CIP Protests Arrests of Egyptian Religious Intellectuals

CIP
June 3, 2007

http://www.islamicpluralism.org/381/cip-protests-arrests-of-egyptian-religious-intellectuals

The Center for Islamic Pluralism vigorously protests the reported arrests of four Egyptian religious intellectuals affiliated with the International Quranic Center established by one of our founders, Imam Ahmed Subhy Mansour. We are informed that the arrests were purely ideological in nature and have no basis in any legal proceeding.

The four arrested are:

• Adellatif Mohamed Saied, aged 40;
• Ahmed Dahmash, 30;
• Abdelhamed Abdelrahman, 26,
• and Amr Tharwat, aged 25.

CIP calls on the Egyptian authorities to release the arrested men, and on U.S. diplomats, as well as international human rights monitors, to demand a full accounting of this case from the Egyptian government.

Stephen Suleyman Schwartz
Executive Director
Center for Islamic Pluralism
Washington, DC, USA

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