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Egyptian security forces continue its repressive attacks against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group and MB candidates running for the Shura Council elections. The State Security Police forces raided on Thursday at May, 31, 2007, at 01.30AM CLT the house of Dr. Ali Battikh, the media spokesman of the two MB Shura candidates in Giza.
 
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Egyptian security forces still continue its fierce crackdown against supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood candidates running for the Shura Council midterm elections. A state security force seized on Friday at 10.30 a minibus following the Muslim Brotherhood candidate for Mit Ghamr Dr. Khaled Al Dib from the village of Abou Nabhan, Kafr Serenga and neighboring villages.
 
The security..

Egyptian security force carried out on Saturday dawn, June, 2, 2007, huge sweeps of arrests in many villages of the district of Quasna, including Mastay, Shubra Bakhoum and Shubra Qubala in the governorate of Monoufia. The force raided houses of many supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood candidate for the Shura Council midterm elections, Salah Samri. Some weren’t found in their houses during the..

The Egyptian regime has maintained its series of security repression. A security force, authorized by the departments of subsidies, power and state security, raided many shops belonging to supporters of  Othman Diab, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate running for the Shura Council midterm elections. Streets of Al-Sufi district, Bandar Al Fayyum and district of Etsa were dotted with military ..

Signaling the Egyptian regime’s ill intention of passing unjust sentences against Muslim Brotherhood leaders, the Egyptian security forces denied the media and human rights groups, several foriegn lawyers an access to the military court session today. A delegation from Amnesty International, in addition to foreign members of the defence team including former US Attorney General Ramsey Clar..

State Security Police forces arrested on Sunday at dawn, June 3, 2007, Mohamed Shaaban Eissa, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidate for constituency of Itay Al Barud, Shabrakhit and Al Rahmania for the Shura council midterm elections .
The MB candidate, arrested from his house in village of Menshiyat Hamada, district of Shabrakhit, appears now in front of the prosecution of the city of Shabr..

The Egyptian government continues what is becoming a daily crackdwon against activists affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and their supporters ahead of the upcoming Shura Council elections on June 11.

Today, the police forces, unleashed throughout the countery to eliminate the opposition, have arrested 6 MB members from Kafr Al-Sheikh on Monday morning.

The names of th..

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentary bloc will hold, on Tuesday at 11.00AM CLT, a press conference on 2007 Shura Council midterm elections entitled " Setbacks, Obstacles" to discuss the Interior Ministry’s violations, harassments and detentions against MB candidates and their supporters during election campaigns.
Dr. Hamdi Hassan, the media spokesman of the MB bloc, confirmed that secur..

Mr. Faisal Kutty, a Canadian attorney and human rights activist  criticized the Egyptian government’s decision to try these civilians before military court stating that the International law is quite clear concerning such issues "The International Law has quite significant requirements..

The UN Security Council approved a draft resolution of establishing the International Court over the case of assassinating former president Rafik Al-Hariri. Ten member states approved while Qatar, Indonesia, South Africa, China and Russia abstained. Meanwhile, the Lebanese opposition is totally rejecting establishing such a international court to try killers of Al Hariri .
 
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The Egyptian security services continue its repressive policy of arresting supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood candidates running for the Shura Council midterm elections.
 
In Dakahlia
 The security forces in Dakahlia still continue their escalations against Muslim Brotherhood candidates and their supporters in constituencies of Talkha and Mit Ghamr. The security forces alw..

Muslim Brotherhood youth expressed their dissatisfaction to the lies published by Al-Masri Al-Youm daily newspaper around the Muslim Brotherhood group. The latest of these lies was published by the newspaper last Tuesday, May, 29, 2007, about a rectification revolution carried out by Muslim Brotherhood bloggers inside the group and that some of them reject the principle of obedience in addition..

Over 500 Muslim Brotherhood Members Under Arrest, Provisional Detention

Monofiya security forces assaulted on Friday Dr. Yasser Hammoud, the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentarian for the constituency of Istinha.

Dr. Hammoud was attending a funeral in his constituency when police forces were raiding neighboring villages to arrest supporters of Salah Al Semari, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate for the Shura Council. Two police cars pulled over Dr. Hammoud with n..

The Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc threatened with staging an open sit-in starting from Tuesday June, 12, 2007 unless Interior Minister, major general Habib Al-Adli, attends an interrogation in parliament regarding the incident of assaulting the Muslim Brotherhood MP Yasser Hammoud at the hands of the State Security Police in the governorate of Monoufia.
 
The MB bloc’s member..