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The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights [EOHR] called on President Mubarak, in a recent statement, not to ratify the rulings issued by the State Security Court, or “emergency courts,” in what is known as the Izderaa al-Adyan case, or the blasphemy case. The statement expressed the...
The increase in the number of the Coptic wives filing lawsuits before the court to get permission to remarry has led to annulling the ecclesiastical regulation that states that the wife whose husband is missing has to wait for 30 years for her husband before she is able to remarry. The article...
The Supreme Constitutional Court ruled the unconstitutionality of article 177 in the personal status regulations for the Coptic Orthodox. The regulation states the possibility of declaring a missing person dead thirty years after the [initial] proof of his missing status, or ninety years after his...
After the Constitutional Court annulled item 48 of the penal code, 12 lawyers from different political and intellectual backgrounds filed a lawsuit to release 15 imprisoned members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Guidance Office of the Muslim Brotherhood refused to allow one of the group’s lawyers to file a lawsuit demanding the application of article 48 [of the Penalties Law] to help release those who were convicted in the case of the professional syndicates.
A group of Egyptian lawyers demanded the release of 15 leading figures, who were accused in the case known as the professional syndicates case.
Saad Eddin Ibrahim was charged with violating the military law No. 4/ 1992. This law considered collecting funds and donations from foreign bodies without informing the authorities offensive to the government. But his lawyer obtained a copy of a legal principle set by the appeal court, in which it...
Two challenges were filed against the Minister of Interior and against Pope Shenouda in his capacity as the Head of the Maglis El-Milli. The two challenges regarded the elections of the Maglis El-Milli having serious legal contraventions that would lead to the invalidity of the election results.
An Egyptian court allowed Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu-Zeid to refer his appeal, regarding an unconstitutional article in the penal code, to the Supreme Constitutional Court.
Essam Al-Erian, one of the prominent leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, said that raising young men and the entire Egyptian nation on Islam and moralities is the way towards forming an Islamic community. He added that there is no difference between political parties concerning general principles....

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