It was reported that after the Sept

It was reported that after the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, the case of Sheik Nashat Ibrahim and others was transferred from the state security court to the military prosecutor, allowing the charges to be reviewed and expanded.
Sheik Nashat Ibrahim was arrested in May as a central figure in a network that had collected about $1 million over two years for causes ranging from Muslim rebels in Chechnya to the Islamic Resistance Movement in Gaza and the West Bank, according to a lawyer involved in the case.
The defendants now face the death penalty for charges that include planning terrorist attacks in Egypt, possessing weapons and explosives, and trying to smuggle fighters into the Gaza Strip and Chechnya, according to Al Hayat.
The military court handling the case has not discussed it publicly. A separate case involving 170 other defendants, based on events from the early and mid-1990s, is being pushed through the courts.
The defendants have been detained without due process, said Hafez Abu Seada, secretary general of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights. He contended that the mood of the country and the world since Sept. 11 has become such that the government decided to "legalize" their detention with a trial and sentencing, rather than hold them informally with the prospect of eventual release. "This is an opportunity for the Egyptian government ... and the public will accept it, in and outside Egypt," he said.