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: Thursday, July 5, 2001
Saad Eddin Ibrahim’s wife wrote in the New York Times that President Mubarak was angry with Ibrahim because he expressed his frustration when the President was late for a meeting Ibrahim participated in. It was also written that the President was angry about what Ibrahim wrote about Copts and his...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2001
The Emergency State Security Misdemeanor court continues looking into the case of Al-Nabaa and Akher Khabar. The attorney of the editor-in-Chief of both papers argued that the court allowed third parties who claimed to be victims to interfere and have copies of the case’s documents, which made the...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 3, 2001
Tomorrow the Egyptian Administrative Court is to end the controversy about Al-Nabaa newspaper. It will also look into two cases filed by Mamdouh Mahran. In the first he tries to override a verbal ruling by the Minister of Interior prohibiting the press house from operating and in the second he...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2001
Said Al-Naggar sent a message to Saad Eddin Ibrahim. In this message he referred to Ibrahim as someone who threw himself into sincere research and studies with all his power to raise Egypt’s rank among the nations. He asked Ibrahim to consider whether he has done something wrong pertaining to his...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Fahmi Howeidi believes that anger ruined the right way of handling the case of the expelled monk. Instead of regarding it as an attempt to attack the public system, violating the traditions of the journalism profession, it was regarded as a matter concerning only Copts. The angry people did not...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 19, 2001
Yesterday the Higher State Security Court in Egypt gave its reasons for finding all the defendants in the Ibn-Khaldoun Center case guilty. They concentrated on the legal part of the case and did not discuss the campaign adopted by American and western bodies against the verdict. They explained they...
Date of source: Thursday, June 21, 2001
The Supreme Council for the Press started a lawsuit to ban Al-Nabaa. The council condemned publication of improper photographs and threatening society’s values. Some council members expressed their conviction that freedom of the press must be responsible. Mamdouh Mahran testified that he was the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2001
Many articles were written in the European and American press about the sentence imposed on Saad Eddin Ibrahim by the State Security Court. He was found guilty of some of the charges made against him and was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. State Security courts are based on article 171 of...
Date of source: Thursday, May 3, 2001
The assistant of Saad Eddin Ibrahim is investigated for preparing [to publish] a book titled "An intellectual under siege." The prosecution has charged him with promoting a publication that contains information about a case still being examined by the court. There is a possibility of accusing...