Date of source:
Pope Shenouda announced his
"Marmorqos"
[St. Mark] list of competitors in the Majlis al-Millī elections. He said that not only should the
candidate
be a good person, but that he is required to work in harmony with the rest of the members. There are a
small number of candidates from the...
Date of source:
After examining the reasons on which the
court based its ruling in al-Kosheh action, the
Attorney General decided to appeal against it. The Judge,
who gave the ruling in al-Kosheh action, said that the
prosecution had the right to appeal against the
ruling and that he gave the ruling with a...
Date of source:
The Brotherhood won 16 seats out of the 24 on the Bar
Association’s board.
Ragai Atteya, the government’s candidate, who they declared their support for, lost to the
Nasserist’s
candidate Samah Ashour, who won the Bar Association’s top post. Montasser al-Zayyat, the lawyer of
the
Gama’at al-...
Date of source:
Two days before the trial
against
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Amnesty International announced its concern about the possibility of political motives
behind the trial. It published a statement saying that the Egyptian authorities did not follow
international
standards for fair trials, describing...
Date of source:
The elections
of the Bar Association were postponed until February 24
because the quorum required by law was not
achieved. The Brotherhood declared its support for the government’s
candidate for the Association’s top
post, claiming that he was the best candidate. They also included the name of...
Date of source: Saturday, February 10, 2001
Pope Shenouda said that he will not visit Jerusalem without his Muslim brothers and that he cannot visit Jerusalem with an Israeli entry visa. But if he woud receive a visa from president Yasser Arafat, he would go. He added that visiting Jerusalem under Israeli occupation amounts to normalization...
Date of source:
The Criminal Court of Sohag gave its verdict in al-Kosheh case, in
which
57 Muslims and 39 Copts were accused. Ninety-two defendants were set free and four Muslim defendants were
sentenced to between one and ten years imprisonment. No one was convicted of murder, although 21 Christians
were...
Date of source:
The Supreme Court of State Security sentenced Salah
El-Dīn Mohsen, who is accused of disdaining
religions, to three years hard labor. The court also ruled that all of
his books should be confiscated
because they contain extremist thoughts and defame the Divine Being. Mohsen said
that he was...
Date of source:
The efforts of
the Shaykh of the Azhar to dissolve the Azhar Scholars Front and
to turn it into "The benevolent
organization for helping the children of the workers in the Azhar," have succeeded.
The Supreme Court of
Administrative Justice ruled to dissolve the Front and to change both its...
Date of source:
The
hearing sessions of the case of the Ibn Khaldoun Center, in which Saad Eddin Ibrahim and 27 of his aides
are
accused of forgery and financial contravention, started. al-Hayat listed the details of the two
sessions and the
defenses discussions with the witness for prosecution. al-Sharq al-...