Date of source: Thursday, March 14, 2002
Egypt´s most well-known human rights activist, Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, is now censored by his wife to keep him out of prison. The judge decided to reopen the case against Ibrahim and to set him free pending a new sentence.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Professors at the AUC responded in utter amazement to the sentence against their colleague Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim. His arrest and sentence to seven years prison was preceded by much negative press that should have served as a warning that something was going wrong. A personal friend of Ibrahim...
Date of source: Saturday, November 11, 2000
It took a while for the European Union to respond to Ibrahim´s arrest. By november he had expected an official protest since they had supported his work financially. His arrest on June 30 had a paralyzing effect on human rights activists. Locking someone up in Egypt is the top of a range of...
Date of source: Saturday, July 15, 2000
Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim is arrested and the Egyptian press has taken care of damaging his reputation. Have the Egyptian authorities really found something in violation of the law or have they just let the mud become muddier? “Ibrahim, is what one calls a donor-darling” a well-informed source says. “...
Date of source: Friday, July 7, 2000
[The title is a mistake of the editor. Ibrahim is not Coptic. The proposed title was: Egypt´s reputation endangered.] The arrest of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim was preceded by an extremely negative Egyptian press. It seemed as if this functioned as a warning for worse to come. People close to...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 24, 1999
Population growth of 2.3 %, increasing poverty and a deadly Islamic terror. Dr. Usama el-Baz, political advisor of President Mubarak, expects fundamentalism to disappear in a few years time but Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, political sociologist at the American University in Cairo does not believe this.
Date of source: Monday, July 22, 2002
The Supreme State Security Court continued hearing the prosecution´s pleading in the case of Saad Eddin Ibrahim. The head of the State Security Prosecution accused Ibrahim of fraud and deceiving the European Union.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Western press reporting about the court case of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim.
Date of source: Thursday, June 27, 2002
The Higher Court of National Security continued hearing the case against the Ibn Khaldoun Center. Videotapes that were confiscated from the center were shown in court and the defense was allowed to write comments on them.
Date of source: Saturday, May 25, 2002
The Supreme State Security Court will continue the re-trial of Saad Eddin Ibrahim. The court will hear the testimony of one of the prosecution witnesses as the defense of the sixth defendant insisted on hearing his testimony. Some judicial sources expect the court to pass judgment next Thursday.