Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 17, 2012
The Syndicate of Journalists council, in a meeting under Chairman Mamdūh al-Walī, denounced the recent attack on the freedom of the press by some deputies in the People’s Assembly and Shūrá Council, adding this attack only indicates there are some plans to undermine public freedoms, particularly...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 17, 2012
Chief editors and board chairmen of state-owned newspapers met to review the outcome of the meeting with the speaker of the shūrá council, which was held on Tuesday (May 15), and focused statements attributed to some chairpersons of shūrá committees that implied insults against the press...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 17, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb said the top Sunnī establishment is always expressive of the people’s feelings and the nation’s conscience, adding the Azhar will support any president the people will choose freely and transparently.
“The Azhar is supporting any articles in the...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 17, 2012
“The MB will abide by the new law as soon as it is adopted,” said Mukhtār al-‘Ashrī, the chairman of the legal committee of the FJP, in response to earlier calls by the minister of insurances and social affairs, Najwá Khalīl, on the group to legalize its position and stop practicing politics after...
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 18, 2012
In another development, a military court acquitted three army soldiers who had been charged with involvement in the October 9, 2011 incidents outside the state radio & TV building in the area of Maspero, which left dozens killed or wounded.
The court said that the three soldiers were in legal...
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 18, 2012
A church source in the committee in charge of the papal elections revealed that Bishop Mūsá of Youth accepted to run, adding the bishop will officially present his papers on Saturday (May 19).
Counselor Munsif Sulaymān, a member of the committee, said the initial list of candidates will be...
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 18, 2012
The Holy Synod under acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius announced that the deadline for receiving applications for running in the elections to succeed Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III, who passed away in March, will expire on Saturday (May 19). [Ashraf Sādiq, al-Ahrām, May 18, p. 7] Read text in...
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 18, 2012
Meanwhile, Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah, the chairman of the registration committee in the papal elections, said nearly 700 voters archons from the different parishes were registered, adding the issue of registering expatriate Copts has not been settled yet. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm,...
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 18, 2012
“We will mobilize the whole Egyptian people to protest if Article 2 of the Constitution failed to spell out the Islamic sharī’ah as the main source of legislation,” said Shaykh Yāsir Burhāmī, the vice chairman of the board of the al-Da’wah al-Salafīyah (Salafī Call) group. [Muhammad Abū al-‘Aynayn...
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 18, 2012
“We will mobilize the whole Egyptian people to protest if Article 2 of the Constitution failed to spell out the Islamic sharī’ah as the main source of legislation,” said Shaykh Yāsir Burhāmī, the vice chairman of the board of the al-Da’wah al-Salafīyah (Salafī Call) group. [Muhammad Abū al-‘Aynayn...