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Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 2004
This is not the
first time I go through the harship of takfir [being accused of unbelief]. I read in a newspaper
on June 25 that they received news from the Azhar saying that my book “Shukran Bin Laden” [thank
you Bin Laden] was confiscated and banned from circulation. Are our masters the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights [EOHR] called on President Mubarak,
in a recent statement, not to ratify the rulings issued by the State Security Court, or
“emergency courts,” in what is known as the Izderaa al-Adyan case, or the blasphemy case. The
statement expressed the...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 14, 2001
The Cairo Appeal Court set November 24 as a date for the expelled monk Barsoum Al-Moharaqi to be tried before the Supreme State Security Court. The Supreme State Security Prosecution has charged him with disdaining Christianity, assuming the identity of a clergyman, violating the laws of national...
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.
16. The final judgment in the case against the editor in chief of Al-Nabaa will be given in two days
Date of source: Friday, September 14, 2001
The State Security Misdemeanor Court will hand down its final ruling regarding the case of Mamdouh Mahran, the editor in chief of both Al-Nabaa and Akher Khabar papers, the day after tomorrow. Mahran was accused of publishing an article accompanied by pornographic photos about the sexual life of...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 5, 2001
The Administrative Judiciary Court postponed giving its verdict on a lawsuit filed by the Editor-in-Chief of Al-Nabaa until December 18. The lawsuit was to stop implementation of the Prosecution’s decision to refer him to the State Security Misdemeanor Court for the scandalous photos he published...
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: Monday, August 13, 2001
The case of Mamdouh Mahran, the Editor-in-Chief of Al-Nabaa, was reserved to September 16. Mahran’s lawyer said that referring Mahran to the Higher State Security Emergency court was unconstitutional. He asked for the head of Al-Moharraq monastery to introduce a report about the expelled monk and...
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2001
The Cassation Court accepted the appeals presented by the Prosecutor General and the families of the victims of Al-Kosheh riots against the rulings handed down in the case. The court decided to retry all 92 defendants of the case under a different Assiut court.
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.
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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.