Date of source: Monday, January 23, 2012
During the celebration on the honoring ceremony hosted by the Humanitarian Relief Committee in the Doctors Syndicate families of the Maspero martyrs complained because they were described as being merely “victims”.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
A Coptic organization abroad affirmed that it will not participate in all celebrant aspects marking the January 25 revolution, adding one year after the revolution nothing of its objectives have materialized.
The organization expressed solidarity with the "honorable Egyptian martyrs' families,...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III will extend congratulations to the people of Egypt over the first anniversary of the January 24, 2011 revolution during a sermon he will deliver from the United States via satellite on Wednesday, (January 25).
A source in the papal office told the Middle East...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
In an opinion article by Krikor Augustinus in al-Ahrām, he says that Egyptians have to at least acknowledge that since the first day of the January 25 revolution they failed to reach well-established accordance over the fate and future of Egypt.
Egyptians should not let the blood of martyrs that...
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
Writer Jamāl al-Bannā demanded the abolition of Article 2 of the Egyptian constitution that spells out Islam as the official religion of the state and that the sharī'ah is the main source of legislation, adding "there is absolutely no need for it."
By removing Article 2, citizenship will become a...
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
The ministry of finance on Thursday (January 19) started releasing compensations for the families of martyrs of the incidents and clashes that took place in the areas of Maspero, Muhammad Mahmūd street and the surroundings of the cabinet office and the People's Assembly headquarters during the past...
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
Muhammad al-Dimirdāsh, a legal advisor for the minister of insurances and social affairs, said that the draft law on NGOs was the outcome of the work of a committee that comprised several people working the civil society field.
During a first workshop to discuss the draft, Dimirdāsh said that there...
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2012
Nine rights advocacy organizations considered the re-forwarding of a draft on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by Abū al-Najā, “one of the figures of the former regime,” as more despotic than the current law and lending more control by the National Security Agency over activities of the civil...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
A draft law on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) held that foreign organizations may practice activities while their dissolution must be through coordination with the foreign ministry.
The draft also prohibited offering refuge for children and the elderly except through official license in...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
On the other hand, justice ministry sources informed of the course of investigations into the foreign finance issue revealed that examining judges have received a new report accusing 15 more civil society organizations inside Egypt of receiving funding worth $600,000 from the United States prior to...