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

According to government officials the recent crackdown on independent media outlets stems from what it describes as its efforts to regulate unauthorized channels and not politically motivated.

A recent commentary titled “U.S.–Egyptian Relations on the Eve of Egypt’s Elections” by Michele Dunne senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and editor of the online journal,

Judge Abdul Aziz Omar, Chairman of Cairo's Appeal Court and President of the Higher Committee for the elections, has listed November 20 to try veteran journalist Hamdy Kandil before Giza’s

Deep resentment was expressed by The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information condemning the successive decisions restricting media freedoms in Egypt prior to the forthcoming public elections.

In his weekly message titled "Our forces, they surely must conquer”, the Muslim Brotherhood chairman, Dr. Mohamed Badie underlined the significance of reestablishing freedom in Egypt .

Users of Ikhwanonline, the Muslim Brotherhood's official Arabic website, participated in a survey concerning the State of Emergency in Egypt .

The Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights submitted a complaint to the Attorney General and the Prosecutor General of Qena Prosecutions.