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PM Sharaf claims legitimacy is drawn from the people

Egypt’s newly appointed Prime Minister Essam Sharaf was received warmly by crowds in Tahrir Square as he spoke to protesters who were celebrating the removal of Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq’s

Jurists Demand Quick Probe into Torture and Murder of 300

Jurists and politicians demanded to open an investigation into police torture that took place during the Mubarak regime, torturing more than 300 to death.

The Brotherhood – Standing Alone in a Sea of Ideologies

For years the Muslim Brotherhood has dominated poor areas of Alexandria and Cairo and now, in post-Mubarak Egypt, they are taking steps to become an official party.

Three more former ministers to be quizzed for crimes

Following growing public demand for officials to be punished Egypt's public prosecutor will investigate claims made against three additional senior former politicians.

Innocent MB deputy Al-Shater and colleagues released following years of detention

The Al Jazeera television channel issued a news release announcing that the Muslim Brotherhood’s detained deputy chairman Eng Khairat Al-Shater and Executive member businessman Hassan Malek were issued release orders

Will slow and steady win the race?

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has declared that it will form a political party -- it has settled on a name (Freedom and Justice) and asked one of its leaders (Sa`d al-Katatni)

State Security’s History of Repression and Torture

Decades of oppression and torture practiced by Security Forces from the successive regimes that ruled over Egypt for more than a hundred years, have competently failed to defend national security

AECHRIL Calls for Release of Al-Shater, Malik, Suleiman

The Arab-European Center of Human Rights and International Law (AECHRIL) in Oslo calls the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to issue a a decree granting political amnesty to all

Activists Launching an E-Campaign for Dissolving the State Security Services

A group of activists launched a campaign on “Facebook” to dissolve the State Security Services called “The National Campaign to Abolish the State Security Services”.

Former Corrupt Interior Minister Faces Charges of Murder, Incitement and Money-Laundering

Prosecution began investigating Egypt’s former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly on charges of killing demonstrators and creating lawlessness during the January 25 revolution.