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Date of source: Monday, October 22, 2012
The Nasr City Court of Misdemeanor saw a heated third session of the trial of Ahmad Muhammad Mahmūd, alias Abū Islām, who, along with his son Islām and a journalist called Hānī Yāsīn, is facing charges of disdaining Christianity in public and the tearing and burning of a copy of the Bible during...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The al-Haram Appellate Court of Misdemeanor will hand down a ruling in the September 12 session on the case in which top Egyptian actor ‘Ādil Imām is accused of disdaining religion.
The first instance court had sentenced Imām to three months in jail and payment of a bail of LE100 (roughly $17).
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2013
The Masr al-Gidīdah Misdemeanor Appeal Court has decided that it would withdraw from the case of insulting religion against Ahmad Abdallah known as Abū-Islām and his son. The primary court has ruled to punish the former with 11 years and the latter with 8 years. Both of the defendants have torn and...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 3, 2013
The appeal trial of Damyānah ‘Abīd, a Christian teacher from Luxor, who is accused of defamation of Islam and evangelizing among her students in Nag’ al-Shaykh Sultān primary school in southern Luxor, has upheld the misdemeanor of the appellant today, Tuesday (September 3). The appeal was made by...
Date of source: Friday, May 2, 2014
Al-Waily Misdemeanor Appeals court has ruled to punish Ahmad Muhammad Abd Allah, more known as Abu Islam, with jail for 6 months in the second lawsuit presented by Najuīb Jubrā’il, accusing him of contempt of religion.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 20, 2016
On Wednesday the 6th of October misdemeanor commuted a sentence against Taymūr Al-Sobkī, the administrator of the Facebook page “Diaries of a downtrodden citizen”. A case known in the media as “defamation of Egyptian women”. The originally sentencing of the page admin to 3 years in jail was...
Date of source: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Head of the Misdemeanor Court, Counselor Tāmir 'Abd al-Wanīs, decided to allow appeal hearings for Samuel Subhī and 'Atif 'Awad, whom are accused for causing the clashes at al-'Abbāsīyyah Cathedral during a funeral for the victims of Khusūs incident (Mustafá Harbī, al-Dustūr, Apr. 25, p. 2). Read...
Date of source: Thursday, September 13, 2012
Al-'Ajūzah Misdemeanor Court acquitted 'Adil Imām of the charges of insulting religion after his attorney submitted all the required evidence.
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Date of source: Sunday, May 9, 2010
This article deals with the issue of Houses of Worship. There is no unified law concerning the building of churches in Egypt currently, and Copts have been rallying behind this issue in recent times. A recent court ruling in Egypt stated that mosques are for the public benefit, and so there was no...
Date of source: Sunday, April 11, 2010
In March 2010, priests in Shubra were acquitted on charges of unapproved, yet structurally necessary restoration work in their churches, thereby setting an important legal precedent which confirmed the Church’s right to take necessary action without official permission. This ruling comes as a...
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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.