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.
Date of source: Sunday, November 8, 1998
The Egyptian government has launched an international publicity offensive in the wake of disclosures in The Telegraph last month about a brutal police crackdown on Christians in southern Egypt. Actions include paying for full-page newspaper advertisements in cash and a lobbying campaign on the...
Date of source: Sunday, November 8, 1998
After the Sunday Telegraph article about Christian persecution in Egypt, lots of foreign correspondents denied this information. An Egyptian lawyer, Mostafa Ashoub, chose the legal way as a respond to these lies.
Date of source: Sunday, November 8, 1998
We had intended to close the file of Al-Koshh events after publishing what we thought was enough to clarify facts. Daily papers and weekly magazines’ coverage of the issue found a kind of ’media demonstration’ that came late and seemed to be synthetic and not neutral. Thus, it is essential to...
Date of source: Thursday, November 5, 1998
The report of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights was prepared in a suspicious way, giving a one-sided story, ignoring others’ comments and not verifying events.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 3, 1998
An Egyptian lawyer sues the Sunday Telegraph for US $ 17 billion in compensation for what it published on allegations of persecution of Copts.
Date of source: Monday, November 2, 1998
The last Thursday and Friday have witnessed an intensive communications between the responsible governmental officials and Pope Shenouda in order to close the file of the incidents of Al-Koshh country that is located in Dar Al-Salaam headquarters In Sohag. These communications concentrated on the...
Date of source: Monday, November 2, 1998
The ’Persecution Show’ in Al-Kushh is a new series in the many series being played against Egypt by its enemies for what came of events last August 15 in Al-Kushh did not deserve more than a 10-sentence news item in a local newspaper in its accident pages, even if this paper were a ’yellow journal...
Date of source: Sunday, November 1, 1998
Also Sidhom writes about how the story of el-Koshh escalated.
Date of source: Saturday, October 31, 1998
Zaqlama describes how the issue of el-Koshh was blown up into unbelievable proportions.