Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 18, 1999
The Supreme Military Court handed down its verdicts in lawsuit number 3 for 1999, dubbed as the Revival of Gamaa Al-Islamiyya Organization case in Alexandria. The Court passed life imprisonment sentences with hard labor against 4 defendants, 15 years imprisonment with hard labor against 8, ten...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 17, 1999 to الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 1999
Islamic militant Osama Bin Laden, one of the FBI’s "Ten Most Wanted" men, called on Muslims to target all Americans and condemned them as "immoral," in a television interview broadcast June 10. "They are an immoral people without values," he told Qatar’s satellite television station Al-Jazira in an...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 22, 1999
The 11th International Conference for the Higher Islamic Council (HIC) will start today in Cairo. The four-day international event "Towards a Renaissance Project for the Islamic World" is held under the auspices of President Hosni Mubarak. According to the Egyptian Minister of Waqfs who is also HIC...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 10, 1999 to الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 1999
A government counterattack has thrown the three-week old campaign against the new Law 153 for Associations and Civil Institutions into disarray. Social affairs minister Mervat Tellawi has led a public relations campaign to deflect international criticism of the law, which aims to keep a check on...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 10, 1999
Subtitle: Immigration groups call for including Persecution Claims on the Agenda of Mubarak’s Visit to Washington
Egyptian Coptic immigrant groups in the United States of America are re-launching their attacks on Egypt with claims of persecutions of Copts in Egypt. A suspicious report has also been...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 10, 1999 to الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 1999
Of the thirteen military trials of the Gamaa Islamiya, this is the first in which no one has been condemned to death.
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 7, 1999
Claims made in the western press about the rape of Christian girls in Egypt, and forcing them to become Muslims with the allegation that this takes place with the blessing of the police stirs and angry response from the authorities and Christians.
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 6, 1999
A Kuwaiti Islamist leader called on the state to close unlicensed churches, which he said were harming Kuwait, instead of cracking down on Muslim charities, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 4, 1999
[Note: The same news was published in all Egyptian newspapers of that day.]
On the morning of June 3, President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak received the Grand Imam Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi the Sheikh Al-Azhar, and 19 prominent muslim clerics at the Presidential Palace in Heliopolis yesterday morning...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 3, 1999 to الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 9, 1999
Sheikh Abdul Rahim El-Semeen from the Al-Azhar, and Bishop Bakhoum, both from Sohag declared their support for president Mubarak.