Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : War -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (11375)	2/8/2002 5:07:34 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Israel isn't the only ME country where dissenting voices are allowed to pipe up.... Al-Ahram Weekly Online 7 - 13 February 2002 Issue No.572 Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 The tip of the iceberg As European countries step up their cooperation with Egypt in the global war on terrorism, a human rights organisation has expressed concern about the future of those extradited, reports Jailan Halawi Amnesty International has announced that two men extradited by Sweden to Egypt in December were being held at a prison outside of Cairo in late January. Amnesty, a London-based human rights organisation, issued a report on 1 February saying that the Swedish ambassador, Sven G Linder, had visited the two men, identified as 39-year-old Ahmed Hussein Egeiza and 33-year-old Mohamed Ibrahim El-Zarri, on 23 January at Mazra'a Tora Prison, south of Cairo. Sweden announced that it was deporting Egeiza and El-Zarri on 18 December after rejecting their requests for political asylum on the grounds that they were suspected of committing "terrorist acts" in Egypt. Egypt had not issued public statements or informed the men's families as to their whereabouts. Egeiza, said to be the leader of the underground Islamist group the Vanguards of the Conquest that is affiliated with the Jihad group, was tried in absentia and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1999. His case, dubbed the "Returnees from Albania," was heard by a military court. Egeiza's name was also on the 14-man wanted list that Egypt issued in 1997 following the Luxor massacre, which left 58 foreigners and four Egyptians dead. Montasser El-Zayyat, lawyer of the underground group Al-Gama'a Al- Islamiya, has filed an appeal on behalf of Egeiza with the ratification office, which is attached to the presidency and is concerned with ratifying military tribunal sentences. The appeal calls for overturning Egeiza's sentence and holding a retrial. [snip] ahram.org.eg