Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
A number of imprisoned Brotherhood members attested before the prosecution that police tortured them. The accused members insisted that they could prove they were tortured in the police station. Twelve members attested that they were tortured by police in an attempt to force them to make...
Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
The Higher State Security Prosecution in Egypt renewed the prison sentence of 52 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood for fifteen days pending interrogations since they were arrested last month.
Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
The conflict between the government and the Muslim Brotherhood has escalated. Akram Abdel Hamid Al Zohari, who was imprisoned pending investigations in relation to case number 462 for year 2004, died. The Muslim Brotherhood described his death as the result of the inhuman treatment of the detained...
Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
For the first time, the Ministry of Interior announces the death of one of its detainees, Akram Al-Zohari, who had been imprisoned in Mazra’et Tura prison. The Ministry delegated a committee from the parliament to go and listen to members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Two days before Zohari ’s death,...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
The Brotherhood Supreme Guide Muhammad Akef regarded the arrest of about 60 Brotherhood members a message directed to him because he crossed red lines.
Akef called upon the government to open a dialogue with him instead of applying the policy of indirect messages.
Date of source: Sunday, June 13, 2004
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt used to use the words “Their duties are like our duties and their rights are like our rights.” to explain how they will deal with Copts if they reach power. Regardless of the eliminated phrase “whether they like it or not,” this sentence implies equality, yet there...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
In his article “The stand of the Salafist Jihad trend toward the Muslim Brotherhood,” Kamal Habib from the Salafist Jihad, discloses the alliance between the jihadic trend “the symbolic reformer of bloody Islam” and the Muslim Brotherhood and all groups that have Islamic projects. This is a...
Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
Parliamentary sources stated that the Egyptian Interrogation Authorities withdrew yesterday permission to allow a parliamentary investigation committee to visit suspended members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The committee was due to investigate claims that Brotherhood members had been tortured by...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 2004
This study aims at examining the historical events that marked the relationship of Hassan Al-Hudaiby, the second supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, to the “Tanzim Al-Ekhwan” [the organization of the Brothers] that was led by the late Sayyed Qutb. The organization was uncovered in 1965. One...
Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
I dearly appreciate what Hani Labib wrote in his book “Al-mowatna wal-Awlama: Al-Aqbat fi mogtama’ Motaghayyer” [Citizenship and Globalization: Copts in a Changing Society] at a time when many Egyptian writers, most of whom are Muslims, attempt to hit Egypt’s Arabism and dissociate it from...