Date of source: Monday, April 17, 2000 to Sunday, April 23, 2000
[in reaction to an article of Al Usboa about The Egyptian Organization For Human Rights] The secretary general of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights defended his decisions and actions after the article, which was published 2 weeks ago in Al-Usboa, about "irregularities inside the...
Date of source: Monday, April 3, 2000
A lot of irregularities are have been taking place in the Egyptian Organization of Human Rights [EOHR] after the election of Hafez Abu-Saeda, who assumed responsibility (for leading the organization) after the fourth General Assembly of the organization in 1998...
Date of source: Monday, March 6, 2000
... The head of the St. Catherine’s monastery filed a complaint against Bishop Makari, the recently-appointed bishop of Sinai, and accused him of trying to deprecate the historical importance of the monastery, which produces most of the tourist traffic in the area. The head of the monastery, Bishop...
Date of source: Monday, March 6, 2000
In its session of yesterday, Sohag’s Criminal Court decided to continue hearing the case of the killing of Samir Oueida Hakim and Karam Tamer, two Christian youths in the village of Al-Kosheh. Shayboub William Arsel is accused of intentionally killing them both. The incident dates back to August 14...
Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2000
Five more comments (all favorable) regarding the received by Watani regarding the Statement of the Hundred are given here.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 16, 2000
Yesterday, The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights [EOHR] expressed its disappointment at the decision issued by the State Security Prosecutor to refer Hafez Abu-Saeda, Secretary General of the organization, to the Supreme State Security Court (emergency) to be tried for breaching article No. 1...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 16, 2000
Sub-title: Local senior officials are powerless... the government-owned media foment tension
The Egyptian Organization for Human rights issued a report about the results the organization’s fact-finding mission reached concerning the latest incidents of Al-Kosheh in [the region of] Sohag. At the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 15, 2000
The full, published text of the EOHR’s Special Report on the Al-Kosheh incident.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 12, 2000
The Egyptian and international reactions on the Al-Koshh incidents followed each other. The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights [EOHR] issued a statement in which it said that one of the principal reasons for the rioting is not confirming the principal of citizenship in the minds of the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 8, 2000
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights confirmed that the incident of Al-Koshh does not represent a social phenomenon, but it is not in itself a normal incident. A report of the EOHR discusses the factors that led to the incident.