Security services in Qena released 2 Muslim Brotherhood detainees after the Criminal Court in Qena ordered their release.

According to official sources, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has set Sunday November 28 for the country’s parliamentary elections. Run-offs are scheduled for December 5.

Members of the National Democratic Party in the Egyptian constituency of Ismailia asserted that they would vote for the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Dr. Hamdy Ismail in the upcoming parliamentary election

As dawn breaks Egypt 's MB faced further crackdowns as security forces raided and ransacked the houses of 3 MB leaders in Sharqiya and four in Qalyubiya.

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

According to Abdul Monem Abdul Maqsoud the latest count has revealed that 154 MB members including 23 students have been arrested in just one week following the group's announcement that

International observers are for newly independent states without the institutions needed to run elections--unlike Egypt--according to Moqbel Shaker, Vice Chairman of Egypt’s National Human Rights Commission.

In another violation of the constitution and the law, state security engaged in a ransacking frenzy this time in Alexandria.

The massive campaign targeting MB leaders directly followed the MB chairman Dr. Mohamed Badie’s announcement over the weekend that the group would take part in the parliamentary elections slated for

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