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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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
Minister Adly says there was a plan to blow the incident of el-Koshh out of proportion to disturb social peace in the country.
The British Sunday Telegraph has published another article yesterday by Christina Lamb who claimed two weeks ago that Copts in Egypt are subjected in Sohag to crucifixions and rape by the police.
The Azhar University is currently carrying out a study to reply to the allegations of sectarianism, said Sheikh of theAzhar Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi.
The Sunday Telegraph has continued its suspicious campaigns against Egypt claiming Copts are persecuted. It published another article written by Christian Lamb. She claimed in her first article that more than 1200 Copts were arrested, tortured with electric shock and crucified.
Bishop Bakhoum of Sohag, Maragha and Al-Munsha’a said that the statement of Pope Shenouda III confirmed that what happened in the Al-Koshh events was an ordinary incident, and it has nothing to do with Egypt’s national unity. What foreign papers published were exaggerations that defame Egypt, and...

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