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Release orders for 5 MB and renewals for 5 more

Prosecutions in Damietta and Daqahleya have issued release orders for the 5 MB bookstore owners who were arrested over the weekend...

Security forces raid businesses owned by potential MB candidates in Kafr el Sheikh

State security has wasted no time in applying their unjust measures against political opposition...

MB: Regime incapable of engaging in honest competition

The arrest and transportation to unknown destinations of 11 Muslim Brotherhood members in Alexandria has triggered wide condemnations and abhorrence in Egypt...

Jordan’s government faces little challenge with MB offshoot’s absence

According to the Jordanian Interior Ministry more than 800 candidates have registered to run in the Jordanian parliamentary election slated for November...

Three men sustain bruises, fractures during IOF attack in Al-Khalil

-- Three Palestinians were injured and one of them arrested after a brutal assault by Israeli soldiers in the Al-Tawana region south of Yatta, Al-Khalil...

Palestinian child injured in Silwan confrontations

-- A ten-year-old Palestinian child was hit with a sonic bomb in his eye and a rubber bullet in his leg during an Israeli police raid into Silwan in occupied Jerusalem on Monday night...

New U.S. military chief takes office in the West Bank

U.S. military chief in the West Bank Keith Dayton has handed over the task of training Palestinian Authority security forces to his successor Gen. Michael Moeller, several sources confirmed on Monday...

MB students rise in peaceful protests condemning interference in students’ elections

Over seven thousand students, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood movement, staged a protest on Tuesday at Tanta’s University against a decision to ban their colleagues from running in upcoming student elections...

Settlers confiscate tens of Palestinian cultivated dunums south of Nablus

Zionist settlers south of Nablus city started on Tuesday to bulldoze Palestinian cultivated lands in preparation for annexing them to their settlement of Eli, reliable sources reported...

Lawyers from 20 countries discuss charges against Israel over flotilla massacre

-- The Freedom Flotilla alliance, meeting in Geneva on Monday, announced that dozens of lawyers from more than 20 countries will meet to discuss suits filed against Israel over its May 31 attack against the Gaza-bound flotilla that ended in the death of nine activists...

Syrian Haithem Al-Maleh to receive 2010 Alkarama Award for Human Rights Defenders

Haithem Al-Maleh , prominent Syrian human rights defender and lawyer, will be the recipient of the Alkarama Award 2010 for Human Rights Defenders...

Dismissed workers stage protests demanding reimbursement

Workers from the state-owned Mahalla Textile Company, the Petotrade Company Rural Health Guides, Misr-Iran Textile Company, Ameriya Textile Company, Indorama Shebine Textile Company, Mansoura-Espagna Textile Company, and the Future Company for Pipe Production met with official from the National Council for Human Rights ...

Gov't restricts SMS messaging ahead of elections

New restrictions and regulations have been enforced by Egypt's National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) in an attempt to increase control over the SMS messaging services available by mobile phone companies and media institutions...

Hamas parliamentary bloc: Israel's nationality law is racist

-- The Hamas change and reform parliamentary bloc said that the Israeli government's approval of the nationality law is a dangerous racist decision aimed at perpetuating the idea of the Jewish state, displacing the remaining Palestinians in the 1948 occupied lands and closing the door on the right of return...

Lawyers of flotilla victims push int’l court to prosecute Israel

Lawyers representing the victims of the Freedom Flotilla, which was attacked by Israeli soldiers late last May, have filed requests to the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israel on charges of crimes against humanity...

17 more arrested in Alexandria following MB decision to run for elections

Hours before the Muslim Brotherhood announces its candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Alexandria, security forces embarked on a wide and massive campaign raiding a number of lslamist bookstores and a computer company owned by group members. Forces seized computers, documents, books and arrested the son of one of the MB leaders and 17 others...

Dubai police: A prime suspect in Mabhouh case was arrested outside UAE

Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan announced that a prime suspect in the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai on January 19 was arrested abroad, according to the UAE National newspaper...

Bahar: Amendment to Israeli citizenship law a humanitarian crime

GAZA, -- First deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Dr. Ahmed Bahar said the Israeli government’s decision to approve an amendment on its citizenship law is a “legal and humanitarian crime”...

Re-run of the MB controversial series is postponed till after the elections

According to Osama Al-Sheikh, director of the state-run Egyptian Radio and Television Union , re-runs of the controversial Muslim Brotherhood TV series "The group" aired in the month of Ramadan, will be postponed until after the country's parliamentary elections which is scheduled to take place in late November...

50 MB arrested in 7 governorates following the MB announcement of its participation in elections

The Interior Ministry began using restrictive and arbitrary measures against the Muslim Brotherhood members in most of Egypt’s governorates following the announcement of their participation in the upcoming parliamentary elections...