With Egypt’s parliamentary elections drawing closer, the Hosni Mubarak government has begun cracking down on the media.

The Muslim Brotherhood in Assuit has confirmed that it will field six candidates to run in the parliamentary elections including one female.

The recent announcement of MB candidates fielded to run in the elections has triggered even further arrests by state security.

The arrest and transportation to unknown destinations of 11 Muslim Brotherhood members in Alexandria has triggered wide condemnations and abhorrence in Egypt.

State security has wasted no time in applying their unjust measures against political opposition.

Prosecutions in Damietta and Daqahleya have issued release orders for the 5 MB bookstore owners who were arrested over the weekend.

Over the past few weeks there has been much discussion over whether Egypt’s most powerful opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood would contest November’s Parliamentary election.

Media Spokesmen for the Muslim Brotherhood called on Egyptian citizens from different sects, trends, national, political powers and ideologies to unite.

In a recent article for the Foreign Policy Middle East Channel, Tarek Masoud makes the provocative claim that a rigged succession from President Hosni Mubarak to his son Gamal may

According to the Middle East Report Information Project (MERIP), reports reveal that Egyptians believe that election results are fabricated and rigged with no integrity during elections.A recent report indicates that