Egypt: EOHR Calls for Litigation Rules Well-Matched to International Standards

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The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) expresses sorrow for the questioning Dr. Youssef Zeidan on February 19, 2013, at the Prosection General Office, on the lawsuit no. 686, year 2010, for compiling a book entitled "Arab Theology". The prosecution office gave him a month to prepare his responses to the accusations.

In 2010 to the book of Dr. Zeidan was rejected by the Islamic Research Council, which has also in addition to that filed an official memorandum to the State Security Prosecution Office accusing Zeidan of "contempt of religions". Although the lawsuit has been filed in 2010, the author has just been questioned this week.

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