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21. Loyal militant opposition
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
The military courtrooms in Hike Step have seen a lot of strange things. One of the more bizarre spectacles, however, occurred on 17 June when the verdicts in the latest case against the Gamaa Islamiya - the Montaza Palace trial - came down. Leading defendant Ahmed Al Sheikh, who’d just been...
3. Montaza sentences lenient, defense says," For the first time, a Gamaa Islamiya trial has ended with no one condemned to death
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Of the thirteen military trials of the Gamaa Islamiya, this is the first in which no one has been condemned to death.
14. Party time for Islamic militant group
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 1999 to Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Egypt’s largest Islamist militant group, the Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiyya, has announced several new initiatives as part of its effort to switch from violent opposition to the government to a legal alternative, its lawyers said.
9. Suspected militants accuse forces of coercion
Date of source: Sunday, February 14, 1999 to Saturday, February 20, 1999
Forty-four suspected Islamic militants pleaded not guilty to charges of plotting to unseat the regime when they appeared in a military court on February 4. Most asked the judge to discredit their alleged confessions, because they claim the confessions were extracted under torture.

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