ Union election, the security authorities in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Assiut held three MB candidates, withdrawing the papers of one of them and denying them access to the Assiut Directorate of Manpower and Immigration to complete his election credentials.

During his meeting with members of the National Party today October 30, 2006, President Mubarak announced his approval of amendments of article 76 of the Constitution in the coming parliament term of session , but he declined to clarify the nature of this amendment. It is noted that the article is related to the president’s authority which raised a lot of hue and cry within the Egypti..

Toll of Palestinian fatalities has risen to 22 and more than 120 others were wounded (many critically) on Thursday as a result of the brutal IOF troops’ incursion into the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanun that started Wednesday.

A 75-year-old Palestinian man was directly hit Thursday morning with Israeli sniper bullets while waiting outside his house in the city that instantly..

First of all I want to thank Canadian Journalists for Free __Expression for choosing me for this award which encourages me to continue what I began in Egypt. For the last eight years as a journalist I have covered governmental corruption in a lot of areas in Egypt and uncovered scandals of the Ministry of Interior who torture and murder innocent people in police stations and state security inve..

Three more Palestinian have fallen martyrs in Gaza and Bethlehem cities raising toll of Palestinian fatalities to 43, including children and women, since the start of the IOF troops aggression on Beit Hanun city Wednesday.

Car of Palestinian fighter Mohammed Farouk Al-Borno, 32, one of the leaders in the military manufacturing unit in the Qassam Brigades, armed wing of Hamas, was hit wit..