-Caveat Lector- : Police stop religious candidate from campaigning in Egypt : By Esmat Salaheddin : CAIRO: Egyptian riot police prevented candidates of the banned Muslim : Brotherhood in Alexandria from campaigning for parliamentary : elections, one of the candidates said on Monday. : "An anti-riot force surrounded 20 to 30 people during a tour by : Brotherhood candidate Hamdi Hassan in west Alexandria on Saturday," : said Ali Abdel-Fattah. : "All of them were taken to a police station on the pretext that the : election campaign had not started yet," Abdel-Fattah said. "There were : only slight injuries." : Officials were not immediately available to comment. : The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most influential religious movement, : was banned in 1954 but has enjoyed periods of official tolerance. It : informally nominates and supports candidates running as independents : in parliamentary elections. : The elections for 444 members of parliament will take place in three : stages on October 18 and 29 and November 8. : Official campaigning has not begun, but many candidates of the ruling : National Democratic Party and others have started wooing the public. : The state-owned daily al-Akhbar printed photographs on Sunday of : Economy and Foreign Trade Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali canvassing : voters in a barber's shop. : The authorities have detained more than 200 suspected Brotherhood : members in recent months, security sources say. : The group issued a statement condemning the crackdown as a government : bid to exclude them from the election. : "Muslim Brothers are subject to a wide-scale detention campaign by : security authorities for just trying to participate in the approaching : poll as independents," it said. : "When Muslim Brothers apply for registration as independents and : demand the application of Sharia ....they are exercising a right : guaranteed by the constitution," it added. : In another development, the deputy to a jailed religious newspaper : editor said the imprisoned journalist planned to run in the : forthcoming elections. : "From inside the jail...Magdy Ahmed Hussein has decided to register : for the legislative election for the Cairo neighbourhood of Manyal," : Talaat Rumeih, deputy chief editor of the suspended bi-weekly al : Shaab, said in a statement. : The newspaper is the mouthpiece of the religious Labour Party. The : party and its publications were suspended in June for allegedly : fomenting student riots in May and forging links with the Muslim : Brotherhood.-Reuters <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
