Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 1999
The United States produced the first annual report about religious freedom in the world. The report claimed that there is some discrimination in society and government against the Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
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Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Ever since the case first broke the news last fall, the response from the government has been uniform: No one was tortured at Al Koshh. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when, after a brief investigation that didn’t even involve the questioning of witnesses, prosecutors declined to bring charges...
Date of source: Friday, August 13, 1999
The prosecutor-general of Sohag decided to reopen the investigations in the incidents of Al-Koshh. 200 Copts presented their complaints to the new prosecutor in which they were asking him to reopen the investigations in the cases of torture by policemen after two Christian men had been killed in...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 1999
The principal question in this disaster is who is responsible for this disaster?
Date of source: Friday, July 9, 1999
The armed violence that was used against the Egyptian Copts aims at a lot of things. For instance planting doubt in the ability of the government to protect its own citizens and it is used against the whole country (Muslims and Christians) not just against a certain group only.
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 1999
While President Mubarak was receiving his honorary doctorate in law from Washington University, a group of people were standing in front of the doors of the university distributing leaflets which included an approximate drawing for a church, which looks much like the American ones, and there is a...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 1999
At a press conference that was held by the New York Council of Churches, Drs. Cornelis Hulsman presented a report in which he mentioned that a delegation from the New York Council of Churches visited Egypt last March. The members of this delegation discovered that there is no religious persecution...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 30, 1999
The report that was presented by Dr. Cornelis Hulsman confirmed the fact that there is no persecution of the Copts in Egypt. Dr. Cornelis said that a delegation from the council had visited Egypt last March and saw that there were no signs of persecution or discrimination.
Date of source: Saturday, June 26, 1999
Two representatives of an organization called "Freedom House" in the USA claimed that they came to Egypt to make a report about the persecution of Copts in Egypt. A representative of this organization visited Egypt and met Boutros Ghali, the minister of the Egyptian economy, in order to give him...