Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 13, 2002
The Cairo Supreme State Security Court resumed hearing the case of Saad Eddin Ibrahim. The defense cross-examined the prosecution witnesses, one of whom is former deputy commissioner of Minouf city.
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 28, 2002
In the first session of the re-trial of Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the defense asked the court to examine the witnesses for the prosecution and the defense, to allow Dr. Ibrahim to travel abroad for treatment and reopen the Ibn Khaldoun Center. The court accepted only to examine the witness for the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 27, 2002
The judge of appeal in the court of Heliopolis ordered the continuation of the imprisonment of both a Palestinian women and her Israeli husband for 30 days in custody. The Egyptian State Security Prosecution charged them with offending heavenly religions and with trying to promote a new religion...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 24, 2006
A discussion of homosexuality and Egyptian law taken from a bachelor’s thesis on Egyptian law.
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 21, 2004
The Supreme State Security Court in Cairo is due to hear the case of the Islamic Liberation Party [Hizb al-Tahrir] on the 25th of this month. Three British citizens are among the suspects in this case. The Liberation Party resumed its activities after the end of fundamentalist activities due to two...
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 26, 2004
The Higher Court of State Security [Emergency] yesterday sentenced 26 suspects, including three Britons and a Palestinian, to prison terms that range between one and five years, on charges of promoting the [ideas of] a Hizb el-Tahrir [Liberation Party], an Islamic group banned in Egypt but...
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 3, 2004
A lot of youth in Upper Egypt joined the Islamic group of Al-Tabligh wa Al-Da’wa. These youths claim that they are preaching the ways of God, but they have no credentials that qualify them to preach. The members of the group in fact do not care about politics and the regime. They belittle the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 1, 2004
The Egyptian Higher State Security Prosecution renewed the jail sentence of 53 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood for a period of 15 days pending investigations into the group’s most recent cases.
The authorities are still searching for three suspects wanted in relation to the case, two of...
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 6, 2004
Three runaway suspects turned themselves in to the Egyptian authorities, increasing the number of arrested Muslim Brotherhood members to fifty-eight. One Muslim Brotherhood member, Muhammad Ibrahim, has yet to be arrested.
The prosecution for Higher State Security sentenced the three suspects to...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 19, 2004
Some foreign organizations that advocate freedom of individuals to be homosexual have increased pressure on Egypt to recognize gay rights, regardless of how applicable this idea is to different societies. Human rights organizations in Egypt have reaffirmed the Egyptian society’s conservative...