Date of source: السبت, آب (اغسطس) 25, 2001 to الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 31, 2001
Sixteen imprisoned members of the Brotherhood, including a number of professional syndicate activists, filed a lawsuit demanding to be released, arguing that they were convicted under item 48 of the penal code, which the Constitutional Court annulled.
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 15, 2001
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.
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 12, 2001
A group of Egyptian lawyers demanded the release of 15 leading figures, who were accused in the case known as the professional syndicates case.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 5, 2001
Coptic lawyer Mamdouh Ramzi is leading a battle against the Muslim Brotherhood in the Bar Association. He is demanding that the president founds a Christian Law Branch, to contrast with the Islamic law [Shari’a] branch. Christian lawyer Naguib Gabriel rejects all religious committees inside the...
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 4, 2001
Brotherhood MPs are preparing a campaign aimed at television, its budget, programs, drama, and the female television announcers. They filed about 500 information requests, choosing popular topics to start crisis: three sex novels published by the Ministry of Culture, the Miss Egypt competition,...
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 5, 2001 to الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 11, 2001
Islamist lawyers broke into two fronts; one supporting Montasser Al-Zayyat and announced him to be its secretary general. The other front removed him from his position. Al-Zayyat was accused by some members of the Islamist Lawyers’ general assembly of defaming the Islamist Lawyers and seeking...
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 9, 2001
Raga’i Atiya said that he did not meet the General Guide of the Brotherhood and Mokhtar Nuh tried to agree with him on a public list. He refused the support of Fou’ad Serag Eddin Pasha because there were four Wafdists among the rivals for the Bar’s highest post. Pope Shenouda invited him for a day...
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 22, 2001
The author of the articles on the story of the former monk said his articles were based on original interviews with the former monk and a book by him called "Confessions of an Egyptian monk." He added that the aim of publishing such a story was to find the truth, as the paper embraces neither the...
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 24, 2001 to الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 2, 2001
The Brotherhood’s secret and public voting lists for the Bar Syndicate elections focused on 11 Brotherhood lawyers. Then names of more lawyers were added to the lists, lawyers of each governorate were on the lists for those governorates, which lead to the fact that whoever voted for the Brotherhood...
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 21, 2001
The new treasurer of the Bar Association notified the General Prosecutor that some members of the Muslim Brotherhood, who were ruled against in the action of the professional syndicates, were being tortured. Mokhtar Nuh, the previous treasurer of the Bar Association, and his companions were put in...