Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

Russian Ambassador to Jordan Alexander Calogen posted Jordanian MB Chairman Salem el Flahat dismissing as groundless reports that Russia has placed the Jordanian MB on its terrorist list.

The Supreme State Security Prosecution on Sunday September3, 2006, extended the detention of 26 Muslim Brotherhood leaderships for another renewable 15 days against the background of what is dubbed as the Ras el Bar case( in which more than 15 MB members were arrested while vacationing in Ras el Bar summer resort). In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, Muslim Brotherhood’s lawyer Abdul Monem..

Cairo Misdemeanors Court on Monday September 4, 2006, ordered the release of 16 Muslim Brotherhood leaderships who had been earlier last month arrested during their visit to atom professor Dr. Rafat Howait. The court’s ruling of release came after MB’s lawyer Abdul Monem Abdul Maksoud challenged the 15- day renewal internment issued by the Prosecution...

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, Dr. Abdul Monem Abul Fotouh, member of the MB executive Bureau, said the Bush administration is a stumbling block in the road of reform in Egypt. However, Abul Fotouh sees that the US administration and the American people are two worlds apart “ The US has a great history of spreading freedoms and protecting rights, but the policies adopted by the Bush Administration – led by the Neocons- spark killings and violence”, he said, citing Bush’s recent statements in which he admitted the presence of secret CIA prisons where torture is said to be systematically exercised on victims to obtain information and confessions.

The Muslim Brotherhood students in faculties of Education and Science, Damietta Governorate, north of Egypt, started an open-ended sit-in as of Thursday of last week in protest against the arrest of two students from the faculties of Education and Science at the hands of security forces reinforced with armed carriers.

The Muslim Brotherhood will field candidates in 15% of the total seats for the upcoming Labor Union elections on November 2, 2006.

 In its appreciation and sensing of the dire need to reactivate the role of women in society, the group has named some of the activist feminist figures to stand as candidates in this election.

As the Workers’ Union election is drawing near, all workers live  a wait and see state of affairs, with debates and questions among them as to how free and fair these elections will be, and whether the winners will put an end to the decade- long sufferings of workers socially and economically, or that the elections will only bring about the same faces with the same status quo.

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, MP and general coordinator for Muslim Brotherhood in the Labor Unions election, Mr. Saber Abul Fotouh, said that the group was hoping to be able to have at least 1400 running for the upcoming labor unions elections, out of 2000 candidates initially applied, but the government excluded all of them.

The Qalyoubeya, north of Egypt, Manpower Directorate refused to abide by the ruling issued by the Administrative Judiciary Court allowing MB candidates to stand for the Trade Union election.

In spite of security crackdowns and repressive measures against them, the Muslim Brotherhood candidates achieved a landslide win in the first phase of election in Cairo, Alexandria and other governorates in the Trade Union election held Wednesday November 8, 2006.

Dr. Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh- member of the MB Executive Bureau- said in statement to Ikhwanweb that:" The suggested constitutional amendments that president Mubarak spoke about in his speech, yesterday, are tailored by the new National Party group that proved that the issue of security and protecting people have no value in their eyes, pointing out that this group is stronger and more dangerous to the country than the old guard..

Dr. Essam El-Erian- the top leader in the Muslim Brotherhood group and an ex-Parliamentarian- said that the Muslim Brotherhood’s insistence on reform made the regime keep me behind bars for about seven months.

He added - in a statement to Ikhwanweb- that he was among more than 1000 MB prisoners of conscience who call for freedom and reform.