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Badie granted appeal in ‘Headquarters Case’
Court of Cassation sets appeal date of 4 January

NCHR slams Brotherhood prisoners’ complaints on detention conditions
NCHR delegation says prisoners refused to meet during inspection of Al-Aqrab Prison

Notes from America: The accidental hero
By Ahmed Tharwat In his book “Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era”, Joseph Nye of Harvard University divided American presidents into two groups. One is made up of “transformational” leaders – those with the grandiose goal of using American influence to spread democracy and liberty around the world. The second group contains …
Final verdict for Mohamed Morsi due 16 May
Ex-president and 35 Muslim Brotherhood leaders accused in “espionage trial”

4 Muslim Brotherhood members handed death sentences in ‘headquarters trial’
Court to rule on remaining defendants on 28 February

Muslim Brotherhood Deputy’s son-in-law arrested
Muslim Brotherhood members kidnapped and tortured by intelligence, says MB spokesperson

Muslim Brotherhood ‘demons’ trained by terrorist organisation: Prosecution
Morsi says he is outside the court’s authority, trial postponed

Morsi espionage trial postponed
Homeland Security General called to testify; defendants face charges of collaborating with foreign groups
‘Helwan Brigades’ are Muslim Brotherhood members: Interior ministry
Group announced in a video released in August solidarity with the Brotherhood, but denied being members

Government seizes Seoudi supermarkets, among other Muslim Brotherhood assets
Judiciary committee assessing Muslim Brotherhood funds seizes two companies and their administration pending charges faced by owners, Khairat El-Shater and Abdel Rahman Al-Seoudi

Morsi espionage trial postponed to 16 June
Ousted Islamist president faces trial in four cases in total

Khairat El-Shater, 17 others stand trial for ‘inciting violence’
The trial, featuring Brotherhood second-in-command, will take place in Moqattam

Court recuses itself from trial of Brotherhood leaders
Date for next hearing of Supreme Guide and deputies not set

Brotherhood spokesman arrested
Three Muslim Brotherhood members arrested as security forces continue crackdown on the group

Court freezes assets of Islamist leaders
Court upholds decision to freeze assets of Brotherhood leaders and others

Son of deputy supreme guide arrested
Saad El-Shater, son of Deputy Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, is arrested on Wednesday morning

Brotherhood trial postponed to October
Detained senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders did not attend first hearing

US: Dialogue still possible in Egypt
State Department still committed to encourage dialogue

El-Shater meets international envoy in prison
Khairat El-Shater met US Deputy Secretary of State, European Union delegate, Emirati and Qatari foreign ministers yesterday in Al-Akrab prison late Sunday night, contrary to previous government reports.
Eight Muslim Brotherhood Leaders transferred to a high-security prison
Freedom and Justice Party: “This transfer is against the law”

Muslim Brotherhood leaders detained
Brotherhood leaders accused of inciting violence are sentenced to detention by the public prosecution.

Muslim Brotherhood hosts former Malaysian PM
Former prime minister of Malaysia stresses importance of national unity and economic progress in Egypt

Breaking up
By: Philip Whitfield Cut and run, or duke it out – Morsi’s dilemma during the interregnum. Feuding inside the Muslim Brotherhood rages. Khairat El-Shater berates Morsi for pussyfooting around the Brothers’ project to control every facet of Egyptian life. El-Shater reportedly craves the top job, goading Morsi to call a snap election. According to Mark …

Raising tyrants in the name of Islam
“In China, they have blocked YouTube, Facebook and Twitter and no one is upset; life is good and everyone is happy. And they say we do not have freedom of speech in Egypt.” These were the enlightened words of Saad Al-Shater on his Facebook page, the son of Khairat El-Shater, vice of Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme …

Khairat El-Shater’s bodyguard sentenced year in prison
Khalil Al-Aqid was arrested outside a polling station for possession of a firearm in December 2012 during the constitutional referendum

What do we do about those caught between the corrupt and the hopeless?
After viewing the results of Egypt’s last parliamentary elections, we can safely say that they were not only contested by political parties, but also those who advocated for competing attitudes and views about the state of Egypt and its future. We have at times attempted to monitor these attitudes, identifying four major points of conflict …
Free Egyptians Party support Al-Azhar Defence Front
Group established to defend Al-Azhar from ‘attempts to undermine university’s authority’

Imminent cabinet reshuffle “untrue” says FJP
Hisham Qandil’s Cabinet survives, for now

El-Shater’s bodyguard denies military training in Gaza
Khalil Al-Aqid, arrested on charges of possessing an illegal firearm, denied all links to the Muslim Brotherhood and its deputy supreme guide

Tawfiq Okasha’s predictions and revelations
Okasha: Khairat El-Shater has been threatening to spill my blood