Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 18, 2001
Coptic sources in California discovered that about seventy thousand young Coptic Egyptian men claimed that they were persecuted and submitted false reports stamped with fake stamps about their wives being raped to get access to work and obtain American citizenship.
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 23, 2001
The court set August 15, 2001 for examining the lawsuit filed by Al-Midan against Nawal Al-Sa’adawi because of her insistence on defaming the paper and accusing it of misinterpreting an interview it ran with her.
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 13, 2001
Saad Eddin Ibrahim’s lawyer decided to lodge an appeal against his seven-year prison sentence within the appeals procedure’s time limit. Despite Ibrahim’s deteriorating health condition, Salih asked him to stop asking to be released because of it.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 11, 2001
Cyprus decided to stop all the newspapers issued there and distributed in Egypt and which had a license issued before December 31, 2000, because theses papers violated the Cypriot press law.
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 19, 2001
During the demonstrations against al-Nabaa in the cathedral, the police held about 36 boys, of whom three were kept for 35 days. It is remarkable that the president of the US Copts Association started a campaign to free them AFTER they had been released. He also claimed that the arrested youths...
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 14, 2001
A delegation of the Journalists’ Syndicate visited Al-Muharraq monastery. The Abbot of monastery described the visit as gratifying and praised Ibrahim Napa’s efforts in dealing with Al-Nabaa crisis. He also declared his refusal to reconcile with its Editor-in-Chief.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 11, 2001
During the State Security Prosecution’s investigation with the Editor-in Chief of Al-Nabaa, he said he thought he was exposing corruption in a sensitive religious place, which means playing a patriotic role and that when he published anything he took into consideration the basic principles of...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 10, 2001
President Mubarak said that Egyptian Copts and Jews were treated as Egyptian citizens and that everyone was free to worship God in his own way. He added that the government solved the problems of Copts as it solved the problems of any other denomination.
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 12, 2001
Coptic societies have been dedicating all their efforts to an international media campaign claiming they are persecuted despite the support they receive from the Egyptian government, the rejection of the Egyptian public of the article in al-Nabaa and the trial of its editor-in-chief in the court of...
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 12, 2001
The American Evangelical church praised the religious freedom Christians enjoy in Egypt.
The Supreme Council of the Evangelical Church expressed the church’s worries about the harm the US Commission for International Religious Freedom may cause as a result of the investigations it makes in some...