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Human Rights July 25, 2009

Solidarity for Bloggers, Aboul Fotouh curtailed by Egypt security forces

There was no violence, but the police presence highlighted the pressure being put on the Brotherhood in recent months. As soon as the Brotherhood leaders arrived, plainclothes thugs began pushing
Human RightsPrisoners of Conscience July 25, 2009

12 MB arrested in Alexandria raid

The Muslim Brotherhood reported late on Saturday that at least 12 members were arrested in a dawn raid on Friday in the northern city of Alexandria. According to the banned
Human RightsPrisoners of Conscience July 25, 2009

Torture: A strategy of Egypt’s police force.

The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), in the context of their joint program, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders,
Human RightsMB News July 25, 2009

15 days detention for nine MB’s from Sharquia

The Zagazig prosecution renewed the detention of nine Muslim Brotherhood members from Al-Sharqia Governorate for a further fifteen days on charges of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. The Zagazig
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine July 25, 2009

Palestinian MPs: Netanyahu’s conditions prove futility of PA-Israeli negotiation

Palestinian lawmaker Ibrahim Abu Salem of Hamas’s parliamentary bloc in the Palestinian legislature has derided the conditions put forward by Israeli premier Binyamin Netanyahu to make "peace" with the Palestinians.
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine July 25, 2009

Zaidan: The world should move against Israel’s measures in Jerusalem

Palestinian lawmaker and former minister Abdul Rahman Zaidan has called on the Arab and Muslim worlds as well as the international community to take decisive measures against the heinous Israeli
ActivitesHuman RightsTorture July 25, 2009

Challenges to Human Security in Arab Countries

David Yang, coordinator of the UNDP Washington Roundtable invites Digest readers to check out next week’s special session of the UNDP Washington Roundtable: the U.S. launch of the Arab Human
ActivitesHuman RightsMB in International press July 25, 2009

IN FOCUS: Mubarak Regime and Brotherhood: Zero-Sum Game

The Egyptian regime has succeeded in scaring the society from and neutralizing it regarding the Muslim Brotherhood. But at the same time it did not succeed in eradicating the Brotherhood
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine July 25, 2009

The system’s challengers

Representations of the Middle East as changeless, frozen-in-time and regressive have crowded mainstream Western media for years owing to the region’s high frequency of despotism and religious fundamentalism. But the
ActivitesHuman RightsTorture July 25, 2009

If Only the Uighurs Were Buddhist and China Was Israel

Pity the Uighurs -- the wrong kind of minority, the wrong kind of Muslims, fighting the wrong kind of enemy.