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Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Salim el Flahat held a press conference in the presence of some of the Ikhwan leading figures, in which he put the public in the picture about the circumstances of these detentions and the truth behind this assault launched by the authorities against the Ikhwan MPs as well as ot..

The AFP news agency quoted Mohanned Al Hosny, the chairman of the Syrian Organization for Human Rights, as saying that 13 of the Muslim Brotherhood members were released. Al Hosny said that these members have been among those who were detained between the years 1981 through 1983 after the bloody events of Hamah which claimed the lives of about ten thousand Syrian people at the hands of the Army..

The Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood organized a rally at the Jordanian University Mosque Friday July 7th 2006, in solidarity with the traumatized Palestinians brutalized by the current Israeli aggression. The rally was attended by Jordanian MB Chairman Mr. Salem el Flahat and several other prominent figures. Events at the rally went peacefully until the administrative governor of th..

Detained Youth for Change activist, Mohamed el-Sharqawi is blogging from prison, in a series postings titled, Ayyam al-3ozla (Days of Isolation)<..

Mr Anwar Sadat had a notorious but particularly apt expression whenever he embarked on one of his endless authoritarian manoeuvres. “It’s all by law!” (kullu bil qanun!) he would intone. Indeed, Egypt’s rulers have always understood that violent repression alone is never enough to control a complex society of guilds. So ..

All those concerned with the political situation in Egypt thought that Egypt is on its way to a genuine political reform, but matters turned out to be getting worse day by day, with the amendments introduced on article 76 as being convincing evidence that these amendments have been made only to restrict the political life and work in favor of the ruling elite. This can also show clearly in the ..

Amnesty International today called on the Egyptian government to ensure that a new law on terrorism currently being drafted does not entrench powers that have facilitated torture, unfair trials and other grave human rights violations under Egypt’s long running state of emergency.
The organization sent a memorandum to President Hosni Mubarak highlighting its con..

U.S. President George W. Bush’s second inaugural address, delivered on Jan. 20, 2005, asserted that "The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands," and that "it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our..

 the PA Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya has launched Saturday an initiative that, in his view, would end the current stand off over the captured Israeli soldier, and to halt all forms of IOF atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

In a press statement issued by his office, Haneyya affirmed, "Out of the Palestinian national interest, and to protect and enhance the Palestinian national u..

Some of Egypt’s lawmakers are taking to the floor of the people’s assembly this week to protest against a new film that might be called the Arab world’s "Brokeback Mountain" for its depiction of a gay romance.
The movie, "The Yacoubian Building," which was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this spring, br..

Some 300 prominent British Jews Friday condemned Israel for its brutal invasion of Gaza and urged the UK government to achieve an immediate ceasefire.

The Zionist regime is "using its enormously superior military might to terrorize an entire people," they said in a full-page petition published in the Times newspaper.

"Bombing power stations and cutting off fuel supplies deprives..

 One element fueling the current crisis in Gaza is the ongoing failure of US corporate media coverage of Israel/Palestine. US policy, public opinion and mainstream media coverage of Israel/Palestine are all dangerously biased towards Israel. Media coverage both reflects and influences policy and public opinion. Media coverage of events in Gaza again illustrates how the US mainstream media ..

Israel’s offensive against peace

The 1949 Geneva Conventions state, in article 54 of their additional protocol: “Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited”. It is also “prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population”. That means that the Israeli army’s latest offensive in the oc..

The Egyptian Parliament passed a controversial press law on Monday, shortly after President Hosni Mubarak instructed his government to remove some of the provisions for prison sentences against journalists. Parliament, at Mubarak’s suggestion, ultimately removed a controversial clause that would have allowed jail terms for journalists who impugn the financial integrity of officials or state emp..

The Parliament has endorsed the final amendments of the law repealing imprisonment in publication while toughening financial penalties in libel cases especially those related to questioning financial integrity of individuals. The latter amendments were met with strong rejection by 107 deputies in the ..

Secretary General of the Islamic Action Front in Jordan, Mr. Zaki Bin Rashid, said  that the decision by the Jordanian Attorney General to dissolve the Islamic Charity Center is wrong and will harm the charity activities in general and will hinder donations flow now that the law has taken ef..

Under the slogan "Alexandria Without Smoking", the Muslim Brotherhood members of Parliament in Alexandria city launched a campaign to combat smoking in public places in collaboration with the local unions, companies, mosques and churches. The campaign will make available to the public 16 clinics for treatment of smokers throughout the city free of charge.

Dr. Hamdy Hassan (picture), th..

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in remarks published on Wednesday there was no need to appoint a vice president, suggesting he will leave open the post from which both he and his predecessor becam..

More than 4,000 people gathered around Cleopatra Hospital in Heliopolis, Cairo in the second week of May 2006; many thousands more sent encouraging telegrams and made phone calls. All was in the cause of displaying solidarity with and admiration for … a judge. His sudden ascendancy in popular esteem is symptomatic both of the convulsive energy and the strategic crisis of Egypt’s political and c..