An election can generate just about as much tension and excitement as a good football match. And, there is tension in the air as the 2010 parliamentary elections in Egypt

The opposition Muslim Brotherhood accused the government on Monday of rigging Egypt's parliamentary election by stopping its candidates from campaigning and arresting nearly 250 of its supporters.

Security officials called on the protesting MB candidates to end their sit in parliament urging them to leave the premises.

State security forces issued a decision to quickly arrest and bring to trial 30 more MB supporters who were accompanying candidates as they made their rounds in Talkha and included

Security forces yesterday released Mohammed Abdul Baqi, a member of the MB parliamentary bloc for Talkha, Daqahliya, after being abducted by security forces during a rally for Muslim Brotherhood candidates

Next Sunday Egyptians go to the polls to choose 508 members of parliament from among 5,200 candidates. Among those standing are 380 women and 80 Coptic Christians. Sixty-four seats are

In what has come to be a disturbing pattern during the last few days' Egyptian security forces clashed yet again yesterday with a peaceful publicity campaign for the Muslim Brotherhood's

Stepping up hostilities against the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s strongest political opposition ahead of the upcoming polls Egyptian police and security forces arrested 270 of the group’s campaigners Friday as

Egypt dismissed as interference, calls to allow foreign observers to monitor the country's parliamentary elections later this month, an official said.

Egypt criticised the United States on Thursday for interfering in its affairs after Washington called for foreign monitors in this month's parliamentary elections and met with a group pressing for