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IOF troops turn Jerusalem into closed military zone

The IOF troops turned the occupied city of Jerusalem into a closed military zone and blocked on Saturday evening all entrances to the Aqsa Mosque to prevent Palestinians from performing prayers inside it...

Khatib: Israeli police cause many Palestinian casualties at Al-Asbat gate

Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, the deputy head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands, said Sunday that a large number of Israeli foot and mounted policemen kidnapped and attacked dozens of Palestinian citizens at Al-Asbat gate which led to many casualties among the citizens...

Alazhar students threaten to go on a hunger strike.

Alazhar University campus has seen chaos and havoc where students have been protesting for the third day running voicing their anger and dissatisfaction...

Cairo: Investigations of 16 Muslim Brotherhood leaders, Extension of Nazeely and his companions' detention, Renewal of Abul Fotouh's confinement.

Prosecutors began investigations and interrogations Saturday with 16 detained Muslim Brotherhood members who were arrested while visiting Sayed Abdul Mageed who was also arrested. All members are highly ranked leaders including a member from the Executive Brotherhood bureau and a former MP...

Sooner or later justice will prevail: Youssef Nada’s name lifted from terrorist list

The Swiss Foreign Ministry announced that the UN Security Council has at last removed the name of Egyptian businessman Youssef Nada from the list of suspected supporters of terrorism due to a Swiss request. Nada and his company were included in the first UN Terrorist list, where he was accused by the US of funding the 9/11 attacks in 2001...

Renewal of detention of Nazeely and 7 MB high-ranking leaders

The Supreme State Security Prosecution decided today to continue the detention of 8 leading Muslim Brotherhood figures from the governorates of Cairo and Giza for a further 15 days after they were charged with accusations, in which the movements' members have faced many times...

Habib: IOF and the U.S. administration behind recent wave of arrests

Dr. Habib has attributed these media campaigns promoted by the Israel occupation forces and arrests of the Brotherhood leaders, including Dr. Aboul-Fotouh and his brothers, in order to prevent relief and charitable work in the Gaza Strip..

Politics, Terrorism, and the Sunni Divide

Wahhabism and the Muslim Brotherhood are two distinct forms of Sunni Islamism. They have separate histories and separate worldviews. In reality they are not even the same type of movement. Their origins were largely unrelated. Their historic missions have been completely different, as are their current goals and means of achieving those goals..

State security forces continue targeting high-ranking leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, including former MP

Friday morning saw the arrests of 15 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Sharqia. Among those detained was former MP Dr Sayed Abdul Hamid who was visiting one of the movements' members...

Schisms within the Jordanian MB

Writing in The Daily Star, Oraib Al-Rantawi describes the current internecine conflict within Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood over relations with Hamas...

Bulgaria's first Muslim Political Party is slammed by opposition facing its first constitutional challenge.

Bulgaria has reported the founding of its first ever Muslim Party. For the first time in history the party named "Muslim Democratic Party" will be working along side the other eight Christian Political parties in Bulgaria...

The Ministry Of Transportation In Kuwait Controls Blogs And Web Sites.

The Arabic Network For Human Rights Information, ANHRI, warns of the gravity of the news spreading that the Kuwaiti ministry of transportation is monitoring blogs and web sites...

Physical Assault on Hemma AlHemami in Tunisia Airport After an Interview with AlJazeera and France 24.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, ANHRI, strongly condemns the assault against Hemma AlHemami, the secretary general of the Tunisian Communist party, in Tunisia airport on 29/9/2009 ,arriving from France with his wife the lawyer Radia AlNasrawy after he had had interviews with AlJazeera and France 24...

Sudan : After Intelligence Control Lift On Papers Implementation Could Be The First Step Towards Press Freedom.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information ,ANHRI, welcomed the decision announced by the Sudanese president Omar Al Bashir last week , lifting the state control over newspapers performed by intelligence every evening in..

Reprisal Against Reporters Union Legitimate Members in Tunisia.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information , ANHRI, deeply resented the hostile measures taken by the Constitutional Democratic Congress ruling party in Tunisia against the elected board members of the reporters union who were overthrown by the Tunisian government in August, 2009...

Blogger given offer in exchange for pen, principles, beliefs and conscience.

The blogger was questioned about the up-coming rally which is to take place in October in accordance with the Muslim Brotherhood and El-Ghad party. Fares denied knowing anything about the issue...

A long awaited reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah looks promising but only time will tell.

Khaled Meshaal, Hamas’s political leader, sounded optimistic as he announced that Hamas would sign the Egyptian reconciliation accord with Fatah and other Palestinian factions in October in an effort to pave the way for the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections...

When it comes to blogging in Egypt maybe "Honesty isn't the best policy"

It seems that saying or writing what you think may get you into a lot of trouble. The latest in a number of deportations from Egypt include Per Bjorklund, a Swedish journalist and blogger specializing in Egyptian labour issues who was stopped by security at Cairo airport early Tuesday and was set to be deported from the country...

Egypt: Bargaining Bloggers to stop opposing the Government

“You will be behind the sun” was the expression used by the Dean Abdul Hadi, General Inspector of State Security at Fayoum (Egyptian Province), while he was interrogating the Egyptian blogger AbdelRahman Fares last Friday, 25 September, 2009, who blogs at Lesany Hoa elKalm (My Pen Is My Tongue)...

Egypt Brotherhood calls on government, rebels to stop fighting

Egypt's Brotherhood has called on the government and the Houthi rebels to stop the fighting in northern Yemen and urged them to provide safe routes to help relief agencies to reach the affected people...