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Egypt Letter urges President Mubarak to intercede in jailed Internet user’s case

Reporters Without Borders, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) sent a joint letter to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on 24 December...

Appeals Submitted to Courts by Candidates' Lawyers Expose Rigged Parliament

Jurists demanded the invalidity of the current elected parliament, which was founded on violation of court orders amid the reluctance of the Higher Election Commission (HEC) to implement decisions to suspend the announcement of voting results in more than 120 districts as long as the legal quorum stipulated by the Constitution on the Parliament has not yet been completed...

Alliance for AEA, Europeans Demand to Change Article 76 and to Nominate a Single Candidate for Presidency

Peaceful democratic transition in Egypt, the presidential elections and the unity of opposition forces were among issues discussed at a conference devoted to it and organized recently in the Egyptian Wafd Party headquarters by a number of party leaders in association with the Alliance of expatriate Egyptians in Europe and Egyptian Americans (AEA)...

Parliamentary Correspondent Angered by Ban to Attend Committee Meeting

A decision to ban parliament’s correspondent from attending a committee meeting triggered angry responses...

El-Baradei’s Support Committee Distributes Pamphlets Reviving Call for Change

Presidential candidate, Dr. Mohamed El-Baradei’s support committee distributed pamphlets in Alexandria urging people to support the call for reform and change and the end of violence and violations in police stations...

Mubarak’s Ticking Bomb

The Egyptian regime is yet to learn that democracy means more than just going through the motions...

Egyptian Opposition Divided?

An article in the Guardian cites that the final results of the recent Egyptian parliamentary ballots guarantee five years of political insignificance for the institutional opposition...

Mousa: I have not decided on presidency nomination as yet

Secretary General for the Arab League Amr Mousa asserted that to date he has not determined his intentions concerning his candidacy for the presidential bid scheduled for 2011in Egypt...

Nassar Human Rights Center: Alexandria, Capital of Arab Torture in 2010

Nassar Human Rights center named Alexandria the "Capital of Arab Torture in 2010" after the center monitored large numbers of torture cases that had not been preceded by any of the Arab or Egyptian governorates...

Gamal Mubarak: NDP's Annual Conference Will not Choose Presidential Nominee

Assistant Secretary General and the Chairman of the Policies Committee at the National Democratic Party, Gamal Mubarak, said that the National Democratic Party’s nominee for the September 2011 presidential election will not be selected during its current annual conference...

Administrative Court Looks into Annulling Rigged Parliament

The Supreme Administrative Court will examine on Tuesday a lawsuit filed by the former opposition and Muslim Brotherhood MPs and candidates in the recent parliamentary elections, and will appeal against the rigged parliament result...

Former MB MP: Arbitrary Arrests against Brothers Doomed to Failure

Dr. Farid Ismail, former member of the MB Parliamentary bloc, has emphasized that the arbitrary detention pursued by the government of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) against the Brotherhood are doomed to failure...

15 day detention order to 6 MB leaders

In an evident drawback from reform Supreme State Security, late Monday decided to issue a 15 day detention order to the 6 MB members who were arrested in the Egyptian governorate of Sharqeya...

Mubarak Vows to Combat Corruption and Targets 8% Growth Rate

According to Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak the country’s growth rate is to rise to 8 per cent over the next five years...

Egypt’s Waning Power

Egyptians are struggling to make ends meet, and Egypt can no longer boast of being the foremost political, economic and cultural country in the Middle East...

A Conversation with Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat- In an extensive interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi revealed that he turned down the post of "Muslim Brotherhood guide" on numerous occasions, preferring to remain a guide for the nation. Al-Qaradawi also revealed that he believes that the traditional Salafi trend has become divided into several schools of thought, some of which are very close to the Muslim Brotherhood Group...

El-Erian Lashes Out at NDP's Secretary Labelling his Speech as Worthless

Dr. Essam El-Erian, the Brotherhood's media spokesman and member of the Executive Bureau, described statements made by Ahmed Ezz, the NDP's Secretary for Organisational Affairs, during the seventh annual conference of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) on the Muslim Brotherhood, as "insignificant"...

Nine Leading MB Members Arrested in Two Days

Egypt’s largest and strongest opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, have asserted that nine members of the group have been arrested after having their houses raided including a member of the Executive Bureau...

MB Sites Successful in Forwarding Constructive Arguments

Despite the sham results witnessed in Egypt this year during both the upper and lower house elections, Egypt’s strongest political opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood, proves that it has not limited its efforts to the chamber or under the dome but will continue on the streets and through it effective websites...

Egypt: 42% of Population Living under Poverty Line

According to an official report, the number of Egyptians living below the poverty line in all governorates has risen from 55, 40 per cent in 2004/05 to 69, 41 per cent, adding that the lower poverty line hit a steady increase during 2007 and 2010...