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Security prevents solidarity with Aboul Fotouh

These actions caused traffic disruptions because of the security congestion, roadblocks and a large amount of cement blocks that had been established on the edges of the surrounding streets leading to the Journalists Syndicate. The bystanders were moved away from the area and forced to change their direction. Rapporteur of the Civil Liberties Committee at the syndicate, Mohammed Abdul Quddus, stood alone on the stairs of the syndicate and declared that he condemned the measures taken t..

Torture: A strategy of Egypt’s police force.

The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), in the context of their joint program, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, acknowledged an upcoming press conference to announce its annual report on the situation of human rights defenders all over the world particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. ..

15 days detention for nine MB’s from Sharquia

The Zagazig prosecution renewed the detention of nine Muslim Brotherhood members from Al-Sharqia Governorate for a further fifteen days on charges of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. The Zagazig Criminal Court refused on July 12, 2009, the decision of the Misdemeanors Appeals Court in Zagazig to release them. ..

Palestinian MPs: Netanyahu’s conditions prove futility of PA-Israeli negotiation

Palestinian lawmaker Ibrahim Abu Salem of Hamas’s parliamentary bloc in the Palestinian legislature has derided the conditions put forward by Israeli premier Binyamin Netanyahu to make "peace" with the Palestinians...

Zaidan: The world should move against Israel’s measures in Jerusalem

Palestinian lawmaker and former minister Abdul Rahman Zaidan has called on the Arab and Muslim worlds as well as the international community to take decisive measures against the heinous Israeli practices in the occupied city of Jerusalem...

Bloggers held in Egypt without charge

Islamist blogger Abdel Rahman Ayyash, who writes for Al-Ghareeb (The Stranger), was arrested at the Cairo airport on Tuesday on his return from Turkey where he attended a youth conference, according to multiple news reports. Muslim Brotherhood member Magdi Saad, who used to blog at Yalla Mesh Mohem (Who Cares), was also arrested at the airport the same night after returning from a business trip, according to local news reports. Another Islamist blogger, Ahmad Abu Khalil, who blogs at B..

Document - Egypt: Government should immediately release Musaad Abu Fagr and Karim Amer

Amnesty International is calling on President Hosni Mubarak to order the immediate and unconditional release of Musaad Abu Fagr and Karim Amer, prisoners of conscience who have both been held for more than 18 months. ..

Crackdown on Egypt’s Islamist bloggers

These guys are among the most influential young Islamist bloggers in Egypt, generally voices for dialogue with other currents and reform inside the Muslim Brotherhood. They are among the people campaigning for the release of Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, the prominent member of the MB’s Guidance Council who has articulated reformist tendencies more clearly than any other leader. Let’s hope they are quickly released...

Continued Detenion Of Two Bloggers at Cairo airport.

ANHRI declares that state security services are still detaining Madgy Saad , owner of the blogger "yalla mesh mohem " and Abd El Rahman Ayyash owner of the blog "Al Ghareeb" , after their return form Turkey yesterday. The reason of detention is still not known...

Chairman of the Cairo Criminal Court accuses US of meddling in Egyptian internal affairs

Mohammadi Qunsou, the presiding judge at the criminal court in Cairo, accused the United States of intervening in the internal affairs of Egypt. Qunsou stated in his argument that the defense counsel for the eleven defendants standing trial for the trafficking of newborn children during the hearing counted on the report from the U.S. State Department claiming that this case is not as important as the media makes it out to be in Egypt, or even to be considered by the court. The Egyptia..

Veiled Martyr’s Defense Team: Egypt’s Ambassador Impedes our Movement!!

The Ambassador coolly met the lawyer of the Syndicate. His office has not allowed him and his entourage to visit the victim’s husband Dr. Elwy Ali. According to the report when he finally did decide to visit the victim, he ignored them, although they were visiting at the same time...

The Administration of Al-Marg Prison Continues its insurgence against MB Detainees

This strike was a reaction to the ill-treatment the MB detainees have received in Al-Marg Prison and they stressed that the administration of the prison deliberately keeps them in a single and isolated cell located at the end of the prison in order to prevent them from mixing with anyone else. The detainees also stressed that the administration has reduced the number of hours they have to go out in the prison from eight hours to two hours daily. They allow criminals to leave their cell..

Ways to build tolerance after El Sherbini’s murder

Critics pointed to the deafening silence of the vast majority of Western media outlets that they say would have used the story for their headlines had the roles been reversed – if the Egyptian Muslim woman was the murderer rather than the victim. This long-standing bias, and the trigger of the recent lack of coverage, provoked anger from activists around the world and caused many to blame media that they perceive as routinely stereotyping Muslims as terrorists...

MB Statement : Accusations are unjustified and ludicrous lies

The Brotherhood’s high-ranking leaders detained in Al-Marg Prison under investigation in the case of the alleged "international network of the Muslim Brotherhood" issued a statement, in which they emphasized that they hold prestigious positions...

Jewish settlers launch arson attack on Palestinian cultivated lands

Tens of Jewish settlers on Monday morning set Palestinian cultivated lands on fire in a number of villages south of Nablus city in the West Bank, local sources reported...

Swiss FM: Hamas important player in the Middle East

Micheline Calmy-Rey, the Swiss foreign minister, has described the Hamas Movement as an "important player" in the Middle East that could not be ignored...

IOF installs underwater warning system to block infiltration into Gaza

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have installed underwater warning systems that could monitor any attempt to infiltrate into the Gaza Strip by sea, Israeli security sources revealed on Monday. They added that the system was built in accordance with special technical specifications to detect and abort any sea infiltration by humans or machines. The sources said in a press statement that the system was numerously tested to prove its ability, noting that the tests proved highly s..

Netanyahu: Jerusalem not included in debate over settlement activity

Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed surprise at the US request for an end to construction works in Sheikh Jarrah suburb in occupied Jerusalem. Netanyahu told a closed consultative council session for his cabinet that he explained to US president Barack Obama during a recent meeting in Washington that Israel considers Jerusalem as not included in the debate over settlement activity. He said that Jewish inhabitants of Jerusalem could buy apartments in any place in the ..

OIC: Extremism mounts in Europe

In a statement to Ikhwanweb, IOC officials emphasized that the murder committed inside the German court sparked Egyptian fury and raised feelings of discontent and remonstration in the whole Islamic world. It is necessary to deal with this criminal act under the emerging trend of an increasing influence exercised by radical rights in several parts of Europe, it continued. ..

Islamic Research Center Opposes Racism in Europe

FIOE President Chakib Ben Makhlouf asserted that the killing of Dr. Marwa Elsherbini in Germany in early July served to be a catalyst in accelerating the pace of launching the unit. Its branches will be spread in all European countries and will also examine the influence of the extreme right-wing inclinations of hatred against Muslims...