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Today, the Parliament discusses the urgent question lodged by the Muslim Brotherhood’s MP Muhssen Rady concerning the suspension of Afaq Arabia weekly which articulates the Brotherhood’s views. The pretext of the decision is the existing dispute over the presidency of the newspaper’s board of directors.  
 
In his question, Rady said this justification contradicts the poli..

Egyptian police detained four more members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday and a senior member of the Islamic group said the authorities had closed down a weekly newspaper which publishes its views.

Deputy leader Mohamed Habib said the detentions were part of a crackdown designed to stop demands for political reform and restore the status quo which existed before last..

 Vice President Dick Cheney delivers his remarks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Tuesday. (AP)
 
Vice President Dick Cheney told an influential pro-Israel group Tuesday that the United States will not help the Palestinians build a full-fledged state whose leaders use terror and violence.

The comment to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was ..

Egyptian security forces have rounded up a number of Muslim Brotherhood members after briefly banning the Islamist party’s mouthpiece publication, a spokesman for the Islamist movement said Wednesday.

In another setback to Egypt’s reform drive, a court sentenced a female journalist to one year in jail for libeling a judge. The move drew condemnation from Egyptian rights bodies.

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Kamal Habeeb, the coordinator of the National Initiative for the Release of Political Prisoners, stressed that the initiative persists in bringing up the issue of detainees to the Egyptian political arena. At the present time, the initiative seeks to collect million signature of Egyptian people to press for their release. Habeeb added the initiative launched a web site,

State security forces continued its vicious campaign against Muslim Brotherhood activists and sympathizers. Twenty people from all walks of life have been arrested, so far, in another episode of oppression committed by an illegitimate and corrupt regime which has been governing Egypt by iron and fire for more than a quarter of a century.

Today’s chapter of this shameful episode feature..

A recent wave of arrests of members of the Muslim Brotherhood party by Egyptian security officers reflect a shift in strategy towards the outlawed Egyptian group. More than 20 members of the Muslim Brotherhood have been arrested over the past week in a new overt crackdown against them.

 "This is a new phenomenon," said Ayman Abu Al Ghani, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was..

Human rights cannot be regional or selective: Guantanamo, Belmarsh, Laz Oghli and Facility 1391
stand or fall together

The story of Maajid Nawaz, Ian Nisbet and Reza Pankhurst, the three British Muslims who travelled to Egypt with their families, their detention there, their trial and their release now, almost four years later, encapsulates several elements in the "east-wes..

The Arab political scene is a multi-layered reality; at times a complex of contradictory dynamics, with no easy answers, writes Amr Hamzawy*

Lebanese in their thousands, top, took to the streets of Beirut in February demanding the withdrawal of Syrian troops. What is becoming a common sight in Cairo? Demonstrations for and against the government, above. Kuwaiti women, left, won the..

’Today our return to home becomes nearer than any previous time,’ the UK-based Syrian Muslim Brotherhood’s Chairman Ali Sadr el-Dean el-Bianony told Yemen-based members of his outlawed group.
 
The chairman denied any mediation or negotiation with the Syrian regime in light of Law 49 of 1980 that sentences to death whoever affiliates to the Brotherhood. El-Bianony said all reports ab..

The American-led Middle East reform and democratization campaign of the last two years has helped shape a new political reality in Egypt. Opportunities have opened up for dissent. With U.S. and European support, local opposition groups have been able to take initiative, advance their causes and extract concessions from the state. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement (MB), which has been off..

During its discussion of the National Report of Human Rights concerning the previous parliamentary polls, the Human Right Committee in the parliament opposed the interference of both Interior and Justice Ministers during elections. A number of the National Democratic Party’s MPs in the committee called for the full independency of the Higher Electoral Commission, charged to monitor the vot..

The Muslim Brotherhood, with sizable numbers in parliament for the first time, is exercising free speech so freely that some of its activists are being locked up.

Last month, all 88 members of the Islamist bloc staged a walkout from the legislature when a member was shushed for asking why a French ship laden with asbestos was allowed through the Suez Canal. A couple of weeks later, Brot..

Is Washington backtracking on efforts to democratically transform the region or simply confused, asks Amira Howeidy

Returning from his tour of the Gulf last week President Hosni Mubarak told the Egyptian editors-in-chief that had accompanied him that US secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was satisfied with the way reform and democratic transformation is being managed in Egypt.

Over the last 40 years, small groups of devout Muslim men have gathered in homes in U.S. cities to pray, memorize the Koran and discuss events of the day.

But they..

The West’s traditional suspicion of anything that could be called an Islamist movement has increased in light of recent events. In the rush to distinguish friend from foe in the Islamic world, US favor has gravitated toward the stable, secular, and overtly “friendly” regimes of the region, of which Hosni Mubarak’s Egyptian government is probably the best example. There has always been a tendenc..