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Minarets in the Land of Freedom (Part One)

In his recently published book, Les Minarets de la Discorde. Eclairages sur un Débat Suisse et Européen, which discusses the controversy around minarets in Switzerland, Dr. Patrick Haenni gives an overview of the current debates on Islam in the West...

Amnesty criticizes Egypt probe of rockslide

Leading international human rights organization, Amnesty International, has lashed out at the Egyptian government over what it said was Cairo’s dismissal of the poorer segments of society that live in threat of rockslides destroying their homes...

Sawaseya: Military tribunals deny Egypt the services of its prominent sons.

In a statement of which "Ikhwanweb" was given a copy, The Sawaseya Centre for human rights condemned the irrational verdict issued by the appeals court in Cairo where the judiciary overruled the appeal filed by the members of the Muslim Brotherhood members including Eng. Khayrat el-Shater were unjustly served harsh sentences by the military tribunal...

Disappointing overrule of Military tribunals appeals.

The Appeals Court in Cairo overruled an appeal filed by the Muslim Brotherhood members who were sentenced by Military Tribunal on April 15, 2008 to harsh sentences which ranged from 3-10 years...

Segregation in mosques – the woes of being a woman

Most women I know have no problem being placed behind the men in a mosque, not because they use the chance to husband-shop, (although I know some women do seize that particular ‘opportunity’) but because it is the more appealing option compared to the alternative...

Ministry of detainees: Diabetic Palestinian prisoners rose to 88 patients

The ministry of prisoners’ affairs reported Sunday that the number of Palestinian prisoners suffering from diabetes in Israeli jails jumped to 88 patients at a rate of 10 percent compared to last year...

Muzzaini: German mediation active, but did not reach final solution

Dr. Osama Al-Muzzaini, one of the Hamas leaders who is in charge of the captives issue, said that his Movement's talks with the German mediators under Egyptian patronage on the prisoners' exchange deal with Israel were "vigorous" but did not yet reach the aspired end of the road...

Dweik slams Zaanoun for threatening to transfer PLC’s powers to PLO

In a press statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC), Dr. Dweik condemned such talk as illegal, saying the PLC is the master of itself and no one can abolish and replace it or take its powers because it is a standalone system...

Arab League condemns Israeli violations of Palestinian prisoners' rights

The Arab League council has condemned the Israeli violations against Palestinian and Arab prisoners and suggested asking for a consultative ruling by the international court of justice (ICJ) on the issue of those captives...

Ex-detainee Hussein urges Palestinian resistance to kidnap more Israeli soldiers

GAZA, (PIC)-- Newly released ex-detainee Younis Hussein on Sunday called on the Palestinian resistance factions to kidnap more Israeli soldiers in order to ensure the release of all Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails, adding it is the most effective way to close the file of prisoners...

European jurists call on citizens to document violations of Abbas’s militias

A number of eminent jurists in Europe called on the Palestinian people in the West Bank to document the crimes committed by Mahmoud Abbas’s militias against them in order to prosecute the perpetrators in international courts...

US Embassy conducts survey to determine Egypt’s political powers' influence

"The United States Embassy in Cairo is preparing to conduct a comprehensive survey which includes a large number of academic intellectuals, Political Science Professors and Social Activists...

Release of Dr Aboul Fotouh.

In a related note Dr Ossama Nasr and his companions who were merged in the same case have also been given release orders and started making their way home...

Release of Dr Aboul Fotouh.

In an urgent news release "Ikhwanweb" the official English Muslim Brotherhood website posts the news that State Security decided on the release of Dr Abdul Monem Aboul Fotouh Secretary General of the Arab Doctors Union and a high ranking member of the Executive Bureau who has been detained since July...

IOF artillery shells slam farmland in Gaza, settlers attack shepherds

Local sources said that the IOF fired two artillery shells that exploded in an empty agricultural field causing material damage to nearby homes but no casualties...

Agha warns of unfolding food crisis in besieged Gaza

Palestinian minister of agriculture Dr. Mohamed Al-Agha warned of what he called “the unseen famine” which started to manifest itself in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip...

Bardawil: PFLP initiative under careful study

MP Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil, the spokesman of the Hamas parliamentary bloc, has said that his Movement was carefully studying the initiative tabled by the popular front for the liberation of Palestine (PFLP) regarding national reconciliation...

IOA moves Palestinian detainee to where his wife is held

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has moved detainee Obada Bilal, who is blind, from the Negev prison to Petah Tikva detention center where his wife has been under interrogation for the past four days...

Sawasya: Israel uses Palestinian prisoners as guinea pigs to test drugs

GAZA, (PIC)-- Sawasya center for human rights stated Monday that Israel uses Palestinian prisoners as guinea pigs without their consent to test the efficacy of new drugs manufactured by its health ministry on their bodies, calling for an immediate investigation into this violation...

Egyptian women alliance against Mubarak succession plan

Over recent years, speculation has been rife that Mubarak, 81, is grooming his younger son Jamal, a banker-turned-politician, to take over after him. Both Mubaraks have repeatedly denied such claims...