Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 17, 2000
Counselor Maher Abdel-Wahed, the Public Prosecutor, emphasized that no one proved guilty in Al-Kosheh’s incidents would escape trial under any circumstances. He pointed out that investigations over Al-Kosheh’s incidents have not yet ended but they are on the right track. He added that the results...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 15, 2000
The full, published text of the EOHR’s Special Report on the Al-Kosheh incident.
Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 18, 2000
Sub-title: The Prophet did not kill any Muslim who renounced his religion The book of the Islamic intellectual Gamal Al-Banna "Islam and the freedom of thought" which was issued lately, raised many questions concerning the issue of apostasy. This is an interview with Gamal Al-Banna who says: "My...
Date of source: الاثنين, شباط (فبراير) 14, 2000
Counselor Maher Abdel-Wahed, the Attorney General, issued yesterday a decision to refer Hafez Abu-Seada, the Secretary General of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights [the EOHR] to the High Court of State Security for trial. Abu-Seada was accused of receiving a US$ 25,000 check from the...
Date of source: الاثنين, شباط (فبراير) 14, 2000
Al-Usboa has learned that Saad Eddin Ibrahim, head of the Ibn Khaldoun Center, had made a deal with an extreme Zionist organization in England named Al-Maymouniyyoun after Moses Ibn Maymoun [Maimonides]. The deal was about organizing a conference for dialogue between religions, and it is to be...
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 12, 2000 to الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 18, 2000
Whenever terrorist activity calms down and seems as if it had ended, we find it trying to sneak into our lives once more. Terrorists, whenever a star is put out, move around to build another star, to fool simple people with cheap ways.
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 9, 2000
The Criminal Court of Sohag postponed the Al-Kosheh 1998 case in which Shaybob Abdel-Messih is accused of murder. The case was postponed to 5 March [2000] upon the request of Shaybob’s lawyer.
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 5, 2000 to الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 11, 2000
This is an article praising the value of someone like Father Makarios of Abu Qurqas. It highlights his example as an Egyptian patriot, his wisdom in dealing with foreign media representatives and his message to President Clinton.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 29, 2000 to الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 4, 2000
The Catholic Coptic church is distributing the Arabic edition of the book "His Holiness" for the occasion of the visit of the Vatican pope to Egypt. The book is the biography of Pope John Paul II. Bishop Yohanna Qalta wrote the introduction of the book’s Arabic edition.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 27, 2000
The head office of the district attorney in Sohag received yesterday the forensic medical report concerning the matching of the empty bullets seized at the location of the incidents with the seized weapons in Dar Al-Salaam and the inspection of these weapons.