Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
Recent arrests of Muslim Brotherhood members appear linked to the government’s decision to allow lawyers’ syndicate election to take place.
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
The crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood continued as the prosecutor-general extended the detention of 20 alleged Brotherhood activists, arrested two weeks ago, by another 15 days pending investigation.
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
Interview of al-Arabi with Montasser Al-Zayat, the lawyer of Gama’at al-Islamiya. Al-Arabi accused him of maneuvering, spoke about the termination of his role and the death of the Gama’at al-Islamiya and its weakness. Zayat, instead, calls himself a mediator between the Gama’at al-Islamiya and the...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
In Egypt, setting up a political organization can be quite an unpleasant experience, especially if one boasts controversial religious credentials. Nevertheless, some former members of the militant Jihad, the group blamed for a series of murders in the 1980s and 1990s including the assassination of...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Egyptians opposed to the trial of civilians by the military celebrated when Egypt’s Higher Administrative Court (HAC) invalidated the practice on August 8. The ruling specifically targeted a 1986 presidential decree which referred some 77 Islamic militants suspected of conspiring to blow up video...
Date of source: Sunday, July 18, 1999
An examination of the human rights situation in Egypt shows that it is even worse than one might expect, says a new report issued jointly by three human rights organizations on July 12.
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
The US has officially charged Ayman El-Zawahri, leader of the underground Jihad group, and his aide, Khaled El-Fawwaz, with involvement in the twin bombings of its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania last August. El-Zawahri is believed to reside in Afghanistan while El-Fawwaz is under arrest in...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
The Supreme Military Court wrote the final chapter last Thursday in a mysterious saga involving suspected members of the country’s largest militant organization, Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya. Twenty-one defendants had been charged with planning to revive the group’s activities in the Mediterranean city of...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Unlike previous sentences no member of the Gama’at al-Islamiya has been sentenced to death. This is perhaps related to the Gama’at’s denouncement of the use of violence and their stop on violent activities since last year.
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
Twenty-one suspected militants were sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor or 5 to 15 years with hard labor. The suspects were accused of plotting to reactivate the militant Al Gamaa Al Islamiyya and of conspiring to blow up Alexandria’s Montazah Palace in 1996 during the time President...