بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
" … we wold like our
people to know also that we love them more than ourselves and that we wish to
sacrifice our souls for their honour, glory, dignity, religion and their
aspirations, we work for people only for God's sake more than we work for
ourselves; we are for- our belover brothers- and we will never be against
you".
Imam Hassan Al Banna.
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Egyptian Gov't Detains
81 MB Members For 15 Days
81 Muslim Brotherhood members and
leaders, who were arrested in Thursday Feb. 15 sweeps, appeared before the
Higher State Security Prosecution that ordered sending them to jail for 15 days
pending investigation on charges of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood group
and inciting the public opinion against the regime.
This group has been arrested on Thursday at dawn, the biggest since 180
Muslim Brotherhood members and leaders were arrested last December .
Observers point out that this fierce attack against the Muslim
Brotherhood is an attempt to curb the group's role and activities ahead of the
Shura Council elections next April and in order to pass the constitutional
amendments that curb freedoms and to more steam to the file of Tawreeth (the
heridatory transfere of power from Mubarak Sr. to Mubarak Jr.).
This latest crackdown raises to 300 the number of Muslim Brotherhood
detainees in only two months.
The following is
a list of the detainees:
In
-Doctor
Gamal Abdul Salam (Secretary-General of relief committee in Arab Doctors'
-Omar
Abdullah (a coordinator of anti-sequestration group of engineers, civil
engineer)
-Dr. Amr Al
Harishi (Gynecologist)
-
-Accountant
Mohamed Hassan (the office manager of Mr. Mohammedi Abdul Maqsood, a Muslim
Brotherhood member of parliament for Helwan)
-Mohamed
Beltagi (the office manager of Ali Fath Al Bab, a Muslim Brotherhood member of
parliament for the city of 15 May.
-Reda Fahmi .
-Samir Al
Nagar (from Al-Zawya Al-Hamra).
-Mostafa
Abu Taleb (Office manager of Muslim Brotherhood member of Parliament Hazem
Farouk).
In
-Dr. Hassan
Al-Bronse ( a professor at the Faculty of Medicine,
-Dr.
Tawakul Massoud ( a Muslim Brotherhood candidate in 2005 legislative electrons
for Dikheila)
-Mr. Fouad
Elwan ( Al Medina Al Monawara school principal )
-Salah
Madani (The office manager Mr. Mostafa Mohamed a Muslim Brotherhood Member of
parliament)
-Mohamed
Mabrouk (teacher)
-Eng.
Hossam Refaat (engineer at oil company)
-Adel Hefni
( free businessman)
-Abu Zeid
Mohamed (accountant )
-Alaa
Mutawe (accountant)
In
-Abdul Salam
Bashandi (Muslim Brotherhood candidate in 2005 legislative elections for
Kerdasa).
-Yahya Rizk
(from Kafr Gatati, a Sharia teacher in Al-Azhar).
-Mohamed
Ibrahim (Mazghona).
-Abdul
Nasser Abu Al Dahab .
-Ahmed
Abdul Fattah (Al-Saf)
-Hossam
Shendi .
-Ashraf
Eissa.
-
-Dr. Abdul
Magid Omran (a pharmacist at Nahia).
In Sharqiya
-Al Saadani
Ahmed Al Berri (an accountant in the bar association in Zagazig- Sharqiya)
-Ahmed
Abdul Maqsoud (ex- Teachers' Syndicate Secretary-General - Kafr Sakr)
-Sobhi Al
Ghandour (pharmacist – Zagazig)
-
-Sabri
Abdul Maqsoud (Employee in the
-Hassan
Solaiman (Electricity Authority deputy – Al-Qurein)
-Mahmoud Al
Kashef (merchant - Abu Kabeer)
-
-Dr.
Mohamed Al-Sayyed (surgeon in Kinayat hospital)
-Al-Sayyed
Arabi (instructor in the Ministry of Education)
-Refaat
Abdul Rahim (tax collector in Zagazig)
-Abdul
Nasser Abdul Fattah (a teacher in the Education Department - Abu Hammad)
-Al-Sayyed
Abdou (a real-estate tax collector- Hihia)
-Eng. Kamal
Atiya (employee at the atomic energy agency- Menia El Kameh)
-Mahmoud
Al-Waheed (public employee - Darb Nigm)
-Sayed
Abdul Magid (a teacher – Al-Ibrahimiya)
-Qanoue
Nagm Husseini (teacher – Al-Ibrahimiya)
-Dr. Ehab
Ibrahim (a professor at the
In Gharbiya:
-Hamdi
Radwan (the office manager of a Muslim Brotherhood MP and was a candidate in
the legislative elections-
-Samir Al Bishlawi (an accountant in the Education Department- Kafr Al-Zayat)
-Mahmoud
Abul Enein (owns a book store and an employee in the Salt & Soda Co.- Kafr
Al-Zayat)
-Al Sayed
Qandil (
-Abd
Al-Alim Rajab (wasn't at home during the sweep)
-Hossam
Zayed (wasn't at home during the sweep)
In Monofiya:
-Dr.
Mostafa Al-Halwani.
-Dr.
Abdullah Al Nahhas .
-Dr. Gamal
Khalifa .
-Dr. Fathi
Tawfik .
-
-
-Ashraf Alamudin
(Shama Ashmun).
-Dr. Ahmed
Shahin (Birket El-Sab).
In Al
Fayyum:
-Mostafa
Atiya Mohamed (accountant)
-
-Ahmed
Ibrahim Bayyoumi (accountant)
-Dr.Ahmed
Fouad Beltagi
-
-Mohamed
Radwan (accountant)
-Mahmoud Sayed
Abdul Razek (teacher)
-Ayman
Qorani Mohamed (court employee)
-Mohamed
Hashem (Applied syndicate Secretary-General)
-Azmi Ahmed
Abdul Tawwab (Imam of a mosque)
In
Al-Qalyubia:
-Hani Arabi
(Kafr Shukr).
-Hamada Abu
Zeid (Kafr Shukr).
In Behera:
-Mohamed
Abdul Fattah Shatat (a Muslim Brotherhood candidate in 2005 legislative
elections for Wadi Al-Natrun
constituency.
-Al Shafie Mohamed Bayyoumi Al Banna (Abu Elmatamir center).
-Atef Ahmed
Abdullah.
-Mohamed
Ahmed Gomaah .
-Masri Saad
Masri Kusheik
-Shaban
Ragab Fathallah Nawar.
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Gov't Places Seriously
Ill MB Leader
Under House Arrest
The state security forces placed Adel
Abdullah, a Muslim Brotherhood leader in Helwan, south of
A security force arrested Adel Abdullah as part of Thursday sweep that
included 78 Muslim Brotherhood leaders nationwide.
Adel Abdullah was bedridden after having a serious surgery that made
him unable to move. Instead of leaving him to recover, they have imposed a
house arrest on him since
The detentions are a part of an ongoing crackdown against the Muslim
Brotherhood in order to prevent it from running for the elections Shura Council
(upper chamber of Parliament) scheduled in April and to pass the notorious
constitutional amendments proposed by president Mubarak.
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Rights
Organizations Condemn
Military
Tribunals For MB
A number of human rights organizations expressed their
complete rejection to referring Khairat Al Shater and other Muslim Brotherhood
leaders to the military courts and considered this as a serious violation to
the right of having a fair trial which is guaranteed by the constitution and
international human rights covenants.
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights and the
The statement pointed out that the military courts violate
many guarantees which are necessary for having a fair trial like: violating the
defendant's right to prepare his defense, violating the defense right in
knowing the case files and meeting clients privately, and not taking into
consideration torturing the defendants; add to this that the military courts are
exceptional courts for civilians, because their rulings can't be challenged in
front of any other court, and their rulings aren't supervised by any higher
Court to observes the right application of law; these rulings are only ratified
by the president who is also the supreme commander of the armed forces or
any authorized military officer.
The statement demanded also repealing the state of
emergency which is imposed since 1981, according to which are violated the
rights and public freedoms guaranteed by the constitution and international
human rights covenants, and specially the right to appear before a fair trial.
The statement demands also including the various political powers in the fabric
of the Egyptian society and allowing them to participate in the political
process, and allowing political powers to form parties regardless of their
intellectual affiliations and allowing them to have a space in the political
landscape.
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263 Torture Cases in
Egyptian Police Stations in 6 Years
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights said that at least 263 torture cases have been detected in
Egyptian police stations during the period from 2000 to 2006, including 79
deaths which the organization believes caused by torture and maltreatment,
in addition to 10 death cases from late 2006 to early February 2007.
The organization condemned in its report the spread of torture inside
police stations and State Security Police headquarters, to the extent that
hi-tech methods are used to increase the suffering of torture victims. It
cited the example of Ehab Magdi Farouk who was tortured in Imababa police
station. The video caputring the incident appeared was posted
on the internet and the details were published in Al-Masri Al-Yom
newspaper.
The report confirmed that those committing torture aren't brought to
justice, and aren’t punished for these crimes, to the extent that torture has
become a phenomenon in
The report blamed the state of emergency, imposed in
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Abolishing
the Muslim Brotherhood: A Big Mistake
By: Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, Asharq Al-
Awsat
the general manager of Al -Arabiya
television. Mr. Al Rashed is also the former editor-in-chief of Asharq Al-
Awsat, and the leading Arabic weekly magazine, Al Majalla. He is also a senior
Columnist in the daily newspapers of Al Madina and Al Bilad. He is a
Abolishing the Muslim Brotherhood, a political, ideological,
social and economic trend is somewhat impossible even if the Egyptian president
endorses such a decision himself.
The Muslim Brotherhood is not a company whose activities can
be stopped at the order of the government; rather the movement represents an
oppositional ideology, or a number of groups of society consisting of 70
million people, characterized by dynamism and plurality. Therefore, there is no
doubt that abolishing the Muslim Brotherhood from political activity would not
stop the organization. It would weaken the position of the state in building
disciplined political trends.
One
must agree with the state’s rejection to the opportunistic methods of the
movement that exploits religion to raise money, win votes, provoke feelings and
divide society. The exploitation of religion in politics is unacceptable unless
that society accepts division based on religion. However, in the case of
The government could have codified partisanship and freed it
from the exploitation of religion, imposing conditions on membership and
opening the door to complaints whenever a violation takes place within parties.
This would support competition, alliances, and widen the circle of political
activity and reduce the role of the government in society by concentrating on
the market.
As for any attempts to abolish a historical, deep-rooted and
popular movement such as the Muslim Brotherhood, these will undoubtedly fail.
Such
a move would increase confrontation and weaken the value of political reform
that has characterized the era of President Hosni Mubarak.
The Egyptian state has a long road ahead of it to achieve
administrative development, which could push the country towards a more swift
and effective government that provides what is requested.
Planners and advisors of the presidency are presented with
an opportunity to provide fresh ideas to attract the opposition such as the
Muslim Brotherhood and independent leftists, and grant them the chance to work
and participate rather than constricting and pursuing them. This is if
authority, represented by the leadership, really wants success for itself,
which is success for the entire country.
However, if the leadership believes that it can monopolize
all of authority and the political arena, then I must say that it is too late.
President Mubarak has begun the project of political openness and has opened
the door to parties and freedoms. It is too late to go back to the days of
Jamal Abd-Nasser when the arena was divided between those in power and those in
prison.
The idea of returning to the era of the single-party was
abolished by President Mubarak and it is not possible to go back on this.
Furthermore, he is the one who gave the Muslim Brotherhood a chance, yet it
abused the opportunity with its insistence on dividing society into the Muslim
Brotherhood on one hand and infidel others on the other hand.
The situation in
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Profiles of MB Members
Refered to Military Tribunals
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The following are profiles
of figures transferred according to an unjust decision to the military
tribunals by the autocratic regime of president Hosni Mubabrak.
The profiles include
personal information and academic achievements of these prominent figures.
Dr. Essam Hashish:
Professor at the Faculty of
Engineering,
Age: 57 years
He has 7 children, 7
grandchildren
He was born in a village in
Gharbiya (north of
His father was an imam of a
mosque.
He was had the 12th
highest standing nationwide in the High School Diploma.
He joined the faculty of
engineering and received many certificates of superiority during various
stages.
Memorized all chapters of
the Quran while he was in prison in 1981, in the first detention after Sadat
was assassinated.
He was detained for 13
months in 1981.
He was rearrested in 1995 on
Al-Wasat (Centre) Party case for about 4 month and was acquitted.
His wife is Dr. Samira
Mohamed Ahmed ·
His children:
-Khadiga: a assistant
professor at Al-Qasr Al-Aini faculty of medicine (she has three children).
-Fatma: Graduate from the
Faculty of Commerce - married
-Abdullah- Graduate from the
Faculty of Engineering and is married to the daughter of Dr. Hisham Al Souli, a
Muslim Brotherhood leader in Ismailia who was arrested for three years in the
military tribunal of the syndicate leaders .
-Aisha- Graduate from the
Faculty of Applied Arts-married
-Mohamed- computer institute
graduate
-Zeinab- Graduate from the
Faculty of Commerce (English Dept
Hagar- First year student in
the Faculty of Commerce (English Dept
Hassan Ezzuddin Youssef
Malek:
He was born on 20 - 8-1958
Postal address: 15 Abu
Dawoud Al-Zaheri st.-
His father was a successful
businessman and owned factories for textile and ready-made clothes.
His family includes
well-known merchants and manufacturers.
He started his practical
life before his graduation with his father; he graduated from the Faculty of
Commerce in 1980.
Salsabeal, the Biggest Computer Company in 1990s
He has established trade
companies since 1983, the most famous was Salsabeal, the then biggest software
and IT company.
In 1992, after Salsabeal
became very famous, a fake case was fabricated and accordingly the company was
shut down and more than 200 workers in the company became jobless because of
the government's tyrant action.
He was thrown behind bars
for a full year pending trial without directing any charge against him, except
the reports of the State Security Police that had the same charges and weren't
given to the court.
After he was released, he started again his business and established
several companies that became the most famous in
His businesses include more
than 500 employees.
Meeting Trade Minister
Rashid
He started negotiations to bring
foreign, including Turkish, industrial investments to Egypt; he signed a
contract for establishing a big factory for furniture in partnership with the
most famous international furniture companies; he had a meeting with the
Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Rashid Mohamed Rashid and the Turkish
delegation to sign the factory contract, one week before arresting him. The
government tyrant decision of arresting him led to wasting investments up to
millions of dollars.
Denied Pilgrimage
When Hassan Malek was going
with his family to perform pilgrimage this year, he was prevented from
traveling. His family was forced to go alone to
Family:
He is married to Mrs. Gihan
Eliwa a graduate from the faculty of commerce, a housewife.
He has seven children:
Moaaz 22 years- born on
Khadiga 21 years- born on
Omar- 21 years- a student at
the
Hamza- 20 years- a student
at the
Ahmed- 16 years- a student
in the High School Diploma- born on
Anas- 11 years- born on
Aisha-10 years- born on
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