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Brothers Tread Cautiously
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On the cusp of winning a parliamentary majority, the Muslim Brotherhood's survival as Egypt's leading political force will hinge on how they address the legacy of Mubarak's three decades in power. This should be a time for the Muslim Brotherhood to savour their election victory. The final results of the parliamentary elections that ended yesterday will determine whether or not its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), secures a majority, i.e., half the People's Assembly seats plus one. Currently hovering around forty-nine percent of the total the Brothers - banned and persecuted for decades - have emerged as Egypt's dominant political force. But the ...
Keep Reading »Activist Abou Doma Denies Attacking Army, Allowed to Attend Exams
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Member of Youth for Justice and Freedom Movement detained for thirty days on charges of inciting violence against army during last month's Cairo clashes. Egyptian authorities have detained political activist Ahmed Abou Doma on charges of inciting violence against the army and encouraging attacks on public property during clashes in central Cairo in mid-December. The defendant was arrested on the order of judges Wageeh El-Shaeer and Wagdy Abdel Azim, both commissioned by the Ministry of Justice to investigate the battle between protesters and security forces in front of Egypt's Cabinet offices last month. Abou Doma, a member of the Youth for Justice and Freedom ...
Keep Reading »Islamist "Morality Police" to Train Volunteers in Using Electric Batons
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A controversial hardliner group in Egypt announces that it purchased 1000 tazers to help its cadre defend themselves as they 'promote virtue' on the country's streets. The self-proclaimed islamist "Morality Police" announced on its new official Facebook page that it has acquired 1,000 tazers to be distributed to volunteers who will promote "virtue" and combat "vice" in the Egyptian street. The "Morality Police", which models itself on a similar group in Saudi Arabia that monitors citizens social behaviour, added in its announcement that these electric shocks batons will help in self-defence against any possible attacks on ...
Keep Reading »Third-round Parliamentary Run-Offs Wrap Up in Nine Governorates
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The third and final round of Egypt's first post-revolution elections draw to close Wednesday amid scattered reports of irregularities. Third-round run-off elections in Egypt’s first post-Mubarak parliamentary polls were held for the second and final day on Wednesday. According to midday reports, polling stations in several governorates had seen a relatively low turnout. Runoffs are currently being held in nine Egyptian governorates (Qalioubiya, Gharbiya, Dakhaliya, North and South Sinai, Marsa Matrouh, Minya, New Valley and Qena), in which eighty-six candidates are vying for forty-three seats in the People’s Assembly (the lower house of Egypt’s parliament). Thirty ...
Keep Reading »Ayman Nour Questioned Over Role in Cabinet Clashes
Presidential hopeful arrives at court Tuesday to answer charges of inciting December's violent clashes outside Cabinet building. Would-be presidential contender Ayman Nour arrived at a courtroom in New Cairo on Tuesday where he will be questioned about his role in last month’s violent clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces near the Egyptian Cabinet building in downtown Cairo Nour has been accused of inciting the 16 December clashes, which resulted in the death of at least 18 protesters. Before entering the courtroom, Nour told reporters that he was prepared to face “any accusations” levelled against ...
Keep Reading »Muslim Brotherhood Met with Mubarak After His Ouster, Claims Newspaper
MB spokesperson threatens legal action after newspaper editor-in-chief says Muslim Brotherhood leaders met with the former president to assure him they would not dispute the verdict if the court finds him innocent. n its first issue, published Tuesday, the new independent weekly newspaper named “Veto” claimed Muslim Brotherhood (MB) General Guide Mohamed Badei had recently met with ousted president Hosni Mubarak. MB spokesperson Mahmoud Ghuzlan denied the allegations telling ONTV program “Akher Kalam” late Monday that these claims were aimed at affecting the results of the third round of elections. Ghuzlan told the program hosted by television presenter ...
Keep Reading »Revolutionary Figures Remain Targets for Military
Five prominent revolutionaries face serious legal charges as tensions escalate between Egypt's activist community and ruling military. As recent events have shown, Egyptian personalities that have become symbols of the Egyptian revolution are now becoming targets for legal prosecution. So far, at least five prominent revolutionary figures have been formally charged with crimes in cases linked to recent escalations between anti-government protesters and security forces. Prominent blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah (@alaa on Twitter) was among the first to have his name included among the accused. Abdel-Fattah was detained pending investigation after a journalist for Al-Wafd ...
Keep Reading »Revolutionary Preacher and Activist Summoned for Investigation on Cabinet Clampdown
Prominent revolutionary Muslim preacher and rights lawyer will be interrogated on allegations of inciting violence in December. The sheikh of Omar Makram Mosque located on Tahrir Square, Mazhar Shahin, known as the “Tahrir preacher”, and prominent activist Nawara Negm have been summoned by prosecutors in relation to bloody clashes in December following a clampdown on a sit-in at the nearby Cabinet headquarters. Investigating judges reportedly received complaints that Shahin and Negm, along with rights lawyer Taher El-Kholy, took part in “inciting violence among peaceful protesters to clash with the army forces”. Hundreds of protesters had staged a sit-in at the ...
Keep Reading »Rights Group to Sue Ganzouri, 50 ex-Egyptian Ministers Over Corrupt Privatization
Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights to sue current prime minister and others for corrupt sell-off of state assets. The head of the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR), Khaled Ali, and political activist Hamdi Fakhrany have announced their intention to open legal proceedings against around fifty former and serving ministers following the Administrative Court's ruling on the corrupt privatisation of Egyptian state firms. Egypt’s current Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzouri, who also served in the post between 1996 and 1999, heads the list of ministers indicted in the lawsuit. According to a statement issued by the ECESR, Ali ...
Keep Reading »Ayman Nour Believes Military Summoning a Revenge Tactic
Presidential hopeful Nour denies being involved in last month's clashes, claiming prosecution's summons is political retribution for filing a complaint against Egypt's ruling military council. Presidential hopeful Ayman Nour, founder of the liberal Ghad Al-Thawra (‘The Revolution’s Tomorrow’) Party, responded to allegations by eyewitnesses of last month’s Cabinet clashes, fingering him for inciting the violence, by claiming that the accusations were politically motivated Though he has not received any official documents summoning him for questioning, it has been made public that a testimony made by one of those arrested during the clashes alleged that Nour encouraged ...
Keep Reading »Brotherhood's Essam El-Erian: We Will Not Exclude Any Force From Drafting New Constitution
Freedom and Justice Party officials assure that the new constitution will be drafted in consensus with all forces in Egypt. The deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, Essam El-Erian, has told the daily Al-Hayat newspaper that high voter turnout rates in Egypt’s first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections are a great success for the country, and that the elections were free from fraud. He added that the Muslim Brotherhood has respect for all voters and will work together with all forces in society to draft the new constitution. It will not monopolise the decision making process. El-Erian assured that the constitutional committee that will ...
Keep Reading »Voter Turnout Reaches Sixty-Two Percent in Third and Last Round of Egypt's Lower House Elections
The Muslim Brotherhood features prominently in this week's run-offs. Head of Egypt's Supreme Electoral Commission Abdel-Moez Ibrahim announced during a press conference Saturday evening that voter turnout during the third round of the People’s Assembly (parliament’s lower house) elections was around sixty-two percent. Over fourteen million people were eligible to vote in the nine governorates There will be a run-off round for individual seats in all of the nine governorates. The Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, who have won the most seats in the past two rounds, will contest seats in the governorates of Qalioubiya, Gharbiya, ...
Keep Reading »Free Egyptians Deny Reported Coalition with Salafist Al-Nour Party
Leading secularist party says it has no plans to enter into an alliance with hardline Islamists to check the Brotherhood's influence in parliament. The Free Egyptians Party has denied building a new coalition after the conclusion of Egypt's first three phases of parliamentary elections. The party, founded by telecommunications mogul Naguib Sawiris, was the leading player of the liberal Egyptian Bloc during elections for the lower house of parliament in December and January. The bloc, which included ...
Keep Reading »Revolutionary Activists Take Fight into Cyberspace
Battle is joined in ongoing e-war between Egypt's revolutionary activists and their ostensible adversaries. Outspoken writer and political activist Nawara Negm’s email, Facebook and Twitter accounts were reportedly hacked last week, when unknown perpetrators commandeered her two Twitter accounts – @NawaraNegm and Oshaokhtmeligi – on which they posted insulting tweets. Negm is known for her vocal criticisms of public figures for their respective positions on Egypt’s revolution. Negm’s previous targets ...
Keep Reading »Al-Azhar Calls for SCAF to Handover Power 'Without Delay'
Egypt’s official religious authority launches initiative to bring key political and religious figures together to discuss "completing the revolution’s goals." The handover of power from the military must happen “on schedule and without delay” and the current trials of former regime officials must be accelerated, said Al-Azhar at a meeting hosted by the Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb, on Wednesday. The statement comes as a conclusion to a national dialogue conference run by Al-Azhar, the leading ...
Keep Reading »SCAF’s Advisory Council Lobbying for 'Constitution First' Resolve
The military's appointed advisory council encourages political parties to promote drafting the constitution before holding presidential elections, contrary to a revolutionary initiative to have elections in January. “Consensus has to be reached between political forces on the issue of drafting the new constitution before holding presidential elections. It is not a sound resolution to elect a president without a constitution to define his powers,” announced Mohamed El-Kholy, spokesman of the military ...
Keep Reading »Islamist Lawyer Charges Billionaire Sawiris with Illicit Gains
Beleaguered Coptic business tycoon and liberal icon Naguib Sawiris accused by Islamic fundamentalist attorney of profiting from close association with ousted Mubarak regime. Ali Ismail, a lawyer for Egyptian Islamist movement Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya, has lodged a complaint against Coptic-Christian billionaire Naguib Sawiris with Egypt’s Illicit Gains Authority, accusing the high-profile businessman of the illegal acquisition of wealth. Ismail charges Sawiris with ...
Keep Reading »SCAF's Violations Resemble Mubarak's Abuses: Amnesty Report
The rights group's report on Arab Spring says the ruling military council in Egypt has fallen far short of satisfying the people's hopes; some council's violations are worse than during the days under the ousted dictator. Amnesty International’s 2011 Middle East report, Year of Rebellion: State of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa, released Monday 9 January 2012, in its chapter on Egypt sheds light on the violations committed by the ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) since they ...
Keep Reading »Free Egyptians Party Announces Boycott of Upper House Elections
In a press conference the liberal party announces that it will boycott the upper house elections and calls the vote "a waste of time." The Free Egyptians party has announced on Monday that the party is going to boycott the upcoming upper house elections scheduled to be held from 29 January until 22 February 2012. The elections were initially scheduled to be held in three stages ending on 12 March, but the military council reduced this in December to two stages, under pressure to ...
Keep Reading »Central Cairo Prosecution Refers Naguib Sawiris to Court for Contempt of Religion
Christian businessman and founder of The Free Egyptians Party will face charges of disrespecting Islam for tweeting a controversial image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse wearing conservative Muslim attire. The Prosecution Office of Central Cairo decided to refer outspoken billionaire Naguib Sawiris to court for contempt of religion on Monday after he published a contraversial cartoon online. Islamist lawyer Mamdouh Ismail filed a complaint to the public prosecution office accusing the ...
Keep Reading »Amnesty International Slams Western Reactions Towards Arab Spring
The renowned rights group criticise the inconsistency and "double standards" of international community in their report on human rights abuses during the regional revolutions. Renowned rights group Amnesty International has published a comprehensive report on human rights in the Middle East and North Africa during 2011 including condemning the reaction of the international community, who, the report says, are looking to protect their own interests. The report titled Year of Rebellion: State ...
Keep Reading »6 April Movement Demands Protection for January Mass Protests
6 April demands protection for January mass protests. The 6 April Youth Movement (Democratic Front) has called on popular committees to be formed to secure nationwide mass protests due on 25 January, the first anniversary of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. The Democratic Front, which consists of defectors of the original 6 April Youth Movement, says the anticipated demonstrations will be completely peaceful, but stressed they have to be properly secured. The movement also voiced disgruntlement with a ...
Keep Reading »Egypt's Interior Minister Sues Journalist for 'Insulting Police'
Minister of Interior Mansour El-Eissawy sued former syndicate head and columnist Galal Aref for “insulting police” in his daily column in the Akhbar newspaper of 27 November. The minister has also called for the writer’s imprisonment. Two weeks earlier, El-Eissawy also sued Akhbar journalist Ahmed Taha Al-Naqr as well as the paper’s chairman of the board for an article run on 27 November in which the former wrote that the current police force should be replaced by another which respects law and human ...
Keep Reading »Thousands Block Railways in Upper Egypt Over NDP Election Gains
Thousands of people in the Upper Egypt governorate of Qena infuriated as ex-members of the now-defunct National Democratic Party of Hosni Mubarak suspiciously make it to the runoffs. Around ten thousand people blocked railways and the Aswan-Cairo highway in the Upper Egyptian City of Nagaa-Hammadi, Qena, late on Friday, to protest the results of the ongoing parliamentary elections in their constituency. Enraged demonstrations broke out after Abdel-Rehim Al-Ghoul, a former National Democratic Party ...
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