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Urgent meeting to move Federation of Arab Engineers from Egypt

Amid overwhelming rejection the Secretariat of the Federation of Arab Engineers will convene an urgent meeting on Friday morning to discuss the possibility of moving the headquarters of the federation

Arrest of 8 MB Members from Kom Hamada

The State Security Services launched a raids campaign on eleven houses of the MB member in Kom Hamada city in Behera governorate and its suberbs.

Brotherhood changes tack?

Considered by many a conservative academic who will avoid confrontation with the regime, Mohamed Badei, the 67-year- old newly-elected supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), used his first week

Election re-runs harvest more arrests in Daqahleya.

Egyptian security forces on Sunday January 24, detained nine Muslim Brotherhood members in the Nile Delta north of the capital as they prepared for a re-run parliament vote, security sources

Negative Citizens and a Positive Climate

The last day of the current month is the legal deadline for Egyptian citizens to register in voters’ lists, and the Interior Ministry will announce the numbers of those who

Abuse and torture or neglect by authorities a toss up of which is worse.

Human rights in Egypt continue to call on the authorities to absolutely prohibit the use of torture, without exception and without "special permits", and to pass legislation specifically outlawing and

Egypt: Ahmed Douma, student blogger, tortured during detention in Damanhour prison

Ahmed Saad Douma, a 20-year-old blogger and student at Tanta University, was arrested by State Security Intelligence (SSI -Amn Al-Dowla) at the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on

Mubarak’s virtual enemies

At 8 p.m. on October 21, approximately 60 Egyptian policemen surrounded the Nour Center in the Bab el-Shairia neighborhood of downtown Cairo

Egypt detains 10 senior Muslim Brotherhood members

Egyptian authorities have detained 10 senior members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, the group's secretary general told AFP today.

Independent judges will rain check Club’s presidential elections but will keep their eyes open.

The Judges independent movement announced that it would not nominate any candidates for the Judges Club Presidential elections which are scheduled to take place January 15, 2010.