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Kefaya Organizing a Demonstration on December 12 Calling for Re-Elections

Abdel Halim Qandil, coordinator of the Kefaya Movement, revealed that the movement is contacting political parties and powers to organize a huge demonstration on December 12, 2010, entitled “Void”...

Liberties Committee of the Egyptian Lawyers' Syndicate Calls for an End to Parliamentary Elections

The Liberties Committee belonging to the Lawyers' Syndicate has called for the suspension of the forthcoming election if the Higher Election Commission (HEC) refuses to implement numerous court decisions on registering some candidates that have been excluded from running...

Egyptian Government Dismisses US Concerns on Elections and Opposes Report on Religious Freedom

US Ambassador, Margaret Scobey repeated the US Department's calls for transparency during Egypt’s parliamentary elections Monday. She stressed the significance of international monitoring with international monitors...

Violent Attack by Thugs on MB Candidate

Thugs affiliated to a candidate belonging to the ruling National Democratic Party attempted to stab Dr. Mohamed Saad Katatni, head of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc during a campaigning rally late Monday...

Abu El-Fotouh: Egypt's NDP to Run Elections with Guerrilla Thinking

Dr Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh, a leading Brotherhood figure and secretary general of the Arab Doctors' Union, called on the chairman of Egypt's Higher Electoral Commission (HEC), Judge Sayyed Abdul Aziz, to refrain from announcing election results if he doubts that they may have been rigged...

Al-Arian: Brotherhood will Continue on its Way toward Free Elections Despite Government Repression

Dr Essam Al-Arian, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood Executive Bureau, has stressed that the Muslim Brotherhood is facing an unprecedented police crackdown that appears certain to weaken the political standing of the nation's largest opposition group in Sunday's parliamentary elections...

Opposition slams regime's efforts to rig election

The opposition Muslim Brotherhood accused the government on Monday of rigging Egypt's parliamentary election by stopping its candidates from campaigning and arresting nearly 250 of its supporters...

Arrests and Attacks Continue on Election Rallies in Daqahliya and Gharbeya

Security forces yesterday released Mohammed Abdul Baqi, a member of the MB parliamentary bloc for Talkha, Daqahliya, after being abducted by security forces during a rally for Muslim Brotherhood candidates in Talkha: Abdel-Mohsen Kamhawi and the group's candidate for the women's quota, Maysa El Gohary...

Thirty MB Members Summoned and Arrested, Five Houses Raided and One Abduction in Dakahlia

State security forces issued a decision to quickly arrest and bring to trial 30 more MB supporters who were accompanying candidates as they made their rounds in Talkha and included them in a court case despite the fact that most of them did not participate in the rally...

Forces attempt to thwart MB's MP open ended sit –in

Security officials called on the protesting MB candidates to end their sit in parliament urging them to leave the premises...

Knesset to vote on bill outlawing Palestinians from living in '48-occupied land

-- The Israeli Knesset will vote Sunday on a racist bill outlawing Palestinians from residing in 1948-occupied Palestinian territories with a majorly Jewish population...

Jewish settlers set fire to girls school while expanding Rahalim settlement

As Jewish settlers spent Sunday morning digging up hundreds of dunums of land in the south Nablus region of Sawiya to expand the Rahalim settlement, Nablus lawmaker Yasser Mansur warned that the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank was on the rise...

Palestinian farmer wounded in explosion of IOF ordnance

A Palestinian farmer was wounded on Sunday when Israeli army ordnance exploded near him in his farm east of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, medical sources reported...

Israel approves 30M USD budget to Judaize Buraq Square

The Israeli government approved Sunday a NIS 85 million ($30M) plan to Judaize the Buraq Square, known by Jews as the Wailing Wall, around the Aqsa Mosque...

Mubarak Denies Tipping Bush on Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction

Egypt rebuffed recent allegations by former US President George Bush who maintained that the Egyptian president had encouraged him to invade Iraq in 2003 on the grounds that it possessed weapons of mass destruction...

Eleven MB Houses Stormed and Five Leaders Arrested in the Lead Up to Egypt's Polls

Egyptian security forces stormed the houses of 11 Muslim Brotherhood leaders at dawn in the sea port city of Alexandria the second largest city in Egypt...

MB Offshoot in Jordan Calls for National Salvation Government

The Islamic Action Front in Jordan called for the launching of a 'national salvation government' in an effort to grasp both the political and social problems facing the country...

Muslim Brotherhood's Statement on Rigging of Parliamentary Election

Respectable democratic systems confident of their legitimacy and popularity compete fairly with different political powers to gain the confidence of the public and the popular will of the people, and to implement the result of transparent and fair elections, taking into account people's will and choices...

Five Arrested and Four Injured in New Security Attacks against MB in Kafr El-Sheikh

Security forces launched campaigns on Sunday against a rally for Muslim Brotherhood candidates in Kafr El-Sheikh consistency, Abdullah Mesbah and the group's candidate for the women's quota, Fatima Mousa...

1206 MB arrests including 7 women in run up to polls

Top Muslim Brotherhood lawyer Abdel Monem Abdel-Maqsoud, stressed that the current clampdown against the group's candidates and their supporters, has noticeably increased during the past few days with a total of 1206 detainees since the group's announcement of participating in the elections...