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India high court restores ban on Muslim student group
The Supreme Court of India temporarily reinstated a government ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) on Wednesday, reversing the holding of the Delhi High Court , which had just lifted the ban on Tuesday. The lower co (More) |
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Egypt detains 39 Muslim Brotherhood members
Egyptian police arrested 39 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood (MB) [party website; FAS backgrounder] on Monday, including three local party leaders in the city of Kafr El Sheikh, according to an MB statement . The group has accused the (More) |
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The Last Extension of Emergency Law in Egypt?
JURIST Guest Columnist Tamir Moustafa of Simon Fraser University in Canada says that although the Egyptian government's recent extension of the emergency law may be the last in a string of renewals over the past half-century, this does not have p (More) |
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Egypt's extension of emergency law means continued rights violations
Bill Van Esveld [Arthur Helton Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch]: "The Egyptian government has extended for two more years Law 162 of 1958 that authorizes prolonged detention without charge and severe limitations (More) |
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Egypt court silent on charges for convicted Muslim Brotherhood members: lawyers
An Egyptian military court has yet to release details of the charges on which 25 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] were convicted and sentenced Tuesday, a lawyer for the Brotherhood told Reuters Thursday. In (More) |
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Egypt military court sentences 25 Muslim Brotherhood members to prison
An Egyptian military court handed down its final verdict Tuesday in the military trial of 40 senior members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder], sentencing 25 of the accused to prison time and acquitting 15 others. Th (More) |
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Egypt prosecutors charge opposition leader with inciting violence
Egyptian prosecutors Thursday charged the co-founder of pro-reform opposition movement Kifaya with inciting unrest and violence in association with a nationwide labor strike last Sunday. George Ishaq and 60 other members of the Kifaya movement were (More) |
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Muslim Brotherhood urges boycott of Egypt municipal elections after activist arrests
Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] Monday announced that it would boycott municipal elections [MP statement; press release] set for April 8, saying that the government has continuously blocked the group's (More) |
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Egypt prosecutor investigating Muslim Brotherhood alleged role in riots
The Egyptian state prosecutor ordered an investigation Wednesday into accusations that 147 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] caused riots during unauthorized protests on Tuesday against the government for (More) |
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Egypt arrests Muslim Brotherhood members for posting campaign fliers
Egyptian security forces Tuesday arrested five members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] as they were posting campaign fliers on behalf of Muslim Brotherhood candidates slated to run in local council elections sc (More) |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying
On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death after a treason trial in which they were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Learn more about the Rosenberg trial.
