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Muslim Brotherhood expands westward

When Egyptian school teacher Hassan al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 to teach his fellow Egyptians how to re-discover their Muslim identity and fight British control, he probably never

The Situation of Human Rights in Egypt 2009: Introduction, summary and recommendations

Issuing the 20th annual report of EOHR of 2009 comes in the light of a political environment not different from the previous years. Violations still committed against human rights. They

MB detainees allege prison abuse and injustice

MB detainees in Borg El-Arab prison have faced much discrimination and human rights violation. The detainees who were arrested during protests supporting Aqsa Mosque have filed a complaint to the

Egyptian prisons lack of medical care leads to serious risk of death for numerous detainees

Egyptian prisons are notorious for their bad conditions of detention, the widespread practice of torture and the arbitrary nature of the detention of many of their inmates.

Egypt: Magdy Hamdy Sakr, denied medical care inside prison, life in danger

The State of Emergency law is often used by the Egyptian security services as a pretext for arbitrary arrests of dissident groups or those believed to be members of such

The charade continues with extended detentions, unusual release orders and a change of heart.

The Alexandria Criminal court supported the decision made earlier by the Misdemeanors' court to release 11 Muslim Brotherhood detainees earlier today

Abu Zuhri family reject Egyptian report on death of Yousef

The Abu Zuhri family refused to accept the Egyptian general prosecution's report on the death of Yousef Abu Zuhri in Egyptian jails that said he died of natural causes.