Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 30, 2011
The Copts for Egypt movement called on political parties and movements to boycott elections because rushing into elections during this state of lawlessness the country is going through will only bring bad results.
[Reviewer's Note: New story was also covered in al-Ahālī, October 5, 2011 and has no...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 5, 2011
About 500 young Copts gathered Tuesday in front of the Beni Suef Governorate headquarters to protest the burning of a church in Merinab village in Edfo city, Aswan.
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 30, 2011
Giza's security apparatus and the Artistic-Productions Investigation Department carried a campaign on a number of printing houses in Dokki (Duqqī), Imbābah and al-Warrāq for reprinting books not authorized for printing by its owners.
25 thousand books, seven thousand were calling for Shiism, were...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 3, 2011
About 1,500 Coptic Egyptians staged demonstrations before the Aswan municipality headquarters in Upper Egypt on Monday to demand the construction of a church in the village of Marīnāb, close to the town of Edfu.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 2, 2011
The Supreme State Security Court on Sunday decided to postpone trying suspects accused of igniting sectarian strife in Imbaba. The decision to postpone the trial, which is now scheduled to begin on 2 November, was taken in order to hear witnesses' testimonies.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 2, 2011
The electoral platform for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party includes a proposal for a new constitution, said Ahmed Abu Baraka, a legal advisor to the party.
Abu Baraka said the party’s 60-page platform consists of two major parts, the first of which encompasses political,...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 2, 2011
The meeting on Saturday between Sami Anan, chief of staff of the armed forces, and party chiefs closed the door to the option of creating supra-constitutional principles for the new constitution, Freedom and Justice Party Secretary General Mohamed Saad al-Katatny said Sunday.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 2, 2011
US officials met with members of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party, a US diplomat said, after Washington announced it would have direct contacts with Egypt's biggest Islamist group, whose role has grown since US ally Hosni Mubarak was ousted.
Washington announced the plans in June,...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 3, 2011
West Alexandria prosecution services released late on Sunday Major Adham al-Rouby, a former agent of the disbanded State Security Investigation Services (SSIS), after interrogations over his alleged involvement in torturing a young Salafi preacher to death.
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 29, 2011
Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb said on Thursday that he rejects all attempts at spreading Shiism in Egypt and the Islamic countries, as well as Shia "insults" against Prophet Mohamed’s companions and Sunni figures.
The statement was made during his meeting with a delegation representing the...