The Democratic Alliance for Egypt (DAE) is planning a “preliminary paper” to be presented to the constitutional committee tasked with drafting Egypt's new constitution, said Wahid Abdel Meguid, the head of the DAE's coordinating committee. The DAE (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday issued its first strongly-worded statement against the ruling military council since the 25 January Revolution, requesting that it “meet the many promises it had given,” a declaration that some observers see as (...)
An official source has revealed that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is amending the new law on electoral constituencies, which has been condemned by various political parties and revolutionary youth coalitions for serving the (...)
Egypt's public prosecutor is conducting investigations into the mysterious death of the wife of a Saudi prince in August 2010, judicial sources said.
The sources, who asked to remain anonymous because the investigations are not public, told Al-Masry (...)
Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud, a lawyer for the Muslim Brotherhood, demanded that travel ban lists be cancelled in a memorandum to the Supreme Council of Armed Forces and Minister of Interior Mansour al-Essawy.
He said that some security members are (...)
The attorney general has ordered that the assets of 52 police officers be frozen. He also banned them from travel and charged them with profiteering, abuse of power, and having been convicted of torture.
In related news, the Cairo Court of Appeal on (...)
The Ministry of Interior on Thursday released 42 prisoners associated with Egyptian Jihadist and Salafist groups two days after the release by authorities of 109 prisoners associated with other Islamist groups.
Meanwhile, well-informed sources said (...)
Ninety-six Palestinians held in Egypt's maximum-security Al-Aqrab prison have declared a hunger strike.
Prisoners claim they were jailed without justification and demand they be released immediately.
“Some of them obtained court release orders after (...)
The Constitutional Amendments Committee is considering adding an article stipulating that the vice president should be elected and not appointed by the president.
Sources said other amendments would limit the terms of the presidency, and stipulate (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Interior released 109 political detainees belonging to Islamist groups including Salafi Jihad, al-Takfir wal-Hijra, and al-Jihad.
Prisoners from al-Aqrab, Tora, al-Este'naf and other prisons were let go after activists called for (...)
The Egyptian Supreme State Investigation Bureau is interrogating a number of Palestinians residing in Egypt on suspicions of forming a secret telecommunication network in Egypt to aid armed Islamic groups in Gaza. It remains unclear whether the (...)
Osama Mostafa Hassan Nasr, who the FBI believes has links to al-Qaeda, said he has assigned an Italian lawyer to file a lawsuit before the Italian judiciary against the Egyptian Interior Ministry.
Nasr, better known as Abu Omar al-Masri, was (...)
Over the past few days, the Ministry of Interior has released 700 members of the Muslim Brotherhood who had been arrested in 20 governorates for using religious slogans in their parliamentary election campaigns.
Their release began 48 hours after (...)
The opposition and independent blocs within Egypt's incoming parliament are set to look considerably different after 15 prominent opposition and independent MPs lost seats in Sunday's elections for the People's Assembly.
Independent/opposition (...)
Muslim Brotherhood (MB) media spokesman Dr. Mohammed Morsi revealed the Brotherhood recently brokered deals with National Democratic Party (NDP), Wafd and Tagammu candidates in various electoral districts.
Speaking to Al-Masry Al-Youm, Morsi said (...)
The North Cairo Criminal Court ruled on Thursday that the last suspect in the al-Hussein bombings should be released.
The bombing occurred near al-Azhar and the popular tourist destination of Khan al-Khalili market in February 2009. The explosion (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition group plans to field a total of 132 candidates in 28 November parliamentary elections, of whom 66 are already sitting members of parliament, leading MB member Saad al-Husseini said on Tuesday.
“We originally (...)
Twenty-two MPs affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement from eight different voting constituencies have decided not to run in 28 November parliamentary elections, according to leading MB member Saad al-Husseini.
“They arrived (...)
Egypt's high state security prosecutor ordered the release this week of a group of Shia activists detained in September for allegedly "promoting Shia doctrine."
The 12 Shia Muslims--who hail from both Arab and European countries--were also charged (...)
Egypt's State Security Investigation Office has opened investigations into 12 Shia Muslim individuals from Egypt, Morocco, Iraq and Australia arrested in September on charges of "promoting Shia doctrines and disparaging Sunni doctrines and the (...)
After seven years in jail, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman's eldest son, Mohamed, has been released from an Egyptian prison.
Security forces initially arrested Mohamed in Afghanistan after the latter had allegedly spent ten years as a member of militant (...)
The State Security Prosecution relaunched investigations into the bombings that took place in el-Azhar neighbourhood in Cairo in May 2008. The bombings left one French citizen dead and several other Egyptians injured.
The security has arrested last (...)
Security services in April arrested a group of people belonging to the "Ahmadiyya Qadiani" religious sect, an offshoot of Islam, who were found performing rituals traditionally associated with pilgrimages to Mecca in the Cairo district of Moqattam, (...)
The Supreme State Security Prosecution began an investigation on Friday into accusations that members of the Muslim Brotherhood have provided aid to the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip and met with top Hamas leaders over the past (...)
The Emergency State Security Criminal Court will review a case known widely in the media as "The International Organization," in which five Muslim Brotherhood leaders are suspected of involvement in money laundering, said the Cairo Appeals (...)