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Hundreds of workers on Sunday blocked the road in front of the Investment Ministry, the prime minister's temporary office, calling for the dismissal of the corrupt leaders of their companies. The workers, employed at Al-Nasr Steam Boilers,...
An emergency assembly of the dissolved Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) on Sunday rejected a cabinet decision on Thursday to disband the federation and decided to file a lawsuit to have the decision reversed. The state-controlled federation...
Both the official and independent trade federations on Monday rejected the cabinet reshuffle recently announced by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, though for different reasons. The federations both felt that the move was unsatisfactory and would fuel...
Sources close to the Muslim Brotherhood said the group’s Guidance Bureau is conducting intensive investigations into its young members who support Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh, a group member who independently announced plans to run in upcoming...
The Muslim Brotherhood's representative in Minya, Ali Omran, says the group reiterated its rejection of the newly appointed governor of Minya during a meeting with Security Director Mamdouh Maqlad. Maqlad met with group leaders to ask their...
The Muslim Brotherhood said it would participate in this Friday’s demonstration to be held in Tahrir Square, and suggested calling it the 'Friday of Purging'. Demonstrators would demand the trial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and...
Young brotherhood group members to revolt and dissolve the bureau and the group’s Shura Council is strange and contradicts the group’s ethics, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Bureau said. Young group members had called for an...
The Muslim Brotherhood is internally divided over whether women and Copts should be allowed to run for president. The debate emerged as a number of MB leaders are in the process of revising the political party platform before presenting it the...
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is currently studying the possibility of establishing a satellite television station and a number of newspapers and magazines, according to leading MB member Essam al-Arian. “Freedom of access to information is key...
The International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood said it will take legal action against the Egyptian regime before the International Court of Justice in order to acquit the group of money laundering charges. The Egyptian State Security Court...