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Judicial sources within the Ministry of Justice have revealed that Minister of Justice Ahmad Mikkī will go to the presidential office with an initiative to solve the crisis which has come as a result of clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mursī. 
"Most of the civil laws are not different from those of the sharī'ah," Zind said in a cultural salon symposium at the Judges Club, adding the problem lies within the penal code. Salafī cleric Muhammad Hassān, who attended the symposium, said that the sharī'ah, which is marked by rightfulness,...
The Ministry of Justice referred the fact-finding committee's report on Maspero incidents and al-Marīnāb to the military judiciary. A number of political experts had criticized referring the report to the military judiciary, adding that a civil judiciary would have been able to investigate on the...
*/ 'Abd al-Mu'iz Ibrāhīm, Chairman of the Supreme Committee for Elections, the body supervising the next parliamentary elections, has declared that no religious slogans can be used in any stages of the electoral process. He stressed that any candidate who does so will be exluded.   Read original...
Worshippers in al-Nūr Mosque clashed and divided into two groups; one group want the officially appointed Imām, by the Ministry of Awqaf, to preach, and the other group wants Shaykh Ahmad Turk, salafī, to preach. The matter escalated to violence until one of the army officers interfered to calm...
On April 17, 2011, protests in Qena, demanding the ouster of a newly-appointed Coptic governor, continued for the third day in a row.
*/   The armed forces enforced a blockade around the Church of the Two Martyrs, Saint Mina and Saint George. Army tanks spread around the village of Sūl with a number of policemen stationed at the home of of the village's Shaykh. Sources told al-Misrī al-Yawm that the armed forces did not...
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