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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...
Date of source: Saturday, May 5, 2001 to Friday, May 11, 2001
Islamist lawyers broke into two fronts; one supporting Montasser Al-Zayyat and announced him to be its secretary general. The other front removed him from his position. Al-Zayyat was accused by some members of the Islamist Lawyers’ general assembly of defaming the Islamist Lawyers and seeking...
Date of source: Thursday, April 19, 2001
The Islamic Lawyers Association decided to choose Montasser Al-Zayyat as its general secretary. It also held a meeting at which it was decided not to suspend the activities of the Association any longer and to delay electing its board members.
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2001
Islamist Lawyers Abroad have renewed their trust in Montasser Al-Zayyat as secretary general of their association. The association [Islamist Lawyers Front] survived the disagreements among its members, which caused Al-Zayyat to hand in his resignation. Al-Zayyat’s resignation was rejected at a...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 2, 2000
The members of the Islamist Lawyer’s Front overcame the crisis, which led to its secretary’s, Montasser Al-Zayyat, attempted resignation. At a meeting of members of the Front Al-Zayyat’s resignation was rejected. They declared their support for Zayyat in the coming Bar Association elections.
Date of source: Saturday, December 16, 2000
Disagreements within the Islamist Lawyers’ Front led to the resignation of Montasser Al-Zayyat, its secretary general. Al-Zayyat said that he wrote the resignation last April, but he delayed submitting it until after the date of the elections of the Bar Association was set, fearing that it might be...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 19, 2000
Eleven leaders from the military wing of Al-Jihad, issued a statement in which they renewed their support for the initiative to renounce violence, which, according to them, is for their benefit and for the benefit of all the imprisoned members. They called the leaders of the group to return to...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
Al-Arabi has learned that Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman amir [commander] and mufti of Islamic groups has agreed to issue a request to the Egyptian authorities declaring his wish to return to his homeland.
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
Interview of al-Arabi with Montasser Al-Zayat, the lawyer of Gama’at al-Islamiya. Al-Arabi accused him of maneuvering, spoke about the termination of his role and the death of the Gama’at al-Islamiya and its weakness. Zayat, instead, calls himself a mediator between the Gama’at al-Islamiya and the...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Unlike previous sentences no member of the Gama’at al-Islamiya has been sentenced to death. This is perhaps related to the Gama’at’s denouncement of the use of violence and their stop on violent activities since last year.
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