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Date of source: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
In light of an accusation against an elderly Coptic man of sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl, al-Waqf Prosecution Office ended assessing damages from the riots held on Friday, January 18 in the village of al-Marāshdah in Qena Governorate. [Mīnā Mihanná, al-Dustūr, Jan. 23, p. 2] Read...
Date of source: Sunday, January 20, 2013
The results of the medical tests on the 6-year-old Muslim child that was allegedly assaulted on January 18 by Nādir ‘Atīyah, a 63-year-old Coptic man, did not indicate that she was sexually assaulted, further, there were no injuries to her body. It is noteworthy that doctor who examined the girl is...
Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2013
Counselor Muhammad Jubrā’īl, President of Qena Prosecution Office, released the seven suspects in the incidents of al-Marāshdah village of Qena. Clashes erupted when an old Copt, Nādir ‘Atīyah, was accused of assaulting a 6-year-old Muslim girl. Muslims of the village damaged a number of Copts’...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 16, 2013
A young Coptic business from Abū Mannāꞌ village, Dishnā Township, west of Qena had been kidnapped and no ransom demanded to date. Despite lack of information on his whereabouts, the family of the kidnapped Marqus Salīm Wahbah has information that the kidnappers belong to one of the many gangs known...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Copts resumed demonstrating outside a police station in Naja' Hammādī, the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena, for the fifth day running as Bishop Kyrillos called for hastily arresting the culprits in the murder of two Copts in Bahjūrah village after they refused to pay an itāwah (protection money...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Naja' Hammādī has witnessed a new kidnapping of two high school students – Jirjis Rizq and Mīnā Nash'at – while they were on their way to the Anbā Badābā Monastery using motorbikes, five kilometers away from the town.
Running out of gas, Rizq and Nash'at phoned their friends get them some gas but...
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