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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Statement From

the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

Our group is facing a fierce campaign aiming to distort its image, frighten people and incite them against it, with the participation of official media and security services, after some of Al-Azhar University students carried out a karate and kung fu performance inside the university, something that we denounced and rejected before anybody else. These students felt they committed a mistake and issued a statement in which they apologized to their university, professors and their colleagues, and they distributed it on all newspapers and media outlets; however, most of them did not publish it, and continued their campaign of distortion against us, leading to the arrest of sixteen MB senior members, university teaching staff members and nearly 140 of Al-Azhar students and not over yet.

To avoid the media's war drums from blurring the memory of the nation, we should mention the following:

- We adopt a gradual, peaceful apparoach for reform which is based on Islam, and is concerned with building up the human being; the family; reform the society including all its political, economic, social, cultural and educational aspects, in simultaneous and interwined paths. We belive reform should be based on moral principles in all aspects of life; that's, truthfulness, honesty, fairness, integrity, sacrifice and faithfulness should be the mainstay of any activity in addition to freedom, justice, equality and truth. Therefore, we have declared that we beleive that the people must be the source of authorities and that we believe in political plurality the right to form parties, a peaceful circulation of power, integrity of elections, judicial independence, separation between powers, press freedom, and we completely rejected the use of violence and terrorism as a method to achieve political or any other targets.

- Our words have always been followed by actions; the MB contributed to ending many sectarian tensions, resisted extremism and violence, protecting tens of thousands of young men from falling in this abyss. We condemned all crimes of violence, assassination and terrorism, demanding to study its causes and treat them, seeking to realize a national reconciliation, and stopping random detentions, tortures and fake trials. We stressed on the right of civilians to appear before natural justice, respect law and court rulings, human rights. We focused our efforts to treat poverty and unemployment and achieve a social solidarity, and fighting corruption. We participated in different political activities and the people gave us their trust and elected us in syndicates, teaching staff clubs, the People's Assembly, and students unions. Instead of making the race focus on winning people's support in an honest competition; the government and unfair secularists launched a relentless campaign against us to spearate and sow seditions between us and people, this campaign consisted of the following:

1- Denying us a legal recognition, describing us as an outlawed group so that they can oppress us whenever they want, curbing our movement and activities, denying us our rights as Egyptian citizens and as a big popular and political group.

2- Using the voting bloc of the National Democratic Party- which we all know how this party won it- in enacting or extending legislations to harrass, harm and do injustice against it, like the emergency law, the law of parties, the parties committee, the parties court, the law of syndicates, press and judiciary, and others.

3- Postponing the Municipalities elections for two years to prevent the group from competing with the NDP although every one agree that the current municipalities are corrupt.

4- Stopping the elections of the professional syndicates and the teaching staff clubs in universities fearing our victory in them.

5- Rigging the elections of the Chambers of Commerce and Labour Unions after striking off our candidates and arresting others.

6- Jailing a big number of our members- nearly 25000- during the last 10 years, including high school students and elders, to the extent of that prisons wern't empty of MB members from 1992 until now.

7- Torturing a considerable number of MB members inside state security headquarters; one of them was martyred.

8- Trying more than 150 Muslim Brotherhood leaders before five martial courts and sentencing most for 3-5 years in prison without committing any crime.

9- Rigging the last People's Assembly election in a number of constituencies, and using bribes, bullying and police to beat and harrass voters and some judges to the extent of killing a number of citizens and injuring many; however, 88 Muslim Brotherhood candidates won seats, and Dr Nazif acknowledged blocking 40 other Mb candidates from winning through election rigging.

10- Using the so called national television and press in launching distortive campaigns, lies and fabrications against us without allowing us to respond or clarify the truth.

11- Blocking airing the People's Assembly sessions on the television, as was the case in the previous parliament targeting obscuring- from the media- the activities and performance of our eighty eight MPs.

12- Standing behind preventing issuing (Afaq Arabiyah) newspaper which was one of our media outlets.

13- Shutting down a number of companies and commercial activities and confiscating whatever money they find in the the houses of the MB members when they arrest them.

14- Transfering thousands of teachers and mosque imams to administrative jobs.

15- Imposing a travel ban on a big number of MB members through administrative decisions without having any court ruling, and even aginst court rulings.

16- Beating peaceful demonstrators who took to streets in solidarity with the judges, by karate groups affiliated with the central security forces, and arresting some others some, the latest released over this issue was Dr. Mohamed Mursi and Dr. Essam El-Erian after staying seven months behind bars.

- All this show the extent of injustice and persecution which we are facing, however, we were and are still patient and tolerant, and we open our minds and hearts for dialogue, and reach out to others to cooperate concerning the common good and we never thought about any retaliation.

- Then came the students issue; MB students- who were prevented from running for the student unions, and those whose nominations were accepted, their names were struck off before the beginning of the elections; consequently, no one succeeded except those the security approved; the other students had to hold parallel elections to establish free student unions which aren't controlled by the whims of the administration and the security; a university used bullies armed with with bladed weapons to assault and beat the students inside the university under the eyes of the university guard who only watched the aggression and did not intervene; a number of MB students were injured and were sent to hospital, and a number of free union students were referred to disciplinary boards and some of them were dismissed from the university for a month, something that enraged their colleagues and made them stage a sit in protesting at this dismissal; during the sit-in, the aforementioned performance that we condemned and for which the students apologized took place. Does this deserve all this hubub, incitement and fabrications?

 As for our stance, we will follow the example of our messenger- peace be upon him- who face severe harm then he was so patient and he prayed for his people, and we will respond to the saying of our late Imam Hassan Al Banna : Treat people like trees, when they throw stones at us, we will respond with fruits", and we repeat with him his saying:" and 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".

(And whosoever putteth his trust in Allah, He will suffice him. Lo! Allah bringeth His command to pass. Allah hath set a measure for all things. ) ( at-Talaq "the divorce": 2 - 3 )

Peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you

Mohamed Mahdi Akef

The Muslim Brotherhood Chairman

Cairo on : 28 Dhal Hijjah 1427 (Hijri)   19 December 2006 AD

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MB Leaders Denounce Tuesday Detentions

in Egyptian Governorates

Dr. Mohamed Al Sayed Habib, the first deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, denounced the detentions that took place on Tuesday dawn and included many Muslim Brotherhood cadres and leaders in the governorates of Sharqiya, Gharbiya and Daqahliya.

These detentions is, like previous blows against the Muslim Brotherhood, aiming at covering the constitutional amendments which will be presented over the coming few day Habib told Ikhwanweb.

Habib added that these continuous crackdowns of detentions against the Muslim Brotherhood group confirm that the government does not want any kind of opposition so that it can ratify the amendments that target, in the first place, establishing the scenario of Tawreeth (that Mubarak Jr succeeds Mubarak Sr. in ruling Egypt), repressing freedoms and violating rights.

The MB second deputy chairman considered that these detentions are an unjustified escalation and worsen matters, especially during such a stage in which Egypt is heated up and tense.

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Visit to MB Detainee’s House,

Family Ordeal During Holidays

Ahmed Ashraf, is a 50 year old engineer who is well known for his calmness and nobility. He is that kind of person that makes you feel at ease when you look at him with his beautifull smile. However, this smiling man has been thrown behind bars since he was picked up by security forces along with hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members in the latest crackdown.

Ahmed Ashraf is the manager of the Islamic Publishing house; he spent most of his career working in the Islamic publishing industry, starting from Al-Da'wah magazine to Safeer company and finally in the Islamic Publishing house in which he has been working for several years.

He has seven children including 5 girls and 2 boys: Hebatullah (BA from Faculty of Theology, doing her post graduate studies), Ismail (university student), Yahya (university student), Mariam (secondary school student) Rawda (prep school student), and finally the twin Iman and Walaa (both primary school students).

I asked his wife to describe what happened; she told me this was not the first time her husband has been arrested "he was arrested last year for three months after the referendum during related demonstrations although he didn’t participate in them". I asked his eldest son, Ismail, about what happened, he described with grief how his father was arrested:“a neighbour living across the street of one of the branches of the Islamic Publishing house called us at 2:00 AM and told us that a number of persons stormed into the branch and were trying to break the door, and when he asked them about their identities and they said they were members of the State Security Investigators (SSI)".

The wife continues:” My husband returned home at about 11:00 AM accompanied by policemen and a big central security vehicle” showing her astonishment at such an attitude as he went to them by himself and if they summoned him he would turn himself in,

She went on saying “they continued ransacking the house and were seemingly searching for money but they found only books which are published and sold in all book stores, and children CDs; they took them and took him to learn later that he was arrested.

Responding to my question whether they expected Mr. Ashraf's arrest following the latest crackdown against Muslim Brotherhood leaders; the family confirmed that the arrest was not expected and unjustified, pointing out that “even the detentions that included some MB members during the last period were due to Al-Azhar University incidents to which Mr. Ashraf had no relation”; the wife commented that:” patience during ordeals is a characteristic of the faithful and believers; my husband is distinguished by his quietness, patience, tolerance in addition to respecting all people; he was always supporting people and addressing their needs; he is decent and is so affectionate towards his children and other people.

Eng. Ashraf’s wife said “ the twin girls were, fortunately, at school when the policemen were in the house, and they did not watch this horrible scene which would have been impossible to be obliterated from their memory, adding that Rawda was, at this time, in the house, and she was severely panicked and cried during that time.

The wife faces a problem this year as nearly all her children are in general certificates: Ismail is a fourth university grader (last BA year), Mariam is in a GCE, and Iman and Wala’ are third graders in the primary stage.

She confirms that these incidents may distract the children while studying, in addition to their concern over when the father would come back, specially the twin youngsters whom we were forced to tell that he is abroad, although they will know the truth when they go to visit him.

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List of Al-Azhar Detained Students

Name	Faculty	Governorate
Mohamed Abdul Hadi Ramadi	Faculty of Theology	Al Fayyum
Hazem Mohamed Ahmed	Faculty of Theology	Al Fayyum
Ahmed Atef	Faculty of Theology	Al Fayyum
Mohamed Abul Naga	Faculty of Theology	Al Fayyum
Ibrahim Nasr	Faculty of Theology	Qalyubiya
Mohamed Abdul Mohsen	Faculty of Theology	Minya
Abdullah Mohamed Khedr	Faculty of Theology	North Sinai
Mohamed Abdul Raouf Ali	Faculty of Theology	North Sinai
Mohamed Tarek Ahmed	Faculty of Commerce	Beheira
Ahmed Hussein Sabe	Faculty of Commerce	Dakahlia
Abdul Rahman Shahin	Faculty of Commerce	Suez
Ahmad Osman	Faculty of Commerce	Sharqiya
Mahmoud Al-Sawah	Faculty of Commerce	Sharqiya
Hamada Mohamed Ayyad	Faculty of Commerce	Gharbiya
Moaaz Hilal	Faculty of Commerce	Gharbiya
Ahmed Siyam	Faculty of Commerce	Gharbiya
Islam Al Desouki	Faculty of Commerce	Monofiya
Mahmoud Abdol-Murdi	Faculty of Commerce	Monofiya
Ahmed Tharwat	Faculty of Commerce	Suhaj
Ahmed Mckee	Faculty of Commerce	Suhaj
Ahmed Gad	Faculty of Commerce	Suhaj
Mahmoud Matar Mahmoud	Faculty of Commerce	North Sinai
Abdullah Al Morshedi	Faculty of Commerce	Kafr Al-Sheikh
Hassaan Awwad	Faculty of Education	Dakahlia
Abdul Rahman Mohamed Fathi	Faculty of Education	Sharqiya
Ahmed Al Husseini	Faculty of Education	Sharqiya
Saad Amin Mckee	Faculty of Education	Gharbiya
Ibrahim Al Sedeimi	Faculty of Education	Gharbiya
Mohamed Al Nagar	Faculty of Education	Al Fayyum
Walid Abdul Tawwab	Faculty of Education	Al Fayyum
Abdul Rahman Gad Al-Rab	Faculty of Education	Minya
Mahmoud Hassan	Faculty of Education	Minya
Rabih	Faculty of Education	Beni Suweif
Mohamed Abdul Khalek	Faculty of Education	Suhaj
Mohamed Gom’a Ebeid	Faculty of Islamic Studies	Sharqiya
Abdullah Said Abdullah	Faculty of Islamic Studies	Sharqiya
Hamad Abdul Magid Hamad	Faculty of Islamic Studies	Gharbiya
Ahmed Solaiman	Faculty of Da’wa	Ismailia
Muhammad Hassan Al-Banna	Faculty of Da’wa	Beheira
Mohamed Atef Al Qasabi	Faculty of Da’wa	Beheira
Ashraf Ahmed Al Gaeidy	Faculty of Da’wa	Dakahlia
Sameh Al Beltagi	Faculty of Da’wa	Dakahlia
Emaduddin Ahmed Hegazi	Faculty of Da’wa	Gharbiya
Mahmoud Abul Hamad Mahmoud	Faculty of Da’wa	Al Fayyum
Abdul Sattar Khairuddin	Faculty of Da’wa	Qalyubiya
Mohamed Mostafa Shlata	Faculty of Da’wa	Monofiya
Osama Ahmed Eid	Faculty of Da’wa	Beni Suweif
Mahmoud Shaban Zakariya	Faculty of Da’wa	Beni Suweif
Ahmed Abdul Sattar	Faculty of Da’wa	Beni Suweif
Mohamed Awad Al Shriga	Faculty of Da’wa	Damietta
Mohamed Helmi Desouki	Faculty of Da’wa	Kafr Al-Sheikh
Mohamed Al Sayyed Abdul Rahman Tael	Faculty of Da’wa	Kafr Al-Sheikh
Mohamed Abdul Moneim Gom’a Shahin	Faculty of Da’wa	Beheira
Islam Basyouni Basyouni	Faculty of Pharmacy	Beheira
Sameh Hegazi Abdullah Khedr	Faculty of Pharmacy	Beheira
Mohamed Abdul Aziz Zeidan	Faculty of Pharmacy	Dakahlia
Mohamed Saad Ibrahim Al Esawi	Faculty of Pharmacy	Gharbiya
Abdul Monsef Mostafa Qandil	Faculty of Pharmacy	Gharbiya
Osama Mostafa	Faculty of Pharmacy	Al Fayyum
Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Al Sanahawi	Faculty of Pharmacy	Monofiya
Walid Al Gabali	Faculty of Pharmacy	Kafr Al-Sheikh
Mohamed Saber Ibrahim	Faculty of Medicine	Alexandria
Mohamed Salah Mostafa	Faculty of Medicine	Beheira
Omar Talaat Mahmoud	Faculty of Medicine	Beheira
Zaki Ahmed Zaki	Faculty of Medicine	Beheira
Karem Al Sayed Ahmed	Faculty of Medicine	Dakahlia
Mohamed Fouad Abdul Magid	Faculty of Medicine	Dakahlia
Mohamed Al Metwalli Khayal	Faculty of Medicine	Dakahlia
Abdul Hamid Al Sbkhawa	Faculty of Medicine	Dakahlia
Ahmed Al Biali Abdul Barei	Faculty of Medicine	Dakahlia
Ahmed Fathi Ghoneim	Faculty of Medicine	Dakahlia
Yahya Al-Sayyed Ibrahim	Faculty of Medicine	Sharqiya
Sohaib Shawkat Al Malt	Faculty of Medicine	Sharqiya
Amer Mohamed Abdul Azim	Faculty of Medicine	Sharqiya
Mohamed Abdul Rahman Al Nagar	Faculty of Medicine	Sharqiya
Atiya Mohamed Al Bayyoumi	Faculty of Medicine	Sharqiya
Mohamed Al Bitar	Faculty of Medicine	Sharqiya
Reda Mostafa Awad	Faculty of Medicine	Sharqiya
Mohamed Fathi Ibrahim	Faculty of Medicine	Sharqiya
Abdullah Sokkar	Faculty of Medicine	Sharqiya
Hatem Gabal	Faculty of Medicine	Sharqiya
Ahmed Bindari Ibrahim	Faculty of Medicine	Sharqiya
Essam Ibrahim Arafa	Faculty of Medicine	Gharbiya
Hisham Abu Bakr Mohamed	Faculty of Medicine	Gharbiya
Atiya Khairi Abul Ela	Faculty of Medicine	Gharbiya
Moaaz Adel Al-Ashri	Faculty of Medicine	Gharbiya
Abdul Latif Mohamed Abdul– Mu’ti	Faculty of Medicine	Gharbiya
Mohamed Adel Al-Ashri	Faculty of Medicine	Gharbiya
Mohamed Galal Shamiya	Faculty of Medicine	Gharbiya
Khalil Hussein Khalil	Faculty of Medicine	Gharbiya
Hussein Ishak Mohamed	Faculty of Medicine	Al Fayyum
Ahmed Hassan Al Sayed	Faculty of Medicine	Monofiya
Mohamed Ahmed Al Taeh	Faculty of Medicine	Qina
Gamal Al Smahi	Faculty of Medicine	Kafr Al-Sheikh
Mahmoud Al Sayed Fathi	Trainee dentist	Gharbiya
Ahmed Al Shadla	Faculty of Sciences	Giza
Mahmoud Gamal Shalabi	Faculty of Sciences	Gharbiya
Adel Abdul Rahim Yunus	Faculty of Languages	Beheira
Osama Al Baz Radi	Faculty of Languages	Dakahlia
Hani Mohamed Allaam	Faculty of Languages	Dakahlia
Ahmed Al Sayyed Fahim	Faculty of Languages	Dakahlia
Ahmed Shawqi Hussein Al Barbari	Faculty of Languages	Gharbiya
Wael Taha Senos	Faculty of Languages	Monofiya
Ali Al Sayed Abu Saad	Faculty of Languages	Kafr Al-Sheikh
Mostafa Hosni Salama	Faculty of Engineering	Alexandria
Mohamed Al Tahhan	Faculty of Engineering	Beheira
Taha Mahi Hassan	Faculty of Engineering	Dakahlia
Mohsen Emara	Faculty of Engineering	Sharqiya
Mohamed Gamal Kamel	Faculty of Engineering	Al Fayyum
Rami Ibrahim Amer	Faculty of Engineering	Qalyubiya
Ahmed Abdul Raouf	Faculty of Engineering	Suhaj
Ahmed Al Tayyeb	Faculty of Engineering	Qina
Ibrahim Hassan Zaghloul	Faculty of Engineering	Kafr Al-Sheikh
Saddam Khattab Labib Badawi	Faculty of Engineering	Kafr Al-Sheikh
Al-Mutasim Billah		Damietta

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Experts: Blocking Ikhwanweb

Confirms Egyptian Regime Bankruptcy

The Egyptian authorities blocked Ikhwanweb.com " the official English language web site of the Muslim Brotherhood group" through denying web surfers access to the Web site's Domain inside Egypt with the use of programming technologies, and technological equipment and systems produced by Western companies for blocking certain web sites nationwide, attempts which were thwarted by the web site's officials through changing the web site's IP and using another emergency Domain.

Khaled Salam, the web site's editor, attributed the foiled attempt of blocking the web site to publishing news of torturing, humiliating and abusing Egyptian citizens inside Egyptian police stations and prisons, exercises which are carried by the Interior Ministry officers.

Salam considered the attempt of blocking the web site as a blind fanaticism against the freedom of expression, the independence of opinion and a shame on the face of the "electronic government" that fights the freedom of publishing information and expressing opinion which are adopted by international charters.
This action violates Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating that "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers".

The attempt of blocking Ikhwanweb.com is the third of such a kind towards this 2 years old the web site. Also, the MB's official Arabic language web site was blocked for six months on 2004, after the police forces broke into the web site's headquarters and arrested the then editor-en-chief, Dr. Gamal Nassar.

Experts: Blocking Ikhwanweb.com

proves its efficiency, effectiveness

For his part, Dr. Diaa Rashwan, the researcher in Al-Ahram Center for Political Studies said " The policies of repressive governments include denying their peoples information because culture and information are the key enemy to dictatorship and repression .
Rashwan pointed to the method of the Third World governments, including of course the Egyptian government, of blocking political websites, the biggest enemy for authoritarian regimes in our Arab region.
Rashwan considered that blocking Ikhwanweb.com proves the website's effectiveness among Western arenas.
The political researcher called on websites that criticize the Arab dictatorships to have some kind of coordination among them, specially in the campaigns of human rights, and detentions and others .

On the other hand, Dr. Mohamed Al Sayed Said, a researcher in Al-Ahram Center for Political Studies and a member in the Kifaya opposition movement, said that "Doing such exercises, the Egyptian government declares its bankruptcy and inability to confront the opposition thought that used the cyberspace as a battlefield for exposing the Egyptian regime's exercises and revealing the many cases of tortures carried out in Egyptian prisons and police stations that are currently similar to detention camps of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib .

Said pointed to incidents of beating political opponents, including the incident of beating Dr. Abdul Halim Kandeel, a writer, a political opponent and a member of Kifaya Movement, beating other politicians .

Said confirmed that these incidents prove that the Egyptian regime retreated from its promises of reform and is no longer able to accept any serious and real opposition.

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