Date of source:
The Supreme Court of State Security sentenced Salah
El-Dīn Mohsen, who is accused of disdaining
religions, to three years hard labor. The court also ruled that all of
his books should be confiscated
because they contain extremist thoughts and defame the Divine Being. Mohsen said
that he was...
Date of source: Saturday, November 18, 2006
The Supreme State
Security Court resumes hearings on the bombings of the Azhar area and ‘Abd al-Mun‘im
Riyād
square that took place in April, 2005.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 26, 2000
The General Prosecutor made an indictment order in the case of the Ibn Khaldūn center, and decided to refer Dr. Saʿd al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, the head of the center, and 27 other people, to the High State Security Court. They were charged with receiving 261,000 Euros as a donation from the European Union...
Date of source: Monday, November 6, 2006
Chancellor
Sa‘īd al-‘Ashmāwī complains about the lift of his police protection to
the Ministry of Interior.
Date of source: Monday, August 25, 1997
Subtitles:(1)
Dr. Sai’d "The report of the Azhar does not differentiate between criticizing
Sheik Abdel Sabour Shahein and
attacking the prophet Yosef"(2) Judicial resource "there is a difference
between freedom of thought
and writing with malicious intentions"(3) The Center of Law Research "...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 18, 1997
Egypt is often criticized abroad for its treatment of its Christian citizens. Prominent Coptic thinker Dr. Milad Hanna, confirmed that equality between Muslims and Christians is not there. Lu’iy Mahmoud Sa’id, himself a Muslim, describes how Muslim authors attacked Milad Hanna for stating his view...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Nearly 37 Muslim
Brotherhood members, including two leading figures,
were arrested yesterday while participating in a summer
youth camp in the northwest coastal city of Marsa
Matrouh.
Date of source: Sunday, October 7, 2001
The family of Saad Eddin Ibrahim hopes for the acceptance of the appeal he lodged to stop the implementation of the sentence against him. Ibrahim’s defense explained that one of the reasons for accepting the appeal was the fact that the Cassation Court decided that military decrees have nothing to...
Date of source: Monday, March 6, 2006
A member of the Islamic Liberation Party in the United Kingdom, Mājid Nawāz, was released last week from an Egyptian jail after serving three-quarters of his five-year jail term, which was on charges of spreading his party’s ideology in Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, July 18, 2003
The Supreme State Security Court will continue hearing the case of Hizb Al-Tahrir [Liberation] Party tomorrow. Three Britons among 26 Islamists, are accused in the case. They, together with the other defendants, are charged with membership in an underground organization that aims at overthrowing...