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Egypt bans social gathering of opposition Muslim Brotherhood

MB press release] of the Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] as part of its crackdown on opposition to the Egyptian government, a Brotherhood official said Sunday.

Rights groups accuse Egypt of limiting press freedoms after court jails editors

Ibrahim Issa, editor of Al Dustour; Adel Hammouda, editor of Al-Fagr [media websites]; Wael Al-Abrashi, editor of the independent newspaper Sawt Al-Umma; and Abdel-Halim Qandil, former editor of Al-Karama,

Egyptian editors jailed for defaming Mubarak

Four outspoken Egyptian newspaper editors have been sentenced to a year in prison and fined for defaming President Hosni Mubarak and his son Gamal, who is widely expected to succeed

Commentary: We know what Hamas rejects – but do we know what they want?

there is no need for supporters of Palestine to become partisans of Fatah. However, important choices need to be made, and there are serious consequences to words and deeds.

10 Aswan MB Leaders Arrested

Security forces at the Upper Egyptian governorate of Aswan arrested on Monday at dawn 10 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members in the governorate.

2 Students Arrested After Minister of Higher Education’s Al Fayyum University Visit

Immediately after the visit of the Minister of Higher Education to Al Fayyum university, two students were arrested at the gate of university,

Al Fayyum Police Torture Citizen to Death, Families Refuses to Take Body

The family of the man who was tortured to death by Al Fayyum policemen refused to take his body until they see the forensic medicine report

The POMED Wire, Upcoming Events

Check out POMED’s Event Calendar to see a list of events in the D.C. area relevant to democratic reform, U.S. foreign policy, and the Middle East. Tue, Sep 25, 2007

Four newspaper editors sentenced to a year’s labour for libelling president and ruling party

A Cairo criminal court yesterday sentenced four newspaper editors to a year’s forced labour and the maximum possible fine of 20,000 Egyptian pounds (2,600 euros)

Blogging consequences

Egyptian blogger Abdel Monem Mahmoud was arrested in April 2007 for things written in his blog. Monem, for whom a campaign has been taken up at [1] is a member