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He also led a mosque community in First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Haram, in the Giza area adjacent to Cairo. He was accused of “insulting a heavenly religion,” a misdemeanor under Article 98-F of the Egyptian penal code. Although his release by a court in Cairo on July 30, 2006 was issued, the Supplemental Security Income deliberately ignored this decision and transferred el-Akkad to the maximum security Wadi el-Natroun Prison, where the majority of Egyptian Islamists sentenced for anti-government activities are incarcerated.
He was finally released from prison on April 28, 2007, after having been held without charges for two years.
