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Date of source: Thursday, April 29, 1999 to Wednesday, May 5, 1999
In another blow to Islamist militants, 13 members of the clandestine Vanguards of Conquest, an offshoot of the Jihad group, were handed over to Egypt during the past few weeks by South Africa, Yemen, Kuwait and Syria.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 to Wednesday, May 12, 1999
The so-called Returnees from Albania trial - the largest in the stream of military trials of Islamist militants since the assassination of President Sadat in 1981 - ended on 18 April with the usual cocktail of death sentences, prison terms and acquittals.
Date of source: Thursday, April 22, 1999 to Wednesday, April 28, 1999
This trial is the biggest trial of suspected Islamic militants since those that followed the assassination of the late President Anwar Al-Sadat.
Date of source: Thursday, April 22, 1999 to Wednesday, April 28, 1999
Of the 107 defendants tried at the Hike Step military camp, 78 were given prison sentences, 11 of whom were condemned for life. Twenty were acquitted. The remaining 9 were sentenced to death in absentia.
Date of source: Thursday, April 22, 1999 to Wednesday, April 28, 1999
Egyptian prosecutors have remanded in custody for 15 days several suspected members of the militant group jihad, some of whom had been deported from another state, an official daily said on April 15.
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 1999
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The military court yesterday handed down sentences in the Jihad revival case, which includes 107 suspects 60 of which are fugitives. The court ruled the execution of nine of the suspects among whom is Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahri, head of the military wing of the Jihad group who has...
Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 1999 to Wednesday, April 21, 1999
An Egyptian military court on April 10, postponed a session at which verdicts were due in the cases of 107 Muslim militants said to belong to the militant Jihad group. "Two of the judges, including Court President Brigadier Ahmed Al-Anwar, have not handled cases of Islamists before," defense...
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 10, 1999
Only 43 suspected militants out of 107 defendants listed on the indictment bill were present at the opening of the military trial on Monday of leading figures in Egypt’s second largest, but more violent, militant organization -- Islamic Jihad.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 15, 1998
Since the setback of June 1967, the Al-Ahram paper has lost its credibility in covering Egypt’s internal affairs. 760 repentant Muslim extremists were released but stories of torture committed by police to extract confessions are frequently coming back.
Date of source: Friday, December 11, 1998
In a positive reaction to the Gama’at al-Islamiya’s decision a year ago to stop violence, the Ministry of Interior released last Monday the largest number of detainees this year.
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