Latest in Tag: Islam El-Beheiry Highlight
Latest in Tag: Islam El-Beheiry

Al-Azhar lawsuit against TV presenter Islam El-Beheiry postponed
The lawsuit was filed in 2015 accusing the TV presenter of “deliberately aiming to make people question their beliefs”

Presidency issues pardons to 82 detainees, names yet to be revealed
Researcher Islam El-Beheiry featured among pardoned ahead of his last month in prison

Fatima Naoot safe from prison: defence lawyer
Egyptian writer skipped court session for international conference in Canada; previously sentenced to 3 years for ‘religious contempt’

Citizen detained for burning Islamic teachings in front of Al-Azhar
Charges of ‘contempt of religion’ continue despite widespread calls for law to be appealed

Court postpones Al-Azhar lawsuit against El-Beheiry to 4 April
El-Beheiry to appeal ”contempt of religion” verdict on 21 March, says Sadek

4 minors sentenced to 5 years in prison for charges of ‘religious contempt’
Coptic teenagers in Minya accused of producing video ‘insulting’ Islam

Ahmed Nagy: the widening chasm between constituted authority and ad hoc governance
The constitution allows for freedom of expression, but in practice, the state is denying them: Mossaad

El-Beheiry to serve 1-year sentence after motion to appeal is denied
El-Beheiry was accused contempt of religion and insulting Al-Azhar, Egypt’s largest Islamic institution

Fatima Naoot sentenced to 3 years for ‘insulting Islam’
The writer was charged with contempt of religion

Religion, social unawareness, and freedoms of belief and speech
Can closed societies be receptive to reform or secularism?

Misr Al-Qadima court accepts change of judge and delay in El-Beheiry’s appeal hearing
Story Committee nominated El-Beheiry as one of two most controversial personalities in Egypt in 2015

Islam El-Beheiry demands suspension of prison term
Court scheduled a session on 4 January

ANHRI demands acquittal of TV-presenter Islam El-Beheiry
The controversial researcher was sentenced to five years in prison

TV presenter Islam El-Beheiry’s imprisonment upheld
The independent researcher was accused of insulting the Islamic doctrine