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Mubarak’s pigs crack down on MBs

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From Reuters…

Police detained 17 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday in northern Egypt where the Islamist group was fielding candidates for three vacant parliamentary seats, security officials said.
The Brotherhood, the strongest opposition group in the Arab country despite the ban, said police forces were blocking its campaign staff and supporters from voting in the coastal city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta province of Kafr el-Sheikh. Brotherhood candidates are running as independents.
The Interior Ministry said the charges were baseless.
Security officials and the Brotherhood said police rounded up the 17 Islamists in Alexandria, where the group was vying with ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) and other independent candidates for two seats vacant since 2005 when voting was halted after a legal challenge.
A Reuters photographer saw police detain two men who were carrying leaflets promoting a Brotherhood candidate.
The arrests bring to at least 55 the number of Brotherhood members detained over the past four days.

Mubarak’s henchman on general strikes

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From the Daily News Egypt:

“What happened on April 6 and May 4 is nothing but a failed attempt,” said Safwat El-Sherif, head of the Shura Council, speaking to Rose Al-Youssef newspaper.
“They think that the society is unaware or oblivious to facts,” El-Sherif said. He, however, considered both strikes an opportunity for the National Democratic Party (NDP) to test its abilities in dealing with new political movements, such as the ones sprouting online on websites like Facebook.
He also warned that some groups that lack empirical existence on the streets may use these innocent young thoughts to create a “hollow existence”.
He described the media that takes advantage of this as “adolescent media”.
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In reference to the debates surrounding the Lawyers’ Syndicate and the draft law, El-Sherif said, “I think political parties should not intervene with professional syndicates, but because syndicates became invaded by political parties, I have no choice but to intervene.”
The amendments to the current law focus on the board of elected representatives of the Lawyers’ Syndicate.
“The government performance is different from what it was in 2005, which is seen in the high development rates and the increase in job opportunities,” he said.
“A lot of the promises made by the president’s electoral campaign were met by the government on many levels; economically and socially.” However, he justifies the government’s most criticized decisions such as price hikes, saying that international conditions put pressure on the government.
He then referred to population growth, saying that it depends on people’s awareness of the issue’s importance. “Every year we are required to give 1.2 million graduates jobs and enroll another million children in schools and this requires a lot of effort from the government,” El-Sherif said.
El-Sherif also touched upon issuing licenses to private newspapers, saying that he is not worried because it has been two years since the last license was given to a newspaper, adding that only four or five applicants have met the criteria since then.
“When I increase the number of newspapers, I am spreading moderation and reducing extremism,” he said. He also added that “this will only affect the private press but not the local press.”

US-backed Mubarak extends state of emergency for another 2 years

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Hosni Mubarak, has done it again:

Egypt on Monday extended a controversial decades-old state of emergency by two years despite pledges to replace it by new legislation, in a move slammed by rights groups as anti-constitutional.
“Parliament has accepted during its afternoon session today the decision by the president of the republic to extend the state of emergency for two years starting from June 1, or until a new terror law is drafted, whichever comes first,” the state news agency MENA said.
“It was passed with 305 votes in favor and 103 against,” Issam al-Mokhtar, an MP with the Muslim Brotherhood, told AFP by telephone.
The state of emergency was first imposed in 1981 after the assassination by Islamists of president Anwar Sadat and has been repeatedly renewed since then despite protests from rights groups and regime opponents.
Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif pledged to “only use the law in the fight against terrorism… and to protect the security of the nation and its citizens,” MENA reported.
“The government… has only used the articles of the law strictly for the goals intended, namely the fight against terrorism,” Nazif told parliament.
Last year, Judicial and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mufid Shehab said the state of emergency would end in 2008, even if the new anti-terror law meant to replace it was not ready.

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