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20 Members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Dakahleya faced raids in a pre-dawn crackdown

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Dakahleya faced raids in a pre-dawn crackdown. Many houses were raided but only 18 members of the movement were present during the barbaric invasion...

October 27: first-time appeal by the MB against Military tribunal

The Military Court of Cessation set October 27, as a date to consider an appeal submitted by Eng. Khairat Al-Shater, the second deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and 17 other leading MB leaders against the sentence that had been imposed on them by a court-martial for military offenses in the wake of an exercise demonstration organized at Al-Azhar University by Muslim Brotherhood students...

The Future of the Muslim Brotherhood

In an exclusive interview with The Majalla, Mahdi Akef, General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood admits that he is under great pressure inside the Brotherhood to go back on his decision to step down. Akef, who is over eighty, refused to name the most prominent candidates nominated to succeed him, stressing that it is all up to the World Shura Council of the Muslim Brotherhood...

Emergency State In Egypt And More Prisoners Of Conscience Gamal Heshmat Should Be Released At Once

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, ANHRI, deeply resents and refuses the repressing illegal measures and procedures indifferent of court decisions taken by the Egyptian security authorities where an arrest order was issued for Gamal Heshmat and 12 others right after a release order has been issued from the court in Damanhur...

The Tunisian Government Starts The Propaganda By Banning A Paper And An Ad Campaign In Egyptian Papers

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, ANHRI, stated that the Tunisian government launched its public and presidential elections campaign by confiscating an issue of "Al Tariq Al Jadid" newspaper, advocating for "Mouvement Ettajdid", "revival movement", which published the election statement of the presidential nominee of the movement "Ahmed Ibrahim". The issue was ready to be distributed on 11/10/ 2009...

UN backs Gaza war crimes report

The UN human rights council has endorsed the Goldstone report on Israel's war on Gaza, which accuses the military of using disproportionate force as well as laying charges of war crimes on Israeli occupation forces and Hamas...

Goldstone Report: HUMAN RIGHTS IN PALESTINE AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES

Head of the UN Fact Finding Mission Justice Richard Goldstone presented the report of the Mission to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on 29 September 2009, urging the Council and the international community as a whole to put an end to impunity for violations of international law in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory...

11 arrests with the continued campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood members from Beheira, Qalubeya and Ismalia

The governorates of Beheira, Qalubeya and Ismalia witnessed yet further offensives against members of the Muslim Brotherhood movements. Houses were barbarically raided, furniture and belongings overturned and complete chaos took place including the confiscating of computers, books and CD's belonging to the detainees...

Religious expatriates and citizens are given the boot by UAE under allegations of suspected loyalty.

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MB MPs demand investigation into killing of Abu Zuhri

Muslim Brotherhood's Parliamentary bloc demanded the immediate release of all Palestinian prisoners in Egyptian jails without trial, stressing that what happened was an obstacle for national reconciliation, unity and reunification of the Palestinians...

Muslim Brotherhood's opinion in a Newsletter 14.10.2009, (The Constitutional Struggle for Voting Rights Continues)

The Muslim Brotherhood's constant decision in which they firmly assert their running for the up-coming elections where the movement will discuss each case running for general election announcing the movement's opinion of whether or not to contest the elections..

Demands for immediate investigations on the death of Palestinian detainee in Egyptian jails.

The Egyptian Human Rights Organization filed a report to Chancellor Abdul Mageed Mahmoud, Interior Minister, and Mukhlis Qutb Ambassador for human Rights demanding the immediate investigation of the death of the brother of Hamas leader's brother Yusef Abo Zuhri. The appeal demands the punishing and sentencing of all those involved in his death if found guilty...

Report reveals overcrowding of Egyptian prisons.

Dr Atia Mahana who had conducted the survey has revealed that Egypt's jails are only fit to house 17 000 prisoners; however the prisons currently have more than 22 000 inmates. They include criminal offenders, political activists and those still awaiting sentencing. He continued that he believed that reason for overcrowding comes down to the lack of sufficient supervision in the distributing of prisoners and the uncalled for detaining of those awaiting sentences...

Al-Adly: Overwhelming Brotherhood victory will not be repeated

In subsequent elections for municipal councils and parliament's upper house, Brotherhood candidates were disqualified from running by government election officials. The group, which seeks to turn Egypt into an Islamic state through peaceful means, used its impressive grassroots organization to good effect during the 2005 elections. "They achieved some successes in previous elections, but the situation is now different," Interior Minister Habib el-Adly asserted, and he continued that the group's members continue to be rounded up for holding "illegal" secret organizational meetings, and asserted that people have lost faith in their "empty" slogans...

Highlighting Egypt's advantageous freight movement.

A 108-page study states that Egypt is among the most developed economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In the three years prior to the global recession, the country averaged GDP growth of around 7 percent. Geographically, it is a gateway between the world’s major markets. It also controls the Suez Canal and thousands of kilometres of the Nile River...

A salute to Turkey, a salute to Erdogan

I am saying this because it is a Nazi act par excellence to employ the most advanced technology of death to exterminate innocent civilians who are even denied access to food and fuel as well as some of the basic amenities of life, on the ground that a few Israeli settlers were killed and injured by primitive projectiles fired by desperate Palestinian resistance fighters who found themselves very much in a situation resembling that which faced the anti-Nazi resistance fighters in Europe during the Second World War...

Jurists call for forming committee handling reports instead of PA

Many law experts and human rights activists on Tuesday called for forming an independent Palestinian committee responsible for referring reports on Israeli violations of human rights to international bodies and organizations, rather than the Palestinian authority (PA) in Ramallah...

Jordanian frustration with U.S., Israel mounting

While I was in Jordan, King Abdullah gave a lengthy interview to Haaretz about the Israeli-Palestinian situation in which he warned that "We’re sliding back into the darkness."..

Arrest of 11 leading Muslim Brotherhood figures in Sharqia.

In a new offensive on freedom State Security forces raided the houses and arrested 11 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement. Computers, books, documents and CD's were confiscated from the homes of the detainees who were from numerous towns in Sharqia including Zagazig, Menya Alqamh, Derb Negm,..

Abdul Ghafar finds himself detained for the fifth consecutive time.

For the fifth time in a row Prosecutors ordered the extension of Dr Ashraf Abdul Ghafar, Vice-Secretary General of the Medical Association and Rapporteur of the Human Relief Agency for a further 15 days pending investigation in the renowned case no.404 of 2009...