The Egyptian human rights organization condemned preventing the assistant secretary general of the physicians association, Issam al-Aryan, who is a key figure in the Ikhwan al-Muslimin (Muslim Brotherhood) group from traveling to Beirut on Monday, where he was presumed to take part in the seminar on the relations between the Islamic world and Europe. In a statement, the organization said that the Egyptian security forces summoned al-Aryan before he took the plane after he had completed all travel measures and notified him he is banned from traveling. Al-Aryan explained that the authorities did not explain the reasons to him, adding that he on Thursday filed an official complaint to the minister of the Interior, Habib al-Adeli, and to the chairman of the state security intelligence department to investigate in this incident. He said he was invited to take part in the symposium under the title "the Islamic world and Europe from dialogue to joint understanding" that started on Tuesday in Beirut and lasted for three days, and organized by several research centers including the consultation center for studies and documentation, and the French monthly magazine Le Monde Diplomatique. Al-Aryan considered that another leading figure in the Muslim Brothers movement, the economy professor Abdul Hamid al-Ghazali was banned on Wednesday from traveling to Jordan where he has to teach for several months in one of the Jordanian universities. The Egyptian human rights organization considered that preventing al-Aryan from traveling is considered a violation to several human rights including "the right to move and travel." The Muslim Brothers organization in Egypt have been exposed to pressure, but that did not prevent it from being the largest opposition political forces in Egypt. It has 16 independent parliamentarians in the parliament whose members toll 454.
| I guess there are occasional advantages to running a dictatorship. Though I'd have shot them, myself. |
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