Foreign Funds for NGOs case no. 1110 year 2012 Kasr al Nile

Type: Felony

Case no.: 1110 year 2012 Kasr al Nile registered no. 10 inclusive

Case year: 2011

Adverse: Public Prosecution

Representation: Accusation authority

First Verdict

Date: 4-6-2013

Judges:  President – Makram Mohamed Awad

Members – Sobhi al Labban and Hani Abdul Halim

Court: Cairo Criminal Court

Department:   ninth South Cairo

No. of Defendants: 43

Accusations:

Defendants from the first to the tenth and from the 15th to the 25th and from the 30th to the 33rd and from the 37th to the 40th and the 42nd and 43rd: founding and managing headquarters for international organizations in Egypt without a license from the Egyptian government – receiving and accepting directly finances and interests from a foreign body outside Egypt to commit the mentioned crime.

Defendants from 11th to 14th, from 26th to the 29th, from the 34th to 36th and the 41st defendant: participating through agreement and assistance with others to commit the crime of managing headquarters of international organizations in Egypt without a license from the Egyptian government – receiving and accepting directly and through mediators finances and interest from a foreign body out side and inside Egypt to commit the crime of managing headquarters of international organizations inside Egypt without a license from the Egyptian government

S Name Attending – in absentia
         1. Samuel Adam Lahhoud known as Sam Lahhoud In absentia
         2. Sherin Sehani Nanfit In absentia
         3. Christian Angel In absentia
         4. Jan Eric Sort Chak In absentia
         5. Hantz Chris Hollies In absentia
         6. Johan George Thomastviski In absentia
         7. Rida Khadra Abdul Hadi Mohamed Al Boraei In absentia
         8. Ossama Gharizi In absentia
         9. Sania Mark In absentia
      10. Jessika Elizabeth Kessine In absentia
      11. Ahmed Shawki Ahmed Mohamed Haikal Attending
      12. Ahmed Abdul Aziz Abdul Aal Ali Attending
      13. Ahmed Zakaria Arbab Adam Attending
      14. Essam Mohamed Ali Boraei Attending
      15. Jolly Inn Hughs In absentia
      16. Almadin Kortovich In absentia
      17. Good Yemir Milich In absentia
      18. Laila Wedad Gaafar In absentia
      19. Robert Fredrick Baker Attending
      20. Mariana Kovashovich In absentia
      21. Sisti Lein Hag In absentia
      22. Dana Diakono In absentia
      23. Ali Gouda al Haj Soleiman In absentia
      24. Maron Abdo Segheir In absentia
      25. Micheal James Belt Sarrow In absentia
      26. Mohamed Ashraf Omar Kamel Al Wakil Attending
      27. Rawda Said Ahmed Ali Attending
      28. Hafsa Maher Halawa Attending
      29. Amgad Mohamed Ahmed Morsi Attending
      30. Charles Dun In absentia
      31. Al Sahrif Ahmed Sobhi Mansour In absentia
      32. Samir Amin Selim Garah In absentia
      33. Mohamed Ahmed Abdul Aziz Said Attending
      34. Nancy Gamal Al Din Hussein Okail In absentia
      35. Bassem Fathi Mohamed Ali Mahmoud Attending
      36. Magdi Moharram Hassan Mostafa Attending
      37. Patrick Butler In absentia
      38. Natasha Tayns In absentia
      39. Mida Micheal Butter In absentia
      40. Yahya Zakaria Ghanem Ali Attending
      41. Islam Mohamed Ahmed Fouad Shafiq Attending
      42. Anderias Jacobs In absentia
      43. Christin Margret Buddy Attending

Verdict Text:

The court ruled in the attendance of the following defendants: from the 11th to 14th, the 19th, from 26th to the 29th, 33rd, 35th, 36th, 40th, 41st, 43rd and in absentia for the rest defendants:

First: Punishing each of the following defendants: from the first to the tenth, from the 15th to 18th, from the 20th to 25th and defendants no. 30, 32, 34, 37 38, 39, 42 with five years imprisonment and a fine of 1000 L.E.

Second: Punishing each of the following defendants no.s 19, 31, 33, 40, 43 of two years  imprisonment and a fine of 1000 L.E.

Third: Punishing each of the following defendants no.s from the 11th to the 14th and from 26th to 29th and no.s 35, 36 and 41 of one year imprisonment and a fine of 1000 L.E. and the court ordered to suspend the imprisonment penalty for three years starting from the date of the verdict issuance

Fourth: dissolving the headquarters of the International Republican Institution, National Democratic Intstitution, Freedom House, International Centre of Journalists and Konrad Adenauer and the closer of its offices and the confiscation of their finances, properties, equipments, papers and all seized elements in these offices and obliged all the defendants to pay the criminal expenses

Fifth: rejecting the civil suits and obliging the civil prosecutors to pay the expenses and an amount of 200 L.E. as attorney fees