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The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR)has expressed reservations about the Egyptian anti-terrorism law. Mohammad Fayek, the General Secretary of the Arab Organization for Human Rights emphasized before human rights committee at people’s assembly on Sunday 28/5/2006 that the emergency law could not be replaced with a more permanent law. He added that such a law represents a threat to huma..

General Outlines

-Broadening the scope of participation of the government in the executive authority in line with that of the president .   
                             
-Imposing restrictions on the pres..

The Freedom Committee of the Lawyers Syndicate is organizing a major conference on Thursday, June 8, 2006

At the close of its meetings held on Monday June 6th 2006 in London, the Syrian National Salvation Front asserted it is seeking a peaceful change in Syria without foreign interference in the country ’s domestic  affairs.

For his part, Muslim Brotherhood chairman in Syria and Front member Ali Sadreddin el Bayanoni dismissed as groundless reports of the Front seeking to form a gover..

The Mahfouz Nahnah Third International Annual Forum will discuss the Islamic movement’s reform efforts and visions for the 21st century, which is scheduled to begin in July. Algerian Peaceful Society Movement (Hams), the MB chapter in Algeria which is sponsoring the forum, said it chose this issue out of its conviction of the challenges facing the Muslim world and the needs for change..

 Six Muslim Brotherhood members of parliament (MP) received an invitation from the Egyptian German Society to meet with a high..

Deputy chairman of MB Parliamentary Bloc, Mr. Hussein Mohammed Ibrahim, tabled a memo to People Assembly (PA) Speaker Dr. Fatehi Sorour demanding that articles 225 and 228 of the parliament statute take more effect, and that hearing sessions be held for the judges to ask their opinion toward the judiciary authority bill which was approved by the Cabinet and referred to the Two Houses for endors..

 Jordanian security authorities have refused to allow the families of four detained MPs to visit them in prison for over a week. Prison director stated the decision was taken by "higher authorities”
The MPs lawyer complained to the Attorney General that this decision is in a violation of the law; who agreed that the decision to withhold visits was exceptional. Attorney Hekmat el Rewash..

The Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary Bloc said that the re- detaining of Dr Hassan el Hayawan the professor at Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, in spite of a court ruling releasing him, is but a settlement of political accounts with the Ikhwan. In its statement released Saturday June 17th 2006, the Bloc said it was stunned by this news, adding that the incumbent agencies were supposed t..

The French security agencies arrested the secretary general of the Muslim Imams Council in France, Daho Meskeen and 16 others, including some of his relatives, on charges of financing terrorism. Earlier last year, the French authorities conducted a probe to investigate whether Islamists are involved in money laundering operations. Meskeen comes from a Tunisian origin and he founded the first Mu..

A forum was held under the auspices of the Egyptian Judges’ Club Tuesday June 20, 2006, hosting MPs, professors, writers and politicians who called on the government to lift its hands off the judiciary and not to proceed with its judiciary authority bill without considering the amendments recommended by the judges.

The judges called on all the deputies in parliament, especially those in..

 Three Palestinian children were killed and 14 other civilians were wounded last night when an Israeli warplane fired a missile at a car in Jabalia refugee camp to the north of the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources said that the 5-year-old child Mohammed Ruka was killed on the spot along with a four-year-old baby girl whose identity was not yet known while the third, 16-year-old child Bi..

According to the latest figures, about 2000 Sunnis families have left Basra after they found death threats messages in their homes or through phone calls

Some other 800 families fled to neighboring cities after they lost their relatives through assassinations or detentions, hoping to return to their homes when life returns to normal.

The figures estimate the number of ..

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, the head of the Yemeni Coalition Party for Reform, Mr. Mohammed Kahtan, said that the coalition will select a presidential candidate in the next few days to run for the upcoming elections in September 2006.

The Coalition Party Executive Council held a series of meetings to discuss preparations for both presidential and municipal elections in coor..

The Cassation Court Thursday nullified the parliamentary election results of Nasr City and Misr al Gadida constituencies. The court cited irrefutable evidences  that the election process was marred by many serious irregularities including rigging the election in favor of the NDP candidates, in addition to violations the of law on exercising political rights.

The court also affirme..

The Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary Bloc issued a statement Sunday June 25, 2006, rejecting the judiciary bill proposed by the government. The statement also said that the bill “beats around the bush” by ignoring the judges’ demands topped by full independence of judiciary authority. The bill kept the main disputed matters unchanged, including the remaining of the highest judiciary bodies unde..

A conference was held Thursday June 27th 2006, at the Egyptian Press Syndicate, where participants announced the creation of  popular tribunals  to try officers accused of torture of detainees. Chief Justice Mahmood el Khodairy, the Chairman of the Alexandria Judges’ Club, and the deputy chairman of the Court of Cassation, stated to Ikhwanweb "This tribunal will hold accountable any o..

A delegation from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood MPs topped by Dr. Hamdy Hassan, spokesperson of the MB Parliamentary Bloc, and his deputy met with Ms. Geneve Abdu, the researcher with the UN Secretary General Office, who conducted a dialogue with the MB representatives concerning their vision toward some political issues which the UN Secretary General will count on for his evaluatio..