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Anonymous sources stated to al-Watan that security forces arrested a new cell that is accused of espionage for a foreign country.
Prosecutor General Hishām Barakāt decided to start the procedures to appeal the Minya Criminal Court ruling issued yesterday in the violence in al- ‘AdawahCity, Minya. 
On the contrary, young Muslims and Christians have organized a march in this area and called for Muslims and Copts being “one hand”. An investigation of the clashes in Khusūs has already started (al-Walīd Ismā’īl and Hasan Sālih, al-Watan, Apr. 9, p. 1). Read original text in Arabic.  
The public prosecutor decided to remand under custody the preacher Ahmad ‘Abdullah, more commonly known as Abū Islām, for four days pending investigation in the case of religious defamation. According to Councilor Kamāl Mukhtār, there are two accusations against Abū Islām, namely exploitation of...
Although he is a former official in the Ministry of the Interior, General Ahmad Diyā’ al-Dīn the governor of Minya has failed to put an end to the sectarian incidents taking place among Copts and Muslims through wisdom. Instead he uses violence and suppression to deal with such crises.
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