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Egyptian security forces recently launched a massive drive against leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, since group-related students gave a military style rally in the Azhar University a few months ago [AWR, week 51, 2006, article 26]. Members of the group say that the crackdown aims at removing the...
The Muslim Brotherhood has been suffering from the massive state drive to detain senior leaders and subscribers of the group. This started when students connected with the group initiated a parade at the Azhar University, which the state saw as demonstration of the group’s force toward the...
The article provides an overlook of the progression of human rights in Egypt. It reviews the first term of the National Council for Human Rights and questions if its efforts are being felt by Egyptians.
Some preachers came out of the blue and gave themselves the right and authority to passjudgment against well-known Muslim scholars solely because of the fact that theydisagreed with their opinions. The writer condemned these preachers, and their demands to shed Muslim blood over a disagreement...
Egypt was angry about the stormy reactions that broke following the sentence given to Saad Eddin Ibrahim. The ruling renewed tension between Egypt and the U.S., which considers Ibrahim an American human rights activist. It condemned the ruling and started a new verbal war against the Cairo...
The US Commission for International Religious Freedom refused to issue a report about its visit to Israel, which aimed at investigating the religious situation there. The Secretary General of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights considered this evidence of using the file of religious...
The State Security Supreme Court decided to postpone the trial of Saad Eddin Ibrahim to the 19th of the coming month. Lawyer Abdel Haleem Mandour, who defends the fifth and sixth defendants and known for being an Islamist, said that he will not only defend his clients but all the defendants,...
The American delegation investigating religious freedoms in Egypt started its meetings with Egyptian prominent religious and public figures. The delegation’s visit to Egypt is receiving wide criticism by almost all Egyptian organisations, intellectuals, and political parties.
The general counselor of the Brotherhood does not believe the government responded to their success in the recent parliamentary elections through the severe and unjustified verdict of the Military Court in the case of professional syndicates. Two Egyptian human rights organizations requested...
Last Thursday, 10th of August, the jailed professor of sociology and head of the Ibn Khaldoun center, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, was released on bail of 10,000 L.E (2,857 US dollars) following a decision made by the general attorney of the state security department, Hisham Saraya.

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