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The Egyptian security forces arrested Mohamed Abdul Qoddous, the head of the freedoms committee in the Press Syndicate and Malek Mostafa, the blogger of MaLcoLM X (http://malek-x.net/) in the demonstration organized by Kifaya Movement in front of the People’s Assembly to show solidarity with the members of parliament rejecting the constitutional amendments whic..

Counselor Mamdouh Marie, the Egyptian Justice Minister, said on Tuesday that the approval on the constitutional amendments in Monday referendum reached 75.9 %, while the turnout was 27.1 % of all registered voters (36 million).

Marie said, in a press conference: “The turnout in the referendum reached about 9,701,000. Of those, 7,172,436 approved the constitutional amendments, while 2,27..

Families of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) detainees at Burj Al-Arab prison complain of the bad conditions which they face while visiting their loved ones behind bars.
The road to the prison is extremely hard and bumpy, and the searches they face lead in most cases to contaminating the food.
 
While visits are officially allowed in all Egyptian prisons once a week, the prison admini..

Egyptian State Security Police forces raided on Friday morning the house of the Egyptian blogger, Abdel Moneim Mahmoud, Ikhwanweb reporter and correspondent for the Cairo-based British Hewar channel. Mahmoud was not at the house when the raid occurred. Ikhwanweb established contact with Abdel Moneum and ensured his safety in undisclosed location. 
 

Salah Nouman, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidate for Shura Council elections in Alexandria, got, along with three other candidates, four court rulings ordering the administrative authority to accept their papers to run for seats in the Shura Council elections in Alexandria.

The Administrative Court in Alexandria issued this ruling on Saturday May, 19th, 2007, headed by judge Mohamed ..

Egyptian prosecution released students of the Agricultural Cooperation Institute and four MB leaders and blogger Abdul Moneim Mahmoud.
 
The Higher State Security Prosecution ordered on Wednesday releasing students of the Agricultural Cooperation Institute and four Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders and blogger Abdul Moneim Mahmoud.
 
The four MB leaders, who were detained pe..

The second session of the military tribunal of forty Egyptian reformists and business moguls belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group will be held in the Huckstepp military base on Sunday, June, 3rd.
 
The MB leaders have been referred to the military justice after denying these honest reformists their constitutional right to stand trial before their competent judge although th..

The defense team in the MB military trial will hold an international press conference at the Bar Association on Monday June 4, 2007 at 11:00 AM.

The press conference is a reaction to the government’s decision to prevent foreign observers and human rights organizations from attending the second session of the military trial for MB leaders.

Among those who ha..

The military tribunal for the 33 Muslim Brotherhood leaders has been adjourned to July 15th

The Egyptian security services denied all media outlets access to the court to cover the military court. Also denied access were international observers and human rights organizations.
 
The military court rejected the defence motion to release on bail engi..

Hours before the kickoff of the Egyptian Shura Council midterm elections, the State Court issued a ruling of stopping elections in constituencies of Quwisna and Birket El-Sab and Talla and Al-Shuhadaa in Monofiya and Itay Al Barud in Al Beheira because names of the Muslim Brotherhood candidates have been excluded from candidates election lists.
 
For his part, Salah Al Semari the Mus..

Administrative Justice Suspends Elections in 3 Monofiya, Beheira Constituencies 

 
Hours before the kickoff of the Egyptian Shura Council midterm elections, the State Court issued a ruling of stopping elections in constituencies of Quwisna and Birket El-Sab and Talla and Al-Shuhadaa in Monofiya and Itay Al Barud in Al Beheira because names of the Muslim Brotherhood candidat..

The Supreme Administrative Court , headed by judge Al Sayed Nofal, issued a landmark ruling rejecting a request by the Election Committee (EC) to exclude 8 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidates from running for the Shura Council midterm elections scheduled to be held on Monday, June, 11, 2007 
 
The Election Committee, headed by Adel Indrawas, lodged a request to exclude ..

Ali Gawish, member of Sudan MB executive office: commitment to Abuja agreement solves/ends Darfur crisis

Sudan Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is associated - as the general Sudanese trend- with many splits afflicted the association...

 Professional syndicates and trade unions are amongst the most important aspects of democratic practice in Western countries. In these countries we find what is called "parallel unions" which exercise its activities freely. However, Egyptian professional syndicates are different. Most of these syndicates are either under the control of the governing National Party or under close guard. The..

We extend our hands and open our hearts for holding an open dialogue through which we want to solve all our issues, said Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the Hamas politburo deputy chief in a statement to Ikhwanweb.
 
The Palestinian arena is currently witnessing serious incidents that may have an impact on the course of the Palestinian cause and the history of the Palestinian people since the..

Sudan has approved a UN-AU joint Force to Darfur, and the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan approves this provided that it is in line with national sovereignty.
 
The UN Security Council delegation confirmed that the Sudanese government gave an unconditional approval for deploying UN-AU joint peacekeeping force in the region of Darfur.
 
This was announced by South Africa’s del..

Mauritania’s MB Submits Request For Establishing Civil Political Party

Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour, the general coordinator of the moderate reformists, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood group in Mauritania, lodged papers for establishing a political party on Tuesday June, 19, 2007, to be the first political party for Islamists in Mauritania, nearly twenty years after..