Charges of foreign funds use against more activist Egyptians
Egypt, Politics, 7/3/2000

The U.S embassy in Cairo said that it has not yet been allowed to meet Saad El-Din Ibrahim the prominent Egyptian academic who has the U.S citizenship and was arrested last Friday.

Ibrahim works in the area of enhancing democracy and the human rights in the Arab states and was accused of receiving foreign funds in order to harm Egypt's interests and some of the Arab states. He made reports about the internal positions in Egypt, Tunis and Morocco.

Thus, the supreme state security accused Ibrhaim (head of the venter) and Nadia Abu El-Nour ( financial manager of the center) with fraud, forgery, international bribery, stating that they are promoting propaganda that could shake the stability, security and the country's interests as well as receiving sums from foreign fronts.

His lawyer Hafez Abu Seada said that it is believed that the detention aims at preventing Saad Ibrahim from forming a plan for an independent committee to observe the coming elections and that this is the second time during the last months that charges of receiving funds from abroad have been addressed to critics of the Egyptian government.

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