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For the 1st time in history Court of Cessation will examine appeal filed by Al Shater and his Companions today

“The military tribunal did not comply with charters set by the UN convention, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which stipulates military court rulings should not be derived from an independent judiciary", Abdel-Maksoud said. He considered the method in which the court issued cruel and unjust sentences a confirmation of the politicization of the cause revealing the ruling regime’s willingness to weaken the country’s largest opposing political power; that is the Muslim Brotherhood"...

Inauguration of Egyptians For Free and Fair Elections

Among the activists who participated in the inauguration of the "Egyptians for free and fair elections" on the steps of the Press Syndicate are the Coordinator of the Movement Counselor Mahmoud Al-Khudairi, members of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc Dr. Mohammed El Beltagy and Dr. Hamdi Hassan, Nasserist MP Saad Abboud, Independent MP Mohammed Al-Omda, Dr. Jamal Al-Zahran, Distinguished Jurists and professor of Constitutional Law Dr. Yahya al-Jamal, and Dr. Abdul Jalil Mustafa, coordinator of the Kifaya (Enough) movement, renowned intellectual and innovator in Education Dr. Hamed Ammar, leading Labor Party leader Dr. Salah Abdel-Motaal, George Isaac, former coordinator of the Kifaya (Enough) movement, Engineer Yahya Hussein, Mohammed Abdul Quddus, and poet Amin Al-Dib...

The interference continues with MB students eliminated from Student Body electoral rolls of Cairo and Mansoura Universities.

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Arab Doctors Union (ADU) to Form 1st Orthopedic Department in Darfur

Dr. Abdel-Salam Mustafa, General Director for the Ministry of Health, in Darfur, has ascertained that the ministry will meet all the needs and requests of the Arab Doctors Union envoy in order to establish an Orthopedics Department. He stressed that efforts are also in full swing to complete the Urinary Fistula hospital by the Arab Doctors Union in collaboration with the Islamic Medical Association in El-Geneina, in western Darfur...

Egypt: MB detainee nearly dies in al-Marg prison

Alkarama has just received reports from inside ِal-Marg prison in Cairo, that political detainee Ayman Ibrahim al-Dasuqi nearly died in custody. Sources inform that his illness turned critical at 14h00 on 23 October 2009 when his blood pressure sky-rocketed due to complications associated with diabetes...

Justice subverted: 7th session of MB leaders before military courts

Arab Commission has followed with grave concern the obstacles concerning the military tribunal of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood leaders in the renowned case known as No. 963 of 2006 Criminal Court registered at the Military Prosecutor General’s Office file No. 2 of 2007 in which 18 Egyptians are still serving harsh prison sentences...

Abdul Monem Abdul Maksoud: The continued detention of Abul Fotouh is nothing but a settling of scores.ِ

The Supreme Court in Cairo today ordered for the unjust renewal of Dr Abdul Monem Abul Fotouh, Dr Gamal Abdul Salam, Eng. Ahmed Ali Abbas, and Eng. Khaled Alsayed Beltagy a further fifteen days. Reda Fahmy one of the movement's leaders was issued a release order...

Abu Shaar warns of storming the Aqsa

He appealed to the world community to stand alongside the Palestinians in face of the Israeli occupation authority's (IOA) desecration of their holy places and not to remain silent towards the IOA crimes in occupied Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque...

Akef: The Palestinian cause is on the Brotherhood's high priorities list.

A rally in Shebin –el-Kom was held where thousands of people united in solidarity objecting to the aggressions and unjust violations taking place in Palestine in general and on the Holy mosque of Al-Aqsa in particular...

International Artists unite in an initiative to end illegal US detentions in Guantanamo Bay.

The petition organized by the Centre for National Security has collected signatures from pop, rap, heavy metal, contemporary artists and former guards from the Guantanamo Camp in an effort to convey their distaste in methods used for the torture of detainees during interrogation...

MP demands the continued intervention of government security be stopped.

Questions aimed at Prime Minister Dr Ahmed Nazif and Minister of Education Dr Yosry Algamal included an inquiry be made of the transfer of Mohamed Alsharaky the principal for Alzahraa Primary school to the administration office despite the fact that under his supervision the school had won first place in the "Quality Project" in the Beheira governorate. Alsharaky is currently detained after unjust arrests were made earlier of members of the Muslim Brotherhood members...

Human rights activists condemn security practices against MB students.

MB students carrying banners protest and condemn the dismissal and suppression of freedoms of expression at Egyptian universities demanding investigations...

International conference discussing reform at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo.

On Monday October 19th, the Arab League headquarters in Cairo hosted an international conference discussing "the future of reform in the Islamic world" which aimed at sharing experiences with Turkish Sheikh Muhammad Fethullah Gulen concerning the social civil reform movement...

Press conference promoting transparent elections.

A press conference has been scheduled for Sunday October 25th by the movement "Egyptians for free and proper elections" in front of the Journalists' Syndicate to announce the reasons and aims for establishing the movement...

8 Detention orders and complaints of harsh treatment in Dakahleya.

Mansoura prosecutors decided to renew the detention of 8 Muslim Brotherhood members a further 15 days pending investigation...

Lawyer Haitham al-Maleh referred to the Military Courts

The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has strongly criticised the ongoing detention of the senior Syrian lawyer and human rights activist Mr. Haitham al-Maleh, and his referral to the military courts, which he is expected to stand before on Wednesday 21/10/2009...

THE CONDITIONS OF PALESTINIANS IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES IN 1948

Sixty years ago, the Security Council received a request of the admission of the State of "Israel" to the United Nations, where at that time it pledged to accept without reservation the obligations contained in the Charter of the United Nations when becoming a member...

Kuwait's Islamists and ICM stand up against parliamentary normalization with IOA

Prominent Kuwaiti parliamentary leaders, declared their intention to introduce a bill in parliament prohibiting any kind of direct or indirect relations or dealings with the Israeli occupation expressing their solidarity with Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa mosque...

Syria : Jurist and Activist Haitham Al-Maleh Should Be Released at Once

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information denounced the kidnap of the activist and jurist Haitham Al-Maleh. ANHRI stated that the Syrian security has turned to be a “kingdom of terror” continuously kidnapping and torturing activists and prohibiting all forums calling reform...

The Interview: Wael Abbas

The Egyptian journalist on Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood, and why he lost respect for Barack Obama..