The International Campaign to Release the Reformers in Egypt

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The Muslim Brotherhood Movement is an Islamic international movement whose objective is to reform the society, spread freedom, respect human rights and fight corruption. It was founded in Egypt in 1928, and it is spread all over the world, having offshoots in more than 70 countries. It has been proved that the more democratic the regimes, the bigger the Muslim Brotherhood's role and presence in public life. The group has MPs in parliaments of countries allowing a considerable space of freedom like Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Mauritania, Bahrain, Yemen, Kuwait and Indonesia. Some MB members are also cabinet members in several governments of those countries.
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is a public and open peaceful group with a wide-scale approval rating. Therefore, it is considered the biggest opposition power in Egypt, and it accounts for a fifth of the members of Egyptian parliament.
The Muslim Brotherhood participates in civil society institutions like the Syndicate of Doctors, the Bar Association the Press Syndicate, the Syndicate of Commercial Professions, the Syndicate of Pharmacists and several charities. The Muslim Brotherhood owns and runs institutions that serve the Egyptian society like schools and hospitals.
Any fair elections in which the Muslim Brotherhood fielded candidates have led to a sweeping victory for MB candidates and a heavy loss for the regime's candidates. This made the autocratic regime freeze union elections in several syndicates since 1996 until now fearing the success of Muslim Brotherhood members .
Throughout the past 50 years, no MB member has been accused of committing any act of violence. The Muslim Brotherhood has repeatedly declared that it respects rules of the political game, the circulation of power and rights of women and Copts. However, the regime denies the moderate group the right to establish a political party.

Due to the MB's huge public approval, the Egyptian regime arrests, nearly on a weekly basis, dozens of MB members and leaders, sometimes raising the number of the detainees under provisional detention to five thousand. In late 2006, the Egyptian regime detained 40 top MB leaders. The police even seized their money and PCs in their companies and houses and they shut down their businesses although they had legal documents and had dealt with state bodies, including ministries. These unjustified detentions were accompanied by a media campaign launched by journalists led by the security service to distort the image of these reformists and business moguls. In spite of all these campaigns, the civil justice acquitted them of all charges. However, Egyptian President referred them to a military court to ensure they got tough sentences and to set the scene for his son to smoothly succeed him in ruling Egypt without any real opposition. These civilian reformists are still standing in front of military courts that lack the minimum guarantees for a fair trial.
During the trial sessions, more than 30 trial sessions till November 2007, it was proved that state security officers forged many documents of the case, stole so much money from houses of these detained reformists, and the expert committee mandated by the Justice Ministry to assess the reformists businesses found out that the money laundry charge is groundless and they found out also that the reformists' businesses are actually bolstering Egyptian economy. Nevertheless, the regime still insists on maintaining the military tribunal against them.