Latest in Tag: Muslim Brotherhood Highlight
Latest in Tag: Muslim Brotherhood
94 âmiddle-rankingâ Muslim Brotherhood leaders arrested: Interior ministry
Arrests occur across Egypt, statement says
Leading Muslim Brotherhood figure dies in jail
Aqrab prison administration refused Farid Ismail treatment, Muslim Brotherhood statement says
Islamist leader Essam Derbala arrested on terrorism charges
Derbala remained committed to Anti-Coup Alliance
Abu Trika: Bridging Egyptian polarisation or signalling a shift in attitudes?
By James M. Dorsey Few are able to bridge Egypt’s deeply polarising divide between supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood, following the 2013 military coup that toppled president Mohammed Morsi. Mohammed Abu Trika, Egypt’s most celebrated and storied football player, is proving to be either the exception that proves the rule or an indication …
Abu Trikaâs appeal against freezing assets rejected
The governmental committee tasked to confiscate assets and properties of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood rejected the playerâs appeal on the grounds that it is not based on correct evidence, state media reported.
Judge survives assassination attempt in Helwan
Judge Moataz Khafaga handles Muslim Brotherhood cases, fingers point to the group for attack
Football legend Abu Trikaâs assets frozen for affiliation to âterrorism financingâ
The player appealed the decision, as all bank accounts are also frozen
Al Jazeera trial adjourned to June
The court is to listen to pleas in the next session
Activists launch campaign to release âRabaa Operations Roomâ journalists
Fourteen journalists and other media workers, including Abdullah Al-Fakharany, were given life sentences in caseâs verdict
Court sentences 5 to death in Kerdasa police killings
Judge Nagy Shehata sentenced 183 of 188 defendants to death in February in same case
Setting the stage: The 2012 Abbaseya clashes
Although the political dispute between the State and the Islamists intensified after the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, the May 2012 Abbaseya clashes count as the first main bloody confrontation between the countriesâ two political entities. In defiance of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forcesâ (SCAF) delay to hand power …
Without a hashtag: Egyptâs journalists forgotten behind bars
Last year, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) put the number of jailed journalists in Egyptâs prisons at 12 at least, calling the country one of the worldâs worst ten jailers of journalists.
Court sentences Morsi-era governor to 2 years
Judge and former governor Hassan El-Naggar was charged with protesting without police permit
Endowments minister holds Muslim Brotherhood accountable for water poisoning
Commenting during a religious forum in Abu Dhabi, Gomaa also accused Iran of imposing influence on other countries
Imprisoned Christian journalist to face blasphemy charges
Former-Muslim previously charged with âinciting sectarian strifeâ appears to be state security target
Brotherhood leaderâs wife given 6 months imprisonment in absentia
Court accepted Anas El-Beltagyâs appeal over initial ruling, but upheld for Sanaa Abdel Gawad, Mohamed El-Beltagyâs wife, in âassault on a Tora prison guardâ case
Itihadiya: A deserved sentence for a huge crime
By Khaled Okasha The crime that took place in front of and inside the Itihadiya Palace, a few months after Mohamed Morsiâs rule, raised a sort of panic and early concern for a wide number of Egyptians. Several court rulings have recently been issued against the murder of a group of peaceful protesters, as well …
Alleged âHelwan Brigadesâ member arrested
Group previously denounced âpeacefulâ measures of Muslim Brotherhood
Egypt deplores reactions to âPresidential Palaceâ verdict
US, Turkey express âconcernâ over sentencing of former president Mohamed Morsi and12 other defendants to 20 years imprisonment
Islamist entities decry ‘politicisation’ in Morsi verdict
Morsi handed first prison sentence since July 2013, supporters assert him as “legitimate presidentâ
2 children killed in Sheikh Zuweid
The victims were killed due to shelling in the area by unidentified forces
13 students arrested during clashes at Cairo University
Yahia Al-Ghozlan, son of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohmoud Al-Ghozlan, was among those arrested during Sundayâs clashes
Matariya bomb blast injures 6, several other bombs defused
Among the injured were two army conscripts, while bombs were defused near Ramses Square and Al-Shorouk
HRW tackles Egyptian judiciary for âpoliticisationâ and âdraconian sentencesâ
Rights groupâs report condemns practice of mass trials
‘Terror attacks’ in first 3 months of 2015 equal to entire 2014
Spike in attacks by militant groups remains consistent in apparent contradiction of interior ministry claims
Court adjourns Air Defence Stadium trial to 18 May
16 fans and âMuslim Brotherhood membersâ accused of rioting leading to deaths of 22 fans
Giza school burns alleged Islamist books
Books involved âincite violence and adopts Brotherhood ideologyâ, says education official
174 killed, over 600 injured in Q1 2015
North Sinai âbloodiest zoneâ in over 1,000 violent events across Egypt at beginning of 2015, says Democracy Index
Court upholds Abu Ismailâs prison sentence
Salafi preacher convicted of forging official documents to run in 2012 presidential elections
Notes from America: Muslim men and their beards
By Ahmed Tharwat âHe that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.â â William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing Facial hair in Islam is complicated, and the politics of wearing a beard brings lots of heated debate and political wrangling. Besides the religious and Shariâa …