Tag: Salafi

Former presidential candidate Abu Ismail sentenced to 5 years in prison

Charges include using power and violence against prosecution members, says state-run newspaper 

Adham Youssef Adham Youssef

14 Salafi leaders acquitted

Defendants expected to be released Monday, to be put under probation

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Appeal process begins for programme host Islam El-Beheiry

El-Beheiry is appealing a sentence of five years imprisonment for charges of…

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Al-Nour Party focuses on making promises for electoral campaign 

Party candidates promise voters to develop roads, schools, hospitals and health insurance

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Salafi Calling old guards re-elected

Group argues “pro-Brotherhood” candidates lost elections

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Setting the stage: The 2012 Abbaseya clashes

Although the political dispute between the State and the Islamists intensified after…

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Court upholds Abu Ismail’s prison sentence

Salafi preacher convicted of forging official documents to run in 2012 presidential…

Adham Youssef Adham Youssef

Al-Azhar files complaint against TV show, accuses presenter of ‘distorting Islam’s teachings’

Statement by the religious institution is violation to freedom of religion

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Salafi leaders back to mosques after restrictions

Ministry of Religious Endowment accepts sermons by Borhamy and Makhyoun

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More Islamists referred to military tribunals

Since 1950s, special military courts used as judicial tool to crack down…

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