By : IkhwanWeb : Court of First Instance at Kafr El-Sheikh has refused Wednesday the appeal filed by the lawyers of Gamal Abdul-Fattah ( ....

By : IkhwanWeb : The Muslim Brotherhood has expressed condolences over the death of prolific scholar and opposition leader Dr. Abdel Weha ....

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Forum Calls for Reformation for Legislations related to Part... The Egyptian Organization For Human Rights held a workshop in the framework of “The Egyptian Legislative Reform Forum ” supported by the European Union under the tile of “ EOHR Initiative to Reform and Modernize the Legislative System to Conform with the International Covenants for Human Rights “ on 28/6/2008 at 11:00 am in the Bar Association club in Assiut governorate . The workshop included university professors ,judges ,members of the parliament ,representatives of political parti

2	51 Protests in Egypt in one Month, says human rights center Children of Earth Center for Human Rights reported that there have been 51 protests in Egypt by workers and peasants during the last month.

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MB MP Denounces Excluding Gewedah from the SCC Alam El-Deen El-Sakhawi (member of the MB parliamentary bloc) has submitted an urgent query to the Premier and minister of Culture regarding the exclusion of outspoken poet Farouq Gewedah from the membership of the Supreme Council of Culture (SCC) after being nominated twice by the minister.

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9/11: Facts and Narratives Our challenges in the Middle East are not simply about policy; they are about narratives, and our failure to understand their importance. I was reminded of this again last week, when some relatives from Egypt were visiting for a wedding. I had mentioned 9/11 in the context of civil rights for Muslims in America.

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EGYPT: Muslim Brotherhood ’Stronger’ After Party Election CAIRO, Jul 1 (IPS) - Recent internal elections within the Muslim Brotherhood opposition movement were trumpeted in the local press as a victory for the group’s "conservative" faction over its "reformist" rivals. But according to independent commentators and a Brotherhood spokesman, media claims of a split within the movement’s ranks are unfounded.

2	Court Refuses Prosecution Appeal to Release Emad el-Din Cairo Criminal Court has refused the appeal filed by the prosecution today against the release warrant in favor of Dr. Muhammad Emad al-Deen businessman and a leading figure of the Muslim Brotherhood at al-Qalyobiah governorate.

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Rights Groups Call for Official Action against Torturing a J... Three human rights organizations have demanded Friday to punish three police officers from the Delta governorate of Beheira on charges of abusing Kamal Murad Al Fagr newspaper journalist, who exposed the complicity of a merchant and his two police sons in harassing of peasants.

2	Detention Renewed for MB Accused of Supporting Hamas Supreme State Security Court has renewed the detention of Dr. Emadu-Din; a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, veterinarian, and businessman from Qalyobiah governorate who has been detained on the charge of supporting Hamas.

2	MB Relief Activist in Custody after Release Bassam Adel, Muslim Brotherhood relief activist, has been jailed by the State Security Investigations after being released by Cairo Criminal Court last Thursday. He was denied food and clothes.

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Is the World Ready for a Black American President? "Will Americans vote for a black man?" I think I’ve been asked this question by foreigners of various origins a dozen times—or maybe three dozen times—since the U.S. presidential campaign began for real in January. Now we have the answer: Yes, Americans will vote for a black man. Which means that it is now time to turn this rather offensive question around the other way: Will foreigners accept a black American president?

2	Facebook Activists Call for Releasing Ayman Nour on Revoluti... Egyptian Facebook activists called for the release of Dr. Ayman Nour on July 23 coinciding with the celebrations of Revolution Anniversary.

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Muslim Brotherhood Columnist Arrested in Mahalla Muslim Brotherhood Columnist Arrested in Mahalla State Security Forces have kidnapped Muslim Brotherhood member and director of The Muslim Generation Schools Mohamed El Sorogy while he was passing through a checkpoint at Mahallah al-Kubra city last Thursday.

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Looking for Allies With all due respect to Joshua Muravchik (whom I know and admire) and Charles P. Szrom, their effort to identify Muslims who embrace pluralism and tolerance misses the big picture [“In Search of Moderate Muslims,” February]. There are such Muslims, to be sure, and their voices must be heard and promoted. But the authors’ focus on dissecting their authenticity is an implicit confession that Islam itself is a lost cause, and can only be changed by the people on its fringes.

2	Joel Brinkley: Bush gave Egyptians false hope CAIRO, Egypt — President Bush’s second inaugural address, in January 2005, included rhetorical flourishes that certainly brought smiles to the faces of his speech writers as he delivered them from his podium in the House of Representatives.

2	Report gov’t subsidized ration isn’t enough Recent study conducted by the Center of Information and Supporting Decision- Making at the cabinet council found that 92% of those with ration cards utilize rice and 99% utilize oil.

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Morsi: Neglecting Human Development is the Cause of Egypt’s ... Muslim Brotherhood Executive Bureau member Dr. Mohamed Morsi said Egypt’s ranking in the latest Failed States Index indicates the tragedy the country reached due to the policies of the current regime that puts human development at the end of its priorities.

2	Five Muslim Brothers Arrested for Showing Solidarity with Pa... Egyptian Security Forces arrested five Muslim Brotherhood members Thursday at Belbis city after organizing a show in solidarity with the Palestinian cause last Friday.

2	Egyptian Bloggers Condemn "Egyptian Stances" Campaign “Bloggers against NDP" condemned the government- led campaign of "Egyptian Stances" that called for a serious stance for birth control on order to solve the problems of unemployment, over population, and insufficient medical services.

2	Egyptian PM Excludes Farouq Gewedah from the SCC Dr. Ahmad Nazif the Egyptian Prime Minister, has decided to exclude outspoken poet Farouq Gewedah from running for the membership of the Supreme Council of Culture (SCC) twice within three months, Al-Masry-Alyoum Newspaper reported.

2	Prisoners of opinion in the shadow of the pyramids Reporters Without Borders is urging foreign holidaymakers planning to visit Egypt this summer to reflect about some of the harsh realities of life behind the scenes in the country of the Pharaohs.

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Ahmed El Nahhas, Another Victim of MB Military Tribunal Ikhwanweb is publishing a series of interviews that were conducted with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members who were acquitted from the most notorious military tribunal last April. After some 70 court sessions in a period of fourteen months which observers and media were not allowed to monitor, and after civil courts dropped all charges against defendants and deemed them “politically motivated” the verdict session was held in the absence of the accused and their defense panel who di

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El Katatni Reveals MB Performance in Latest Parliament Round The third round of the current 2005-2010 People’s Assembly term has been the most heated parliamentary round in the history of the Assembly, observers said. Although it started quietly but it flared up in the last month in which the government passed- through the majority of the ruling National Democratic Party- most bills starting from the child law amendments through traffic law, real-estate taxes, monopoly exercises and others.

2	Criminal Court Releases 71 Muslim Brothers East Cairo Criminal Court has passed a verdict releasing 71 leading figures of the MB who were detained prior to the latest local council elections last April.

2	Coptic Intellectual Says MB Won’t Oppress Copts Coptic intellectual Milad Hanna said Sunday the Muslim Brotherhood should be granted official recognition by the government and that it adopts tolerance towards Copts, al-mesryoon website reported him as saying.