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Deputy chairman of MB Parliamentary Bloc, Mr. Hussein Mohammed Ibrahim, tabled a memo to People Assembly (PA) Speaker Dr. Fatehi Sorour demanding that articles 225 and 228 of the parliament statute take more effect, and that hearing sessions be held for the judges to ask their opinion toward the judiciary authority bill which was approved by the Cabinet and referred to the Two Houses for endors..

 Jordanian security authorities have refused to allow the families of four detained MPs to visit them in prison for over a week. Prison director stated the decision was taken by "higher authorities”
The MPs lawyer complained to the Attorney General that this decision is in a violation of the law; who agreed that the decision to withhold visits was exceptional. Attorney Hekmat el Rewash..

The Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary Bloc said that the re- detaining of Dr Hassan el Hayawan the professor at Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, in spite of a court ruling releasing him, is but a settlement of political accounts with the Ikhwan. In its statement released Saturday June 17th 2006, the Bloc said it was stunned by this news, adding that the incumbent agencies were supposed t..

President Hosni Mubarak has long known the face of the main opposition to his regime in Egypt. Bearded, dressed in long Islamic robes, it belongs to the religious conservatives of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Manal Hassan does not look like that at all. The secular 23-year-old, with her dark curls and cavernous eyes unhidden by any veil, is part of a new and potentially powerful dissident m..

"The Jordanian regime escalated its unjust campaign against the Ikhwan" Jordanian MB chairman, Al Flahat, said in an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, adding "At a time when Jordan experiences a plethora of challenges either from Israel or the terrorists due to the spread of extremism, or according to the government itself, the Iranian challenges, the government adds fuel to fire..

The South Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday June 18, 2006  adjourned the trial of four journalists till September 16th, amid  a massive public and media presence as well as chantings calling for freedom and release of detainees and lashing out at the regime. The  four journalists, including a member of the Bar Association, are being tried on charges of publi..

 The Egyptian city of al Minya clings to a bend in the Nile River about 220 kilometers south of Cairo. It is a tidy place with a population of a half million and several tourist sites, including an ancient Christian monastery and the tombs of some Fatimid-dynasty caliphs who ruled an Islamic empire from Old Cairo a thousand years ago.

Al Mi..

Jordan’s King Abdullah lashed out at his country’s Muslim Brotherhood Organization, stressing that there can be no tolerance for supporters of terrorism.

Abdullah called four Islamist legislators who offered condolences to the family of the slain chief of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as "misleading and deceptive," and called on the Muslim Brotherhood to reconsider its relati..

Over two decades, the Muslim Brotherhood was able to constitute the main opposition in the country, and to stand up against the British occupation, the palace, the corrupt rule and political parties.
Although the movement didn’t exist within the students and workers committee which represented the national movement in 1946;it played a significant role during the 1948 Pale..

The French security agencies arrested the secretary general of the Muslim Imams Council in France, Daho Meskeen and 16 others, including some of his relatives, on charges of financing terrorism. Earlier last year, the French authorities conducted a probe to investigate whether Islamists are involved in money laundering operations. Meskeen comes from a Tunisian origin and he founded the first Mu..

A forum was held under the auspices of the Egyptian Judges’ Club Tuesday June 20, 2006, hosting MPs, professors, writers and politicians who called on the government to lift its hands off the judiciary and not to proceed with its judiciary authority bill without considering the amendments recommended by the judges.

The judges called on all the deputies in parliament, especially those in..

 Three Palestinian children were killed and 14 other civilians were wounded last night when an Israeli warplane fired a missile at a car in Jabalia refugee camp to the north of the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources said that the 5-year-old child Mohammed Ruka was killed on the spot along with a four-year-old baby girl whose identity was not yet known while the third, 16-year-old child Bi..

Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh knows how to call the faithful to prayer and preach power politics from the pulpit. In his zealous sermon, blaring out of the packed Izz-al-Din al-Qassam mosque in the sweltering June heat, he was alternately defiant and pious, taking a political stand and calling on God to defend it.

"I confirm to our people, to the Arab world and the..