Date of source: Thursday, April 19, 2001
The Islamic Lawyers group resumed its activities after more than six years of suspension, due to the detention of some of its members.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 2, 2000
The members of the Islamist Lawyer’s Front overcame the crisis, which led to its secretary’s, Montasser Al-Zayyat, attempted resignation. At a meeting of members of the Front Al-Zayyat’s resignation was rejected. They declared their support for Zayyat in the coming Bar Association elections.
Date of source: Thursday, January 18, 2001
The lawyer of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya said that if investigations proved that members of the group were behind the armed robbery of the national bank of Al-Marragha it meant that those who rejected the initiative denouncing violence had begun to take practical steps. A statement was issued by the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 10, 2001
The leaders of Jihad, the terrorist group, have announced that they will resume their armed activity against the government system in Egypt. They will continue until they manage to overthrow it. The announcement came in the editorial of the first edition of their new magazine, "Al-Mujahidun."
Date of source: Wednesday, January 10, 2001
The imminent Bar Syndicate elections caused conflicts among the Brotherhood members. The Guidance Office chose Mohammed Toson to fill the place of Mokhtar Nuh, the ex-treasurer of the Bar Syndicate, now sentenced to three years imprisonment. By doing so, it ignored Ahmed Rabie, the committee’s...
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2000
President Sadat was very worried about the growth of the Nasserist and leftist trends among university students. That is why he thought of letting the Islamic trend grow and flourish and use them to confront the Nasserist and leftist trends. The Gama’at Al-Islamiya existed already during the last...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2000
The author comments on Fahmi Howeidi’s article about establishing an Islamic party. He expressed his surprise at the fact that Howeidi discussed the idea only from a constitutional angle but not from a political one. Howeidi’s idea that the constitution does not prohibit founding religious parties...
Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2000
According to the report of the Human Rights Watch on Egypt, the government of President Hosni Mubarak intensified its efforts to exercise control over civil society institutions, harassing and restricting the activities of political parties, human rights and other nongovernmental organizations (...
Date of source: Saturday, December 16, 2000
Disagreements within the Islamist Lawyers’ Front led to the resignation of Montasser Al-Zayyat, its secretary general. Al-Zayyat said that he wrote the resignation last April, but he delayed submitting it until after the date of the elections of the Bar Association was set, fearing that it might be...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 29, 2000
Islamic groups are gaining power through increasing penetration of the religious flux among people. The Muslim Brotherhood’s awareness of this fact guaranteed them continuity and helped them in achieving great success in the recent elections. People are increasingly attracted to them because of...