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Khalil Anani: MB Boycott Annulls Elections

Khaleel Al-Anani, political researcher at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, stressed that the MB boycott of the local elections was a wise, right, and on-time decision. It robbed elections of legitimacy, he said. ..

Egypt’s Ruling NDP Launches Dozens Websites, 12 Papers, Anti-MB Campaign on Cyberspace

The General Secretariat of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) approved a media plan submitted by Dr. Aliyuddin Hilal, the party’s Secretary of Information under a request from Safwat Al Sharif and the policies committee secretary, Gamal Mubarak...

Habib Urges Arab Leaders to Embrace Democracy in Pursuit of Stability

Dr. Mohamed Habib, Deputy Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, stated that the nation’s ability to confront threats and challenges ahead relys on its leaders commitment to genuine democracy and comprehesnive reform..

Brussels’ Conference Criticizes Egypt’s Human Rights Violations, Calling to End Military Trials

The Belgian capital Brussels hosted on Thursday March, 20th, 2008, a conference about freedoms in Egypt . The conference, entitled Freedoms and Human Rights in Egypt where to", was organized by the London Based Justice International, the Paris based Arab Commission for Human Rights and the Coalition for Freedom and Dignity in Brussels in addition to "Release40", the international campaign calling for releasing the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders referred for the military court...

Robert Fisk: Security Forces Jail Arab and Islamic Countries

Prominent UK writer Robert Fisk condemned Arab and Islamic regimes and said that the Arab and Islamic world is now living under the slogan:" silence them, charge and jail", pointing out that these actions are carried out by security services that jail peoples...

Administrative Court Issues First Ruling to Halt Local Elections

The Administrative court ruled on Sunday to suspend local elections in Kafr Saad and Zarka centers in Damietta Governorate north of Egypt, since earlier court orders in favor of the MB candidates in the same centers were not executed..

Will Targeting Media Leaders Silence the Muslim Brotherhood?

The Egyptian regime’s security crackdowns against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has recently aggravated in the run up to the municipal elections scheduled to be held next April, 8th. However, these crackdowns got even more aggravated after Egyptian security services targeted media leaders and figures...

Election Registration Committee Refuses to Implement Court ’s Rulings

The committee supervising Egyptian municipal elections scheduled to be held next April, 8th, refused to comply to the administrative court’s rulings ordering it to receive Muslim Brotherhood’s candidates...

Election Committee Ignores Court Orders to Register Hundreds MB Candidates

The committee supervising Egyptian municipal elections scheduled to be held next April, 8th, refused to comply to the administrative court’s rulings ordering it to receive Muslim Brotherhood’s candidates. ..

Akef in Conference for Supporting Palestine : Camp David Treaty Isolated Egypt

The Palestinian cause can never be isolated from other issues like Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Egypt, because all these issues are actually stemming from one issue caused by the US backed Zionist entity, said MB chairman Mohamed Mahdi Akef...

Habib: Egyptian Regime Blocks MB Attempts to Field Women in Municipal Elections

Egyptian regime thwarts all attempts to field female candidates in the Municipal elections scheduled to be held next month, said MB deputy chairman Muhamad Habib. ..

Egyptian University Students Protest Gaza Holocaust

Thousands of Egyptian university students held demonstrations protesting the massacres and war crimes committed by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) against Gaza residents throughout the past few days. The most prominent of these demonstrations was the one in Cairo University , it lasted for more than four hours and witnessed clashes between security forces and students. They security forces assaulted the students and caused slight injuries for some of them. The students- represe..

Will Egyptian Regime Use Verdict Session a Bargaining Chip against MB in Municipal Elections?

The ongoing military tribunal for 40 Muslim Brotherhood leaders was supposed to come to an end on February 26th, when the sentencing session was held. More than 3000 detainees’ relatives and MB members and tens reporters gathered outside the court room in the Haikstep military base in Cairo’s suburbs awaiting verdicts, but the sentencing session was adjourned till March 25th...

US-Islamic World Forum Held in Doha in Absence of Muslim Brotherhood

The fifth US-Islamic World Forum, organized by the Qatari Foreign Ministry in cooperation with the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, was held in the Qatari capital Doha in order t discuss issues and relations between both sides and the obstacles facing t..

Islamic Group in Pakistan Boycotts Elections, Opposition Sweeps

The Islamic group and some other political parties in Pakistan didn’t participate in the parliamentary elections held on Monday Feb, 18th, 2008, while opposition parties have achieved a landslide win...

Egypt’s Parties Committee Seizes Ayman Nour’s Assets, Gives them to Mousa Mostafa

The Egyptian Political Parties Affairs Committee, headed by Shura Council speaker Safwat Al Sharif, issued a decision of taking assets of Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour, including an law office owned by his wife Gamila Ismail and his house, owned by his children Nour and Shadi, plus seizing 15 offices of the party headed by Ayman Nour and giving them to the new party leader Mousa Mostafa...

Kosovo Independence Welcomed Internationally, Rejected by Russia and Serbia

Albanians in Kosovo declared their full independence from the state of Serbia to be the third country that declares its independence in the 21st century after Montenegro and East Timor...

Denying Al-Qaradawi Medical Treatment Visa Sends Mixed Signals

The UK government refused to give an entry visa to Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi to carry out medical checkups and the UK Muslims Council condemned the decision seeing that it may send mixed signals to Muslims...

Last Session of MB Military Tribunal to be Attended by Senior Rights Activists

Nearly coming to a close next Monday, the military trial against Muslim Brotherhood leaders is drawing a huge international attention after it has remained under public spotlight for more than a year. Several international human rights activists will attend the session of next Monday, Feb, 11th, which will witness the last pleading of the defense team. The human rights activists who will attend the court will include anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan who drew international attention whe..

Egyptian Administrative Justice Orders Engineers Syndicate Sequestration Lifted

The Administrative Court issued a ruling on Sunday Feb, 3rd, 2008, in which it ordered Sequestration over the Egyptian Engineers Syndicate be lifted. The court overturned also the decision of the judicial committee chief supervising the elections of Engineers Syndicate in which he prevents fixing a date for holding the syndicate elections to elect a board and a chairman for the engineers. The court also ordered this committee chief to call for holding elections ...