Date of source: Tuesday, December 8, 1998
While the whole world is celebrating the golden jubilee for the World Declaration of Human Rights, we here in Egypt celebrate it in a different way, which assures our backwardness in the field of human rights.
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
The leader of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) has been arrested for "accepting funds from a foreign country with the intention of carrying out acts detrimental to Egypt."
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
The secretary-general [of the EOHR] was called in for investigations and was detained by the prosecutor. He said that the cheque had no relation to the report on el-Koshh.
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
Hafez Abu Se’da is only a scapegoat, who has been put in this position by many, a position that cannot be accepted by anyone. Not only because he is under custody but also because he is being accused of treason.
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
Even if the strange and weird events regarding the incident of Al-Koshh and the response in the Egyptian media had not happened, it would have been invented by the Telegraph so as to find an excuse to talk about the illusion of the persecution of Copt’s in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
The Coptic Orthodox Society in Helwan organized a symposium under the title "The Koshh events between lies and truth". The society refuted the campaign waged by the British newspaper [the Sunday Telegraph], stressed National Unity and rejected the interference of The House of Lords and the...
Date of source: Friday, December 4, 1998
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights stated it would freeze its activities.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 2, 1998
It is not a coincidence that every now and then the issue of the funding of human rights organizations pops up, and I believe that the issue will continue to be raised as long as the activists are not abiding in this field by the new morality.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 2, 1998
Counselor Hisham Siraya, the general lawyer for the First Prosecution Office of the State Security has ordered the arrest of Hafez Abu Se’da, secretary general of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), for a period of 15 days for investigation.
Date of source: Monday, November 30, 1998
The board of trustees of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) has reconsidered the issue of foreign finance and has returned the check presented by the British embassy.