Freedom and Justice Party Secretary General Mahmoud Hussein denied reports circulated on Monday that the Muslim Brotherhood was on a state of high alert ahead of new presidential decrees expected to be issued within hours.

A Muslim man was sentenced to death in Egypt on Monday for killing two people in a dispute with Christians in a southern town, state media said, in a case that underlines sectarian tensions in the country.

Even though the Muslim Brotherhood did not field any candidates in the Journalists Syndicate elections last week, the results have still been perceived as a blow to the ruling group.

The Al-Zawya Al-Hamra Misdemeanor Court in Cairo sentenced satellite television host and Islamist preacher Abdullah Badr to six months in prison on Tuesday for insulting media professional Amr al-Leithy and his father.

Several media figures were reportedly assaulted by Islamist protesters at the Media Production City (MPC) in Sixth October City on Sunday.

In 6 October City, a new sprawl of malls and mansions just west of the capital, locals say there is only one shop that sells alcohol. Its name is Bazaar al-Gamaa, and if you ask its owner, Abu Ramez, nicely, he will fetch you a bottle of vodka from the storeroom. In the fridges opposite the till, there are crates of local lagers: Sakara, Meister, Rex – and Stella, an award-winning Egyptian lager unconnected to its Belgian namesake. "That's my favourite," said Ramez, who has been an off-licence owner for 22 years. "Low alcohol percentage. Better for my liver."

Former head of "Asala" Salafi Party, Adel Afifi, called on citizens on Monday to defend themselves and their property in the light of what he described as the weakness of police performance on the streets.

Mohamed al-Gendy, a popular activist, was last seen alive at around 2:30 a.m. January 28, when he said good night to a journalist friend near Cairo’s Tahrir Square and headed home. When Gendy didn’t show up at a planned march the next day, his cellphone switched off, his friends grew alarmed—especially because he had recently received threatening texts, telling him to stop his activism.

April 6 Youth Movement has called for an 'angry day' of protests against President Mohamed Morsi on 6 April.

The Muslim Brotherhood said on Saturday it could have physically bested the 'perpetrators' who beat up members of the Islamic group at its main headquarters, but abstained from such an engagement "for the greater good."

Egypt's prominent Salafist figure and founder of Al-Raya Party Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail said that protesting at the offices of liberal parties and politicians has become "an urgent necessity."

Galal al-Morra, secretary general of the Salafi-oriented Nour Party, called on the National Salvation Front to consider Egypt’s interests and not to politically support “saboteurs and killers.”

Prosecutors ordered both Abdel Rahman and Ahmed Gamal Saber, sons of prominent Salafi leader Gamal Saber, detained for four days pending investigation into multiple charges, including murder.

Upon the conclusion of student elections at Egyptian universities nationwide, the emergence of political forces other than the Muslim Brotherhood represents a fresh addition to the burgeoning student movement.

Hours after the State Commissioner’s Authority issued a recommendation to dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, the Brotherhood announced it legalised its status.

Egypt's official women's rights council says Islamists who reject a U.N. blueprint to combat violence against women and girls are promoting the idea that Islam favors violence against women.

As earlier suggested, the wonderful thing about Salafis—those extra “radical” Muslims who seek to emulate as literally as possible prophet Muhammad’s teachings and habits—is that they are so unabashed and frank about what they believe. Such is the degree of brainwashing that they have undergone. Unlike the Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded much earlier, doublespeak is not second nature to the Salafis.

A report recently released by the State Commissioner’s Authority requested that the Administrative Judiciary Court dissolve the organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood, and that the government take steps to prevent it from engaging in any further banking activities.

Christians gathered in front of the Libyan Embassy in Washington, D.C., on March 14 to peacefully protest the recent detainment and torture of Copts in Libya.

Police arrested prominent Salafi leader Gamal Saber on Tuesday in connection with a deadly family feud in Shubra district that left three people dead.