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Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
A number of imprisoned Brotherhood members attested before the prosecution that police tortured them. The accused members insisted that they could prove they were tortured in the police station. Twelve members attested that they were tortured by police in an attempt to force them to make...
Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
For the first time, the Ministry of Interior announces the death of one of its detainees, Akram Al-Zohari, who had been imprisoned in Mazra’et Tura prison. The Ministry delegated a committee from the parliament to go and listen to members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Two days before Zohari ’s death,...
Date of source: Thursday, December 13, 2001
The article is a comment by Usama Rushdie, a leader in the Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya, on the memoirs of Ayman Al-Zawahri. He stressed that the opinion he expressed in the article does not represent the attitude of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya as he is not authorized to speak on behalf of them.
Date of source: Sunday, December 9, 2001
In his book "Knights under the flag of the Prophet," Ayman Al-Zawahri directed much criticism against Montasser Al-Zayyat, the fundamentalists’ lawyer, for sponsoring the initiative to cease violence. Al-Zawahri claimed that Al-Zayyat enjoys security facilities that many ministers do not enjoy and...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Saad Eddin Ibrahim hopes to be retried, especially as the court declared the military decree under which he was tried and convicted unconstitutional. December 19 was the date set for deciding about the appeal he lodged against the seven-year prison sentence he was given in the case against the Ibn...
Date of source: Saturday, June 30, 2001
The Egyptian authority released two leaders of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya who were sentenced to 15 years in the case of Sadat’s assassination. The release came one week before the four-year anniversary of the peace initiative declared by the leaders of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya.
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2001
Several wings within the Brotherhood are looking to fill the position of the general guide after Mustafa Mashhour. Some outsiders think succession in the Brotherhood is a result of conflict between the elders and the middle generation. Others claim that it is a power struggle between the "secret"...
3. A campaign against the Mufti because of his fatwa that forbids defending anyone accused of spying
Date of source: Thursday, December 14, 2000
The Mufti issued a fatwa stating that defending a person who is accused of spying is haram [religiously forbidden] and that the one who helps to free such a person is a partner in the sin. The fatwa was met with much resistance. The mother of Sherif Al-Felali, who is accused of spying for Israel...
Date of source: Saturday, November 11, 2000
Through an interview with Yasser Al-Serri, one the most famous Egyptian extremists, now living in London, the writer exposed the opportunism of the extremists and their mercurial ability at tailoring the Halal and Haram [permitted and forbidden according to Islam] to suit their purposes. While...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 26, 2000
The family visited Dr. Ibrahim in prison and wrote that he appears to be doing very well both health wise and mentally.
In a second letter the family wrote that the Egyptian State Security Police Prosecutor (ESSPP) extended Dr. Saadeddin Ibrahim’s detention for another 15 days without bringing...
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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.