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Egyptian Police Torturers Show no Mercy to Mentally Handicapped Lad!

A policeman in the southern Egyptian governorate of Monoufia embarked on a very outlandish action. He tortured a mentally-handicapped 16-years old boy to extend the Egyptian’s notoriously systematic torture against citizens to include even those who can’t understand what torture means...

After Gov’t Response to Tax Workers, Has Pandora’s Box Been Opened?

55 thousand real-estate taxmen ended on Thursday, Dec, 13th, 2007, a ten day strike after government gave an initial response to their demands, promising them to address all their demands on three stages. These tax workers staged an open sit-in that included about eight thousand employees in front of the Cabinet building and the government remained silent and reacted only after ten days...

5 Rights Groups Urge Mubarak Reopen Sudanese Refugees Probe

Five human rights organizations called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to order an independent judicial investigation committee to probe into the incident in which police forces assaulted Sudanese protesters- refugees and asylum seekers and emigrants- in the incident that took place in in Mostafa Mahmud Square in Cairo two years ago...

Al Hashemi, Talabani and Barzani Sign Tripartite MoU

In a crucial step aiming to save the deteriorating situation in Iraq and to realize a national reconciliation between all parties inside Iraq, Tarek Al Hashemi, Iraqi vice-president, Jalal Talabani, Iraqi president and Masood Barazani, president of Iraqi Kurdistan region, signed a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Iraqi Islamic Party and both the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)...

MB Parliamentarians Demand Gov’t End Gaza Blockade

Saad Al Husseini, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s (MB) parliamentary bloc, called on the Egyptian government to do more efforts for the Palestinian cause through ending the blockade imposed on Gaza Strip. This came in an urgent statement submitted to the Egyptian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister confirming that Egypt must have an important role in order to establish a dialogue between various Palestinian factions..

"Egyptians against Torture" Meets Thursday to Resist Torture in Egypt

Egyptians against Torture" movement will hold an expanded meeting next Thursday, Dec, 27th, 2007, in the bar association. This meeting is a part of the movement’s preparations for the campaign under the slogan " We will not concede ... We will not reconcile". It called on all Egyptians to participate in this campaign through takin part in a message sent to the public prosecution to stop tortures in Egyptian police stations and prisons ...

Hamas Holds Huge Popular Festival Marking 20th Anniversary

Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas organized on Saturday, Dec, 15th, 2007, a huge popular festival, the biggest in Palestinian territories for decades according decades, to mark the twentieth anniversary of establishing it...

Military Tribunals & International HR Watchdogs

On Feb. 6th, 40 Muslim Brotherhood leaders, headed by MB 3rd-in-command Eng. Khairat El-Shater and MB Executive Bureau Member Dr. Muhammad Ali Bishr, who were pending under a high state security case, have been referred to military justice pursuant to a presidential decree...

Health status of MB detains

In response to the reports issued by the Amnesty International and by some of the Egyptian newspapers on the health status Mr. Khairat Elshater, one of the detainees tried before a military court, we present the following brief report on the health status of Mr. khairat and the whole group..

Hamas Deputy FM in Rice Message: Hamas Seeks Peace

Dr. Ahmed Youssef, the political adviser at the Hamas-led Palestinian Foreign Ministry sent a message through the media to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in which he stressed that Hamas seeks peace, and said that any positive step taken towards finding a solution for the conflict will be deemed a failure as long as the elected legitimate government in Palestine is sidelined and blockaded by the US administration...