CAIRO: Prominent reform-minded Muslim Brotherhood leader Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh was released from state security custody on Wednesday, after spending nearly five months behind bars. The move was welcomed by the Muslim Brotherhood, who had long demanded the top leader and Secretary-General of the Arab Doctors Union be released. According to a spokesman for the [...]

Excerpts from my interview with Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a Muslim Brotherhood leader and part of the so-called “reform” movement within the Islamic group. 31 May 2009 Bikya Masr: How did you get involved in the Muslim Brotherhood? Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh: When we joined college in the early 1970s, we resumed the [...]

CAIRO: Almost four months since leading Muslim Brotherhood reformist leader Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh was detained, he remains imprisoned by the Egyptian government. On Sunday, he showed that jailing has yet to fully dampen his spirits, telling the court after a renewal of detention was passed down that “Egypt is more important to me than [...]

CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood and a number of domestic human rights groups have called for the release of a number of popular Brotherhood leaders after the interior ministry continues to refuse court orders for their release. Topping the list of those are garnering the support of a cross-section of groups in the country is former [...]

CAIRO: Cairo-based doctors are voicing their anger and frustration at the ongoing detention of a number of jailed Muslim Brotherhood doctors, including leading reformist Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh. Speaking openly at a press conference this week, the Egyptian doctors syndicate said the arrests of their members, including Aboul Fotouh, were a “clear violation of freedom [...]

Over two months ago, reformist Muslim Brotherhood leader Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh was arrested by the Egyptian government. The reason was simple: he belonged to the banned Islamic group. In recent years, since the success the Brotherhood experienced in the 2005 Parliamentary elections, Cairo has been pushing forward on their campaign to silence the Islamic [...]

CAIRO: The Egyptian National Council for Human Rights sent a memorandum to the country’s Attorney General over the weekend to inquire about the legal status of the arrest of Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Secretary-General of the Arab Union of Doctors and a leading reformist member of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood. Aboul Fotouh has been [...]

CAIRO: Imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood leader Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh is currently at a Cairo hospital after being transferred from Torah Prison – where he was being held by security forces – the Brotherhood’s website reported this week. His relatives have been barred from visiting the reform minded Islamic leader at the Kasr El Aini hospital. [...]