Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2000
Talking about the emigrant Copts is a very difficult subject because the newspapers have dealt with them from one point of view and they classified them with the extremists, and traitors against their country. They had also mentioned that they were agents [for foreign powers] and so on. The truth...
Date of source: Saturday, February 26, 2000 to Friday, March 3, 2000
The CNN American Net broadcast a show because of the visit of Pope John Paul II to Egypt. Throughout the show that was entitled "Question and answer" which was presented by Riz Khan, the relationship between Muslims and Christians in Egypt and the effect of the Pope’s visit on these relationships...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 16, 2000
Yesterday, The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights [EOHR] expressed its disappointment at the decision issued by the State Security Prosecutor to refer Hafez Abu-Saeda, Secretary General of the organization, to the Supreme State Security Court (emergency) to be tried for breaching article No. 1...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000
An interview of Bishop Kyrollos William, Coptic Catholic bishop of Assiut, regarding the visit of Pope John Paul II.
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
This is a statement about the recent events of Al-Kosheh. Hundreds of cultured people in Egypt signed it. These people care about the country’s concerns.
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
Some are inquiring about the probability of the main market in Al-Kosheh regaining its position as the jewel of trade on the Eastern line of Upper Egypt after the specification of the new shops free for the kiosks owners. The government is taking the necessary measures to repair the damage done.
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
What is to come after the disaster of Al-Kosheh?! Every Egyptian is asking this question. Will the government’s procedures [successfully] cure the nation’s body of the virus of sectarianism?
Date of source: Thursday, February 17, 2000
Counselor Maher Abdel-Wahed, the Public Prosecutor, emphasized that no one proved guilty in Al-Kosheh’s incidents would escape trial under any circumstances. He pointed out that investigations over Al-Kosheh’s incidents have not yet ended but they are on the right track. He added that the results...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 16, 2000
Sub-title: Local senior officials are powerless... the government-owned media foment tension
The Egyptian Organization for Human rights issued a report about the results the organization’s fact-finding mission reached concerning the latest incidents of Al-Kosheh in [the region of] Sohag. At the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 15, 2000
The full, published text of the EOHR’s Special Report on the Al-Kosheh incident.