The World - News from Aug. 7, 1985
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An Egyptian state security court ruled that the government was holding an Islamic fundamentalist leader illegally and ordered him released. Sheik Hafez Salama, 70, was arrested July 13 and charged with instigating resistance to the government, possession of anti-government pamphlets and other political offenses. Salama advocates imposing sharia-- the 1,300-year-old Muslim legal code--in Egypt, which has a secular legal system based on Western European models. It was not immediately clear when Salama would be freed from custody.
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