Two months later, a court extended their custody for 30 days to allow further police questioning, adding that they have confessed to have come to Egypt in order to spread their doctrine.
Human rights director of the Church of Scientology, Leisa Goodman, denied these claims on behalf of the church and said that the couple was in the country representing the Italian branch of New Era Publications, a firm that publishes the works of L. Ron Hubbard, to promote Hubbard's book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, stressing that the authorities had allowed the book's entry to Egypt.
[2] The two were finally released the next month and the court ruled that condemning people for adopting new ideas is a violation of human rights.
[5] Narconon Egypt is a drug abuse treatment center based in Ismailia Governorate, previously in Fayoum.
[6][7] It is a branch of the Narconon organization, a Scientology front group that promotes L. Ron Hubbard's unscientific methods of detoxifying the body.