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IOA using prisoners as medical guinea pigs

Former prisoner and expert on prisoners' affairs Abdulnasser Farwana has said that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) was performing more than 5,000 experimental drug tests on Palestinian prisoners per annum...

Gaza bakeries to close down next week

Palestinian officials warned on Monday of complete stoppage of bakeries in the Gaza Strip by next week after wheat supplied through Israeli-controlled commercial crossings ran out of stock...

Politicians: Vote-Rigging Put an End to Peaceful Change

Ikhwanweb interviewed a number of intellectuals and political analysts about what happened in the controversial parliamentary election and its impact on efforts to make the desired change and prevent hereditary rule in Egypt...

Monitors Call on Mubarak to Dissolve Parliament after Reports of Mass Rigging

Amid reports of violence and fraud, numerous organizations including the Egyptian Human Rights and Election Monitoring Groups did their best to record any violations and irregularities during Egypt's round two of voting held on Sunday...

For the First Time El-Baradei Harrassed at Cairo Airport

Egypt's former UN nuclear watchdog, Chief Mohamed El-Baradei was subject to harrassment by security officers at Cairo Airport as soon as he arrived yesterday. He was stopped by officials while his name was being checked in the wanted person’s list...

Egypt's Elections Rigged Before, During and After

A sweeping victory if that’s what one can label Egypt’s ruling NDP’s rigged win was announced by the Higher Election Commission today where they confirmed they secured an 83% majority of the votes of the 518 seats at stake- an embarrassing 96% will be announced if the elected independents decide to re-enrol with the NDP..

Al-Beltagy to Al-Alam: I Urge President Mubarak to Intervene For Re-elections

Dr. Mohamed Al-Beltagy, assistant secretary general of the former Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentary bloc, called on President Mubarak to intervene with a presidential decree to hold re-elections after the heinous violations and frauds it included...

Background Report on Egyptian Civil Society Election Monitoring in Upcoming Elections

The Egyptian government has steadfastly refused to grant international election monitors access to monitor parliamentary elections this week. Senior Egyptian officials have rebuffed repeated requests from US government officials, claiming that Egyptian civil society has the capacity to monitor its own conduct...

A just peace, not religion is the solution in the Middle East

Uri Avnery argues that only Palestinian statehood and a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict offer a chance to stem the tide of religious fundamentalism that is filling in the gap left by the failure of secular Arab nationalism and compounded by the utter uselessness and treachery of Arab rulers...

Election Victory with No Glory

It comes as no surprise that Mubarak’s NDP claims it will win unchallenged after the two largest opposition groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood with its extensive following, boycotted a contest they insist was rigged...

Mona Ashour: State Security Officers Threatened my Father to Arrest 300 MB Members if He Boycotted Sunday's Runoffs

Eldest daughter of MB MP, Majdi Ashour, said she is scared to be harassed by security forces engaged in different types of pressure...

State Security Officers Threaten family of former MB candidate

Eldest daughter of MB MP, Magdi Ashour, said she is scared to be harassed by security forces engaged in different types of pressure...

Rally Organized by Women Dressed in Black Lost in Women's Quota

Eight female losing candidates in the first round of voting for the women's quota marched up Luxor's streets dressed in black to protest ...

PA transfers six hunger strikers from Jericho solitary jail to other prisons

The families of the six Palestinian detainees who went on hunger strike in Jericho prison said the Palestinian authority (PA) and its security militias transferred their isolated sons from this jail to other prisons in different West Bank areas after their health started to deteriorate very badly...

B'Tselem: Jerusalemite children tortured by Israeli interrogators

The Israeli information center for human rights in the occupied territories B'Tselem said in a report that Palestinian children in Silwan town, occupied Jerusalem, were severely tortured at the hands of Israeli interrogators...

Haneyya: The issue of prisoners will always be on the top of our priorities

Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya stated that his government will never relinquish the issue of Palestinian prisoners that will always remain on the top of its priorities...

NAC Studied the Formation of a Parallel Parliament

The National Association for Change (NAC), is studying the idea of forming a parallel parliament of the political powers and the opposition’s prominent figures...

Egypt’s NDP secures well deserved sleight of hand title during round two of poll

After round two of Egypt’s controversial parliamentary elections the ruling National Democratic Party will undoubtedly emerge with all but a handful of the seats after the Muslim Brotherhood its strongest opposition and the Wafd Party pulled out after alleging widespread rigging and intimidation...

Youm7 Takes Back Its False News and Confirms Hazem Farouk Will Not Enter the Run-off Sunday

Youm7.com noted that Hazem Farouk from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentary bloc withdrew from the runoff...

International Conference to Discuss Violations of Egypt's Poll

The Independent Committee for Elections Monitoring has organized an international press conference on Tuesday December 7, at the Ibn Khaldun Center to discuss Egypt’s 2010 parliamentary poll and the deterioration of democracy...