Court orders Britons' books screened to see if they comply with Islamic law
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- Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 17:23:12 +0000 (GMT)
An Egyptian court trying a group of alleged militants
ordered on Sunday that three books belonging to a
British defendant be screened to see if they
prohibited Islamic law, court officials said.
The contents and titles of the books belonging to Reza
Pankhurst, one of three Britons among 26 people
accused of being Islamic militants, were not revealed,
the officials said on condition of anonymity.
Pankhurst and fellow Britons Ian Malcolm Nisbett and
Maajid Nawaz are among a group of men charged with
belonging to an organization, "Hizb-ut-Tahrir" or
Party of Liberation, and trying to overthrow the
government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to
establish Islamic rule.
During an October court hearing, Egyptian defendant
Alaa el-Zanatai told The Associated Press that
Hizb-ut-Tahrir's books and publications "are quite
known and could be identified easily, but documents
have been added to show we were pro-violence."
A committee of scholars at the Faculty of Islamic
Jurisprudence at Cairo's Al Azhar University, the
premier scholarly institution in the Sunni Muslim
world, is expected to review the books and report back
to the court Monday.
The three Britons have said while in custody they were
beaten and given electric shocks. But doctors reports
presented in October indicated no sign of
mistreatment.
The British defendants told the AP that they were
associated with the Islamic Liberation Party in the
United Kingdom, although they insisted that they were
not involved in any political activities in Egypt.
The party was formed in Jordan in 1953 by Taqi Eddin
al-Nabahani, a Palestinian who died in the Palestinian
territories in 1978. The group has long been
underground and its current leader is Palestinian
Abdul-Kaddim Zalloum, whose whereabouts are unknown.
Egypt banned the group in 1974, accusing it of a coup
attempt.
Source: Associated Press
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