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- Luxor Court Sentences 11 People For Stealing Antiquities
Egypt Independent The Luxor Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced in absentia six people to life imprisonment and five others to 10 years in prison for armed robbery of the antiquity storage area belonging to the German mission in...
- Exhibition: Phoenix Ancient Art To Show Early Faience
The Sacramento Bee A spectacular exhibition of ancient art works of faience from the private collection of the Aboutaam family will be on view at Phoenix Ancient Art in New York (47 East 66th Street) from December 6th-30th, 2011. The exhibition will then...
- Guardians.net Updated
The Guardians.net website, which hosts pages for Zahi Hawass, has been updated with three new posts which, though very brief, are accompanied by some excellent photographs: First Intermediate Period Discovery at Ehnasya El-MedinaNew discovery in SaqqaraNew...
- Alleged Egyptian Antiquities Smuggler Apprehended
Monsters and Critics A Lebanese antiquities dealer was arrested in Bulgaria after being charged with smuggling stolen ancient Egyptian artifacts, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said on Thursday. 'Ali Abu Taam was accused of smuggling...
- Bulgaria Say's No To Extradition
The Lebanese dealer convicted in absentia in Egypt for smuggling will not be handed over to Egyptian authorities. http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE50J04H20090120...
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Bulgaria rejects Egyptian extradition bid
Reuters Africa
A Bulgarian court has rejected an Egyptian request for the extradition of a Lebanese man sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on charges of helping an antiquities thief smuggle artefacts, the man's lawyers said on Monday.
The Egyptian government said last week that the Lebanese man, Ali Aboutaam, had been arrested in Bulgaria in connection with the charges, which led to his conviction in absentia by an Egyptian court in 2004.
But Aboutaam's Swiss-based lawyers, in a statement sent to Reuters on Monday, said that Aboutaam was free in Switzerland.
"Mr Ali Aboutaam is now in Switzerland and is completely free in his movements," said the statement from Geneva law firm Woodtli Levy Pardo and Brutsch.
See the above page for the full story.
- Luxor Court Sentences 11 People For Stealing Antiquities
Egypt Independent The Luxor Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced in absentia six people to life imprisonment and five others to 10 years in prison for armed robbery of the antiquity storage area belonging to the German mission in...
- Exhibition: Phoenix Ancient Art To Show Early Faience
The Sacramento Bee A spectacular exhibition of ancient art works of faience from the private collection of the Aboutaam family will be on view at Phoenix Ancient Art in New York (47 East 66th Street) from December 6th-30th, 2011. The exhibition will then...
- Guardians.net Updated
The Guardians.net website, which hosts pages for Zahi Hawass, has been updated with three new posts which, though very brief, are accompanied by some excellent photographs: First Intermediate Period Discovery at Ehnasya El-MedinaNew discovery in SaqqaraNew...
- Alleged Egyptian Antiquities Smuggler Apprehended
Monsters and Critics A Lebanese antiquities dealer was arrested in Bulgaria after being charged with smuggling stolen ancient Egyptian artifacts, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said on Thursday. 'Ali Abu Taam was accused of smuggling...
- Bulgaria Say's No To Extradition
The Lebanese dealer convicted in absentia in Egypt for smuggling will not be handed over to Egyptian authorities. http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE50J04H20090120...