Date of source: Sunday, November 18, 2001
The Egyptian Supreme Military Court will start the trial of 94 fundamentalists charged with joining a secret organization which aims to overthrow the established regime. They possessed weapons and explosives claiming to support the Palestinian intifada and the Mujahideen in Chechnya.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 29, 2001
The State Security Prosecution continues its investigations of 85 people charged with attempting to supply weapons for the Palestinian intifada and financial aid to Chechnya. Sheikh Nasha’at Ahmed Ibrahim is claimed to be the leader of the group, most of whose members come from well-to-do families.
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2001 to Friday, August 31, 2001
Sixteen imprisoned members of the Brotherhood, including a number of professional syndicate activists, filed a lawsuit demanding to be released, arguing that they were convicted under item 48 of the penal code, which the Constitutional Court annulled.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2001
The Guidance Office of the Muslim Brotherhood refused to allow one of the group’s lawyers to file a lawsuit demanding the application of article 48 [of the Penalties Law] to help release those who were convicted in the case of the professional syndicates.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2001
Abud Al-Zumor, the Jihad member who was among the first to sign the initiative denouncing violence was moved from Tora prison, where the members of the shura council of Al-Gama’at Al-Islamiya are serving various prison sentences, to Abu Zabal prison. This was believed to be a step to separate the...
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2001
One of the members of the military wing of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya surrendered himself to the police after hiding for seven years. He confessed that he knew nothing about religious matters, yet he was chosen for the military wing because he was well built.
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2001 to Friday, August 17, 2001
The author believes the Muslim Brotherhood helped Amr Khalid to become the sheikh of the elite and prevented him from teaching.
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
The leader of the military wing of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya and another member of the wing were referred to the Emergency State Security Court. They are accused of joining an illegal group with the purpose of disrupting the rule of law and doing harm to social peace.
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
Sheikh Amr Khalid is attacked for being an AUC graduate and not a specialist in religion and for being a young preacher, the majority of whose audience are teenagers. The author believes that being young is not a point against him as he has a talent for preaching. He is using a language that suits...
Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2001
The sentences of the members of the Gama’at Al-Islamiyya and Jihad organizations, who issued the initiative to cease violence, will end on October 12. The former head of the State Security said that there is no doubt that the cease-violence initiative contributed to the fact that many of the secret...