Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 1999 to Wednesday, June 2, 1999
Shortly after Ali Abul-Saoud Mustafa, a fugitive Egyptian Islamist, was arrested in the United States last month, he was accused by American prosecution authorities of cooperating with Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden in a worldwide anti-American conspiracy. The Egyptian government had requested...
Date of source: Thursday, May 13, 1999 to Wednesday, May 19, 1999
Canadian authorities recently arrested an Egyptian Islamist accused of involvement in the 1981 assassination of President Anwar El-Sadat and confined him in a prison near Toronto airport. Islamist sources identified the militant as Mahmoud Sayyed Gaballah, who left Egypt in 1991.
Date of source: Monday, May 17, 1999
The Administrative Judiciary Court of the State Council issued a ruling to stop the execution of and cancel the decision of the Supreme Council of Judges to ban the entry of veiled wives and daughters of judges to the premises and branches of the Judges’ Club, ruling that such a ban was a violation...
Date of source: Thursday, April 29, 1999 to Wednesday, May 5, 1999
The Court of Cassation recently ruled that a husband’s infertility does not constitute sufficient grounds for his wife to file for divorce. The court justified its ruling with the statement that the aim of marriage is not procreation, but the exercise of mu’adda [love, friendship] and rahma [mercy...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 to Wednesday, May 12, 1999
The so-called Returnees from Albania trial - the largest in the stream of military trials of Islamist militants since the assassination of President Sadat in 1981 - ended on 18 April with the usual cocktail of death sentences, prison terms and acquittals.
Date of source: Thursday, April 22, 1999 to Wednesday, April 28, 1999
This trial is the biggest trial of suspected Islamic militants since those that followed the assassination of the late President Anwar Al-Sadat.
Date of source: Thursday, April 22, 1999 to Wednesday, April 28, 1999
Of the 107 defendants tried at the Hike Step military camp, 78 were given prison sentences, 11 of whom were condemned for life. Twenty were acquitted. The remaining 9 were sentenced to death in absentia.
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 1999
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The military court yesterday handed down sentences in the Jihad revival case, which includes 107 suspects 60 of which are fugitives. The court ruled the execution of nine of the suspects among whom is Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahri, head of the military wing of the Jihad group who has...
Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 1999 to Wednesday, April 21, 1999
An Egyptian military court on April 10, postponed a session at which verdicts were due in the cases of 107 Muslim militants said to belong to the militant Jihad group. "Two of the judges, including Court President Brigadier Ahmed Al-Anwar, have not handled cases of Islamists before," defense...
Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 1999 to Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Egypt has referred 22 Muslim militants to a military court accused of planning to blow up a military target and belonging to an illegal group, security forces said on April 6.