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By : IkhwanWeb : The Prosecutor-General of Qena Prosecutions ordered the detention renewal for 11 of MB leaders today, at the forefront i ....
By : Alyoum Elsabe : “They killed her because she was veiled”, these were the first words of Tarek El-Sheribi, brother of Dr. Marwa El-Sherbi ....
A letter from the prisoners of conscience in ...
But this did not solve the problem, it creates another contradiction, since the purch.....
Poll about Muslim Brotherhood Popularity in E...
A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll finds Egyptians continue to view US foreign policy .....
NPD’s regime … A network of fabricated lies
Observers predicted that the government’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood is acce.....
International report slams violation of trade...
The Prime Minister determines which strikes are permissible and can also prevent stri.....
Decision to re-arrest 13 MB leaders following...
In an open and recurrent violation of the court’s decisions, the Interior Ministry is.....
HRW: Israel used drone aircraft to kill unarm...
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) dispatched pilotless aircraft to kill at least 29 Pal.....
How to Make an Islamic Democracy
Aslan argues that a cosmic war is distinct from a holy war, which pits rival religiou.....
Int’l Palestinian campaign slams Israel for h...
The international Palestinian campaign against the siege on Tuesday strongly denounce.....
Will Obama turn a blind eye?
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Criminal Court supports the Decision to relea...
The criminal Court of North Cairo supported the decision of the Supreme State Securit.....
The Tunisian Renaissance Movement condemns at...
The authorities on Tuesday 23 June 2009 attacked a group of lawyers and severely beat.....
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This speech came in response to the campaign launched by a number of French MPs after.....
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The Criminal Court of North Cairo (Circle 4) decided today to release thirteen MB leaders who were arrested in a raids campaign on the 14th May 2009. The Prosecution had falsely charged them with money laundering collected from a terrorism network designed to conceal and disguise its source and nature, but the Court acquitted them today from all charges.
NDP sources said that following the forming of NDP governorate-wide administrative offices in the up-coming elections in July, a wide-scale party forum is expected to be formed to include senior and fresh members. Meetings are expected to be held with parliamentary blocs before starting primaries to choose a presidential candidate according to the party’s bylaw. This coincides with intense contacts and consultations across state institutions discussing Egypt ’s political future as pr
Mohamed Jemil Weld Mansour, head of the Islamic-leaning National Gathering for Reform and Development- Muslim Brotherhood offshoot in Mauritania- and coming presidential candidate, said:" This Junta is an instrument of the coupist stage. We reached a consensus in which we wanted to return to constitutional life and legitimacy. Hereby, we aim to sidestep such a crisis but without violating the military institution which we all fully respect. We are actually talking about a coupist stag
Despite the Criminal Court’s issuing a verdict to release Dr. Osama Nasr and his brothers in the very well-known case in the media known as " The issue of the international Muslim Brotherhood ", the hordes of the unjust regime are still waging ongoing detentions against the Muslim Brotherhood where innocents are pending in custody in the same case, threatening them with imprisonment and wavering with livelihoods, confiscating their funds and sealing off their businesses by illegal mean
The UN fact-finding mission sent to the Gaza Strip held Sunday its first public hearing session with victims of the Israeli war and listened to testimonies of two of them. The public hearings are scheduled to continue for two days.
The European campaign for ending the siege stated Monday that the Free Gaza boats which were supposed to sail for the Gaza Strip at the end of last week left this morning the Cypriot port of Larnaca, adding that this delay was caused by the Israeli threats to intercept them at sea.
Israeli occupation forces firing gas canisters, sonic bombs and rubber-coated bullets at inhabitants of the Beit Ummar village, Al-Khalil district, were confronted with youths throwing stones and empty bottles.
He hailed the important role played by Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, and Dr. Jamal Abdul Salam in the relief and reconstruction effort for Palestinians during the recent Zionist aggression on in Gaza strip, indicating that the Muslim Brotherhood are tackling detentions within Media, political, legal channels.
The Arab Commission for Human Rights regards the administrative detention as a means to dismember the individual’s civil, political, and professional freedom, and a slack means by the Egyptian authorities in which they have resorted, to deter those who disagree with the regime. The Commission condemns these detentions and sees Dr. Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh’s arrest as a direct assault on the Arab Labour Union, demanding the immediate release of the four detainees
Egyptian security forces have arrested a leading member of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood and three others in pre-dawn raids on Sunday, the group said on its website.
Seven years after Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh declared his country an ally in the US war on terror, two models of religious dialogue – one grass-roots and the other authorized at the highest echelons of Yemen’s government – are combating the rise of radicalism, though with varying degrees of success.
Karen Abu Zayd, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) commissioner general, has warned that the 24-month-old Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip was bringing Gaza back to the Middle Ages.
A report on the PA-Israeli violations issued by Hamas Movement’s information office on Wednesday stated that the PA security apparatuses in the West Bank killed six Palestinian citizens and kidnapped 504 others in June.
In contemporary times the focus has been on Islam and its teachings, social and political. Since the relationship between Islam and democracy is strongly debated among people with different views, to understand the opinion of people in Pakistan, a Gilani Research Foundation survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan has said.
Osama Hamdan, the representative of Hamas Movement in Lebanon, has said that the current round of national reconciliation talks in Cairo had ended without agreement due to the obstinacy of Fatah faction.
The Palestine discussion forum returned to operate normally in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on Tuesday evening after it was blocked for two days by the PA telecommunication company in Ramallah.
Dr. Aziz Dweik, the Palestinian legislative council (PLC) speaker, held Tuesday afternoon a meeting with ex-PA chief Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah during which they explored ways of re-activating the PLC’s work and discussed the national reconciliation file.
The U.S. State Department has picked an official to help carry out President Barack Obama’s strategy of reaching out to Muslims around the world -- but chose not to formally announce the fact.
Hatem Abdul Qader, the minister of Jerusalem affairs in the unconstitutional government of Salam Fayyad in Ramallah, tendered his resignation on Tuesday.
The Palestinian government headed by premier Ismail Haneyya on Tuesday strongly denounced Israel for carrying out the largest expropriation of Palestinian land in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, saying that these serious Israeli violations are a result of the PA security coordination with Israel.
The Israeli prisons authority has threatened detainee Ibrahim Hamed of retaining him in solitary confinement throughout his detention in Israeli jails, the Palestinian prisoner’s club stated on Tuesday.
A Muslim professor sets out to discover America with a team of young Americans. They visited over 70 cities and more than 100 mosques on an unprecedented project interviewing countless Americans in their homes, schools, and places of worship.
Last week, Ali Gharib made the important point that what’s happening in Iran is thus far not a rejection of the Islamic republic, but a struggle over its founding principles. Reviewing Moussavi’s formal statement Saturday, Gary Sick described it as diagnosis of "a revolution gone wrong," writing that Moussavi has "issued a manifesto for a new vision of the Islamic republic."
In regards to the legal system concerning the release of the prisoners it is understood that they may be suitable for parole if they have completed three quarters of their sentence in good conduct and don’t pose as a threat to the regime. This defense was emphasized in the case of the six who filed eligibility for parole which included Eng. Ayman Abdul Ghani, a brother-in-law of Eng. Khairat Al-Shater who is the second deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).
State Security Services launched an extensive crackdown today at down against Muslim Brotherhood high-ranking figures in Cairo led by Judge Fathi Lashin, Dr. Abdel-Moneim Abu el-Fotouh, Member of the Executive Bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood, and secretary-general of the Arab Doctors’ Federation
Those parties started a year ago with projects and joint actions submitted to the government, the presidency of the region and relevant institutions aiming at bringing reform to various fields. This joint project has developed forming a united list from which the Kurdish people expect a lot and wish success where it hopes to put an end to corruption and lack of services from which citizens suffer under the authority controlled by the two main parties.
International press freedom campaigner Robert Ménard has resigned as director-general of the Doha Centre for Media Freedom, which he had headed since April 2008. Ménard stepped down on 19 June because the Qatari authorities wanted to restrict what Centre said. Other members of the staff have also resigned.
PA premier Ismail Haneyya on Saturday asked Egypt to completely and permanently open the Rafah border crossing between Gaza Strip and Egypt to alleviate the suffering of the Gaza inhabitants.
Ezzat Al-Reshsq, a member of Hamas political bureau, on Monday said that the political arrest file in the West Bank deepens the rift in the national dialog with Fatah faction which still refuses to end it, stressing that his Movement would not resume the dialog without reaching a solution to this file.
Palestinian man was killed and five others were wounded in the preliminary report on the collapse of a building in Gaza city that was bombed by Israeli occupation forces during their 22-day war on Gaza.
Recently freed speaker of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC) Dr. Aziz Dwaik on Sunday charged the PA leadership with neglecting the issue of the PLC members kidnapped and detained illegally by the Israeli occupation authority
Hamas on Sunday affirmed that there are no political detainees in the Gaza Strip and added that it would announce its final position regarding national dialog later today.
Dr. Mohammed Awad, the secretary-general of the PA council of ministers in the Gaza Strip, has disclosed Sunday that Turkish government and private foundations have pledged to carry out big development projects in the besieged Gaza Strip.
A group of Turkish activists on Sunday demonstrated in front of the Azerbaijan consulate in Istanbul to protest the visit by Israeli president Shimon Peres to Baku.
The Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs on Sunday urged the media not to publish unfounded press speculations on the fate of the prisoners’ exchange deal between the Palestinian resistance and Israel.
The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said in a report covering the period from17 to 23 of June that Israeli military activities in the Gaza Strip as well as excessive restrictions imposed on vital humanitarian needs are still persistent.
Dr. Aziz Dwaik, the speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, has described Israel’s detention of PLC members as unjustified and a blow to democracy.
A state of panic hit the Egyptian streets after devastating reports that the eastern Libyan city of Tobruk is facing plague. The plague has claimed more than twenty lives while dozens are suffering from this deathly microbe in Tobruk which lies less than 80 kilometres from the Egyptian border... Sources from the Libyan press reveal that the disease was discovered long after its breakout where a number of citizens were infected in two close regions twenty kilometers south of Tobruk. T
Tens of journalists from “the Voice of the Nation” newspaper organized a protest today in front of the Journalist Syndicate protesting against the state security forces terrorising campaign against Heba Gaafar the journalist. The journalist was arrested on the pretext of implementing a judicial rule issued for the police officer from the North Coast Police Station.
Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, are crafting language for an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations.
On the other hand, blogger Mahmoud Abdel-Monein sees the crackdown as part of the ongoing attempt to weaken the movement ahead of the coming transfer of the presidential post from Mubarak to his son. He goes on to criticize the weak response of the movement to recent crackdowns, pointing out that even when high leaders received harsh prison sentences in military tribunals last year, the movement left the campaigning on their behalf to their female relatives and younger bloggers. "Why d
Ian has made the headlines for the past weeks. What is happening in this country which maybe after North Korea and Myanmar is one of the most tightly controlled and monitored in the world, has provoked reactions from all sides. It is not a secret that the US government ,
Ismail Haneyya, the PA premier, on Saturday said that the political detention of resistance cadres in the West Bank constituted a stumbling bloc before any inter-Palestinian agreement.
Kuwait is not the first country to experience political gridlock; its brand of standoff has many parallels. Indeed, many currently democratic European political systems evolved out of protracted conflicts between a monarchy resisting any fetters and a parliament anxious to assert its oversight prerogatives and force the cabinet to be politically responsible to the parliament rather than the crown. In these countries, much of the struggle for democracy took the institutional form of a t
Frustration, and general dissatisfaction was the overall mood among the circles of The Islamic Research Academy, Ministry of Endowments, and Al-Azhar University after the US Embassy refused issuing visas to four of the eighty Azhar preachers and Imams who were chosen by the Ministry of Endowments to celebrate the nights of the holy month of Ramadan in the United States, Ikhwanweb reported.
The detainees’ lawyer Mr Abdallah Khalil stated that he had submitted a request to the Attorney General of the North Qena Prosecution to speed up the transferring of the detainees from the prison. The prison is widely known over the country for its reputation of being unsuitable for humans where it poses threats on their overall health and wellbeing.
" That masses are rallying to support him don’t necessarily mean he is the truly popular Iranian leader whose rights have been infringed upon by the incumbent president Ahmadinejad and the conservatives of Iran " Now Western media is furious over clashes between Iranian police and protesters — given that the Iranian authorities had already warned against demonstrating against the election results. Police clashes with protesters everywhere in the world — including in numerous anti-U.
We conducted a study of the Arabic language blogosphere using link analysis, term frequency analysis, and human coding of individual blogs. We identified a base network of approximately 35,000 active blogs, created a network map of the 6,000 most connected blogs, and with a team of Arabic speakers hand coded 4,000 blogs.
Obama’s much anticipated Cairo speech to the Muslim world will be carefully watched by tens of millions of people in the Middle East and beyond. From Morocco to Indonesia, Arabs and Muslims are hopeful that the new president will deliver on his promises to tackle the main root cause of terrorism: Occupation of Arab/Muslim land.
The Hamas Movement said Saturday that Fatah leaders’ talk about the release of 20 out of 750 political prisoners in PA jails in the West Bank is a meaningless stupid game, and an attempt to insult others’ intelligence and to escape from the obligations in this regard.
Liberated prisoner Sumud Al-Qan drew the attention of all those concerned with the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation authority jails to the plight of prisoner Amal Juma who is suffering from cervical cancer.
The Attorney General of Qena’s Prosecution yesterday decided to place eleven of the MB highly ranked figures including the MB executive Bureau member Dr. Mahmoud Hussein into custody for fifteen days pending further investigations. All charges were in an administrative record No. 4016 for 2009, Naga Hammadi. The questioning recorded the abstention of the Muslim Brotherhood representatives as they regarded the charges very similar and repeated.
The Muslim Brotherhood movement wholeheartedly announces their adamant stance of continuing their missionary course despite the malice, injustice and violence perpetrated by wrong-doers. We will however, maintain our peaceful reformist method, no matter what the pressures are despite the constraints and restrictions placed. The Muslim Brotherhood emphasized that the plots and conspiracies of Zionists and those who seek alliance with the U.S. and Zionists will not deter them.
Back in mid-April, the US Department of Homeland Security under new Obama appointee Janet Napolitano released a sobering report on the recent rise of right-wing extremism in the US.
The Free Gaza movement announced its intention to set sail on its eighth mission to break the unjust Israeli siege and mass punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, noting that head of the US green party Cynthia McKinney would participate in this voyage.
Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the acting speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, has asserted that Palestinians would continue to trek the resistance path until all the Palestinian people’s demands in restoring usurped rights are realized.
Ex-prisoner and specialist in prisoners’ affairs Abdul Nasser Farwana has warned that the Israeli occupation authority might liquidate the detained MP Ahmed Saadat, the secretary general of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine.
The ministry of prisoners’ affairs in Gaza expressed its dismay on Friday at the Red Cross for appealing to the Hamas Movement to allow Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to write to and receive letters from his family regularly while there are hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails who are deprived of their rights.
Hamas MP Dr. Mahmoud Al-Ramahi has said that political detention in the West Bank was the main stumbling block before reaching an agreement between Hamas and Fatah factions.
Different Israeli media outlets broadcast videotaped abuse scenes showing Israeli soldiers humiliating and maltreating Palestinian civilians.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum stated that the speech of Khaled Mishaal, the head of Hamas political bureau, due to be delivered on Saturday, would address different political issues and the Movement’s position toward them as well as its strategies in light of the regional and global changes.
Alexander Sultanov, the special Russian presidential envoy to the Middle East, has called for expediting an end to the Israeli siege on Gaza and for solving the problem of Palestinian refugees.
The government committee against the siege announced in a statement on Saturday that the Egyptian authority was blocking an Australian solidarity delegation from entering the Gaza Strip.
Khaled Mishaal, the head of Hamas political bureau, stressed Saturday that his Movement has a genuine intention to achieve the national reconciliation with its rivals, adding that the Hamas experience in the Gaza Strip was compulsory and not optional.
Iyad Al-Samerraei, Deputy Secretary-General of IIP and Head of the Iraqi Parliament, has expressed his wishes for a coalition that would include forces and large parties of all sects and nationalities for all Iraqi people. He agrees on a joint national program to end the phenomena of ethnic and religious coalition, however he does not think this would be achieved in the next parliamentary elections.
The travelling group included five supervisors and thirty-two students. However, the students registered were arrested at the youth hostel in Marsa Matrouh while the five supervisors were detained in Matrouh Security Directorate.
Ben Mansour Added “This council is one of the institutions of the coup stage. We promised we’d be back to the life of legality and constitutionality; therefore we have to overcome this problem; however this doesn’t mean any manipulation of the Military institution, as we respect its status. We should however, endeavour to overcome the situation of the coup and move into a state of constitutionality".
Even Islamist leaders activists – those most concerned with distancing themselves from the U.S. – regularly call on America to meddle, by putting more pressure on Arab autocrats (see here for an interesting example). Mainstream Islamists also regularly express their desire to engage in dialogue with Americans. Pres
