Displaying 261 - 270 of 278.
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: 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, April 15, 1999 to Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Egypt has referred 22 Muslim militants to a military court accused of planning to blow up a military target and belonging to an illegal group, security forces said on April 6.
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An Egyptian state security court sentenced 14 Muslim militants to up to 15 years in jail with hard labor on March 8 for arson attacks on video shops.
Date of source: Monday, March 8, 1999
The fate of the new Personal Status Law depended over the last few days on the juridical approval of Sheikh Al-Azhar, Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi. The law was amended in a series of meetings of the Jurisprudence Research Committee affiliated to Mogamma` Al-Buhouth Al-Islameyya (Islamic Research...
Date of source: Monday, March 1, 1999
Marriage among Christians in Egypt has become a time bomb that may blow up anytime to increase the disputes among Christian churches and create a crisis in the Coptic Orthodox Church. More than 44,000 Copts have obtained divorce decrees, but they are unable to get permissions for a second marriage...
Date of source: Thursday, February 18, 1999 to Wednesday, February 24, 1999
Many young people are coming to believe that Urfi marriage is the only legitimate alternative to premarital sex, which is condemned as sinful. Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, called upon the government to ban Urfi marriages at a Fair seminar last week, saying that "these...
Date of source: Sunday, February 14, 1999 to Saturday, February 20, 1999
Forty-four suspected Islamic militants pleaded not guilty to charges of plotting to unseat the regime when they appeared in a military court on February 4. Most asked the judge to discredit their alleged confessions, because they claim the confessions were extracted under torture.
Date of source: Sunday, February 7, 1999 to Saturday, February 13, 1999
State repression of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement has increased considerably in recent years, according to a report released by the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) on January 12.
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