During a trip to the Middle East this month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice served as an informal go-between for Hamas and its sworn enemy, the government of Israel, helping

Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court on Monday upheld a July 2007 decision refusing to grant medical release [JURIST report] to jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour [advocacy website; JURIST news archive].

The High Administrative Court, presided by the vice-president of State Council “Judge Essam El-Din Abdul-Aziz”, turned down a request to re-consider releasing Ayman Nour, leader of Al-Ghad Party, on health

State Security Prosecution ordered the temporary detention of Ikhwanweb Chief Editor Khaled Hamza extended for 15 more days, along with other 10 MB members.

Last week, the time period for registering candidates in Egypt’s upcoming local council elections officially came to an end. But while spokesmen for the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) have

Pakistan’s newly-elected Parliament meets on Monday, March 17, to form a new government. Monday is “democracy day” ending the eight years of military rule.

PCHR is deeply concerned over storming the headquarters of Ramattan Press Agency in Ramallah by members of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service (PSS) and the arrest of a Palestinian journalist

The Dakar based summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC)- wrapped up on Friday, adopted a new charter and denounced in its final statement Israeli attack on Gaza and

Mohamed Al Beltagi, chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood’s parliamentary bloc, denied claims that the group incites people to adopt violence in response to Egyptian government violation in the run up

Cairo Criminal Court rejected on Tuesday to hear the case of Muslim Brotherhood leaders’ frozen assets stating that the case is beyond the scop of its authroities, which means that