The Muslim Brotherhood said Saturday that Egyptian authorities detained 43 members of the fundamentalist group over the past two days, including 25 as they were hanging posters condemning Egypt’s emergency laws.

Leading Brotherhood member Mohammed Morsi also charged that baton-wielding police beat lawmakers from the group during a protest Thursday to support judges facing a dis..

The emergency law is a tool in the hands of the executive power to storm many basic rights and freedom guaranteed by the Egyptian Constitution. Since the assassination of President Anwar El Sadat in October 1981 , the emergency law was renewed by a temporary resolution no. 560/1981 for one year and then has been extended many times again till 2003.
The emergency law grants to the authority t..

In a surprise move, the Egyptian government submitted a request to parliament to extend Emergency laws for another two years despite the national rejection and the pressing demands to end the state of emergency.

As expected, the government cited the latest terrorist attacks in Dahab as a justification for the extension. The parliament, which is controlled by a majority of the ruling Na..

Call for solidarity with the international campaign to call off the Syrian law of crime codification No. 49/ 1980 which states that every member of Muslim Brotherhood Organization should be executed

To Arab and Muslim leaders, nations, organizations, parties, movements and to the international organizations, human rights, international courts. To all the leaders, nations al..

The last report of the national council for human rights in Egypt trouble us about the political formation, it indicates that it is still far away to reach the goal we hope for and ..

Terrorist attacks in the Sinai are placing pressure on the ruling Mubarak regime. How much longer will it be before Egypt turns Islamist?

Last week, five terrorist attacks took place in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. On April 24, three explosions shook the tourist resort town of Dahab, killing more than 30 people and injuring 160. April 26, two suicide bombers attacked a multinational peaceke..

In Brief: The question of who will succeed aging Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is crucial not just for Egypt but the Arab world.

By one count, Hosni Mubarak has escaped assassination not just once, but six times, since taking office in 1981.

The long-serving president of Egypt has many enemies, notably militant Islamists who believe he is too friendly with Israel and the U.S...

 The confrontation stepped up a notch on Thursday between the Egyptian government and reformist judges, who openly called for a change of regime and saw their supporters arrested and beaten by police.

After the hearing of two judges who had accused the judiciary of helping to rig elections was adjourned to May 11, their syndicate held an assembly during which they vowed to keep..

“What happened in the parliament on Sunday, was a mockery by all accounts and a disgraceful day for the government. The Egyptian government committed an act of political terrorism by extending the draconian emergency laws for another two years. Disregarding the popular demands and defying the will of the nation” These were the harsh words of Dr. Mohamed Morsy, member of the Muslim Brotherhood E..

By extending emergency laws that were put in place after Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981 by Islamist extremists, Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak has brought the curtain down on a political farce that he had been staging at the behest of President Bush.

Egypt is in dire need of the reform Mubarak promised last fall during his campaign for a fifth six-year presidential term. His prom..

Detentianing thousands of political rivals and journalists, investigating judges, savagely attacking peaceful demonstrations,  and many other incidents.This is the image of freedoms in Egypt today. Despite statements and several promises by president Mubarak during his election campaign, the political reality totally contradicts the presidential vows and statements. It is even worse&n..