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 Transitional Justice Minister Hunaydī reported to the National Egyptian Council for Human Rights that he has begun to implement many recommendations that Egypt had received at a recent human rights conference in Geneva. He mentioned that there were many recommendations to review, including...
The Egyptian court's death sentence for Mahmūd Hassan Ramadān, who had admitted having thrown children from the rooftop during the Alexandria riots in 2013, was the first execution of a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood since its banning. 
The Law No. 344 of 1952, amended by Law No. 173 of 1953, promulgating the Treachery Act is still in force and has not been revoked. Mahmūd ‘Abd al-Hādī ‘Ananī, an attorney at the Appeal Court and Supreme Constitutional Court, explains that Article 1 of the Treachery Act states that it will be...
 Hours before the trial of former President Husnī Mubārak, his two sons and former Interior Minister Habīb al-'Adlī tomorrow, all legal and security arrangements were finally finished for the first trial of its kind to ever take place in Egypt.  
  The Cairo Court of Appeals has said that the trial of former President Husnī Mubārak and former Minister of the Interior Habīb al-‘Ādlī, may be held in Sharm al-Shaykh hospital, depending on the discretion of the Criminal Court. This has raised concern in Sharm el-Sheikh about high security risks...
North Cairo Supreme State Security Court  released 15 out of 25 detainees who had been accused of forming a secret group committing many crimes.
The Coptic Orthodox Church calls on all people to seek good ethics and bring anyone who commits mistakes before justice irrespective of their religion, according to Archpriest Ṣalīb Sawirus, a member of the Church's al-Majlis al-Millī (Community Council). Jamal As'ad, a Coptic activist, said that...
Ahmad Hānī claims that the aim of the terrorist attack on the Two Saints Church in Alexandria was meant to increase tensions between Muslims and Christians.
Many social problems turn to take a sectarian dimension in Egypt. The reason is the absence of a strict application of the law and the reliance on conventional reconciliation sessions that do not treat the motives of the problems.
Two days ago the Coptic community of Egypt witnessed a unique event. On Sunday, February 14, Valentine’s Day, a rally was organized downtown by over two hundred Coptic participants in protest over the Naga Hammadi killings on Christmas Eve and the subsequent handling of the case by the government....

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