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Date of source: Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Chris Patten: "I was dismayed to learn of these sentences and reiterate that the European Commission has no evidence of the alleged falsification of documents, which seems to have been central to the case for the prosecution. We deplore the continued use of State security courts to prosecute cases...
Date of source: Monday, July 29, 2002
Foreign Office Minister Mike O´Brien is “concerned by the abrupt decision of the judge today in the trial of Dr Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the human rights activist, and his co-defendants from the Ibn Khaldoun Centre. The verdict is difficult to understand and the haste of the judge to impose sentence...
Date of source: Monday, July 29, 2002
U.S. Chargé d´Affaires Gordon Gray expressed his disappointment and concern today at the decision by Egypt´s State Security Court to convict Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an American citizen. “On many occasions we have expressed our concern to the Egyptian government, both here and in...
Date of source: Monday, July 29, 2002
The court still hears the case of Saad Eddin Ibrahim. The prosecution says that the Ibn Khaldoun Center was founded for spying purposes and issuing reports defaming the reputation of Egypt with the aim of collecting money. The defense tries to prove that the money Ibrahim got from the EU was a...
Date of source: Saturday, June 1, 2002
[AWR: This is a full text translation of a Dutch text with permission of the author.]
Sociology professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim: “You can beat Saddam Hussein, no doubt. But what you cannot do is prevent a new Saddam Hussein from appearing, a new Bin Laden. As long as there is no democracy, no state...
Date of source: Thursday, March 14, 2002
Egypt´s most well-known human rights activist, Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, is now censored by his wife to keep him out of prison. The judge decided to reopen the case against Ibrahim and to set him free pending a new sentence.
23. Seven years for human rights activist Eddin Ibrahim. Egyptian professor sentenced for “slander.”
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Professors at the AUC responded in utter amazement to the sentence against their colleague Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim. His arrest and sentence to seven years prison was preceded by much negative press that should have served as a warning that something was going wrong. A personal friend of Ibrahim...
Date of source: Saturday, November 11, 2000
It took a while for the European Union to respond to Ibrahim´s arrest. By november he had expected an official protest since they had supported his work financially. His arrest on June 30 had a paralyzing effect on human rights activists. Locking someone up in Egypt is the top of a range of...
Date of source: Saturday, July 15, 2000
Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim is arrested and the Egyptian press has taken care of damaging his reputation. Have the Egyptian authorities really found something in violation of the law or have they just let the mud become muddier? “Ibrahim, is what one calls a donor-darling” a well-informed source says. “...
Date of source: Friday, July 7, 2000
[The title is a mistake of the editor. Ibrahim is not Coptic. The proposed title was: Egypt´s reputation endangered.] The arrest of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim was preceded by an extremely negative Egyptian press. It seemed as if this functioned as a warning for worse to come. People close to...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.