Date of source: Tuesday, November 10, 1998
Nagiub Nassif and Wagih Kheiry Ekladious have both withdrawn their legal case against the General Guide of the Ikhwan Al-Muslimun (Muslim Brothers)
Date of source: Tuesday, November 10, 1998
In response to the western allegations: Egypt has embraced all three religions, the Synagoge and the Church are side by side with the mosque.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 10, 1998
What was published in the Sunday Telegraph and other US newspapers [the Sunday Telegraph is published in the United Kingdom- editor] in terms of paid advertisement comes from a very small minority of Copts living abroad, whose number does not exceed seven and are known by name. They paid more than...
Date of source: Monday, November 9, 1998
The best thing about the incident in Al-Koshh was that it revealed many things, the most important being the ways of the West in penetrating a country and intervening in its domestic affairs.
Date of source: Monday, November 9, 1998
The Sunday Telegraph reacted to the pressure from a number of prominent Coptic businessmen by publishing a statement signed by 2000 Copts rejecting the allegations and lies propagated by the paper about persecution of Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, November 9, 1998
Minister of Interior, Habib Al-Adly, has announced ending cooperation with any person proven to commit violations. The ministry does not cover up any violations, and has transferred four police officers from their posts after the incident of Al-Koshh in Sohag in order to insure the neutrality of...
Date of source: Monday, November 9, 1998
The Human Rights Organization, which made the report on Al-Koshh village, said that the torture of Muslims and Christians was not a case of religious persecution. It was just a case of police abuse towards the Egyptian citizens.
Date of source: Monday, November 9, 1998
We call on all Christians in Egypt to condemn what is being said and written in the foreign media concerning persecution of Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, November 8, 1998
The Sohag issue seemed to be settled. Expatriate Copts stopped sending faxes and the bishop had stopped making trouble. Then on October 25 the Sunday Telegraph came out and blew the story up. Members of the foreign press in Egypt scoffed at many of the statements in an article of Al Ahram.
Date of source: Monday, November 9, 1998
Minister Adly says there was a plan to blow the incident of el-Koshh out of proportion to disturb social peace in the country.