Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
Fourteen-year-old ‘Abd al-
Rahmān Salāh ‘Abd al-
Qawī recounts how he was allegedly tortured by state security
officers to falsely confess to involvement
in the Azhar terrorist attacks.
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2006
The author discusses citizen’s rights in his country, and the possibility of fulfilling these rights, asserting the need to make constitutional and political reform in Egypt and other
countries in the region.
Date of source: Saturday, September 22, 2001 to Friday, September 28, 2001
When Egypt was fighting terrorism, it was accused of violating human rights. However, when America was hit by terrorism, President Bush decided to fight terrorism everywhere in the world regardless of human rights. The US may now have discovered that they were protecting and nurturing terrorism,...
Date of source: Monday, April 3, 2006
Dr. Jābir ‘Asfour quotes the very beginning of the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which reads: "recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world...”...
Date of source: Sunday, April 2, 2006
The authors criticize the United Nation’s failure to properly reform its discredited Human Rights Commission, and call on the U.S. to divert funding to other human rights organizations if the U.N. continues to allow tyrants and dictators into the council.
Date of source: Monday, April 3, 2006
Disputes over the property of a piece of land, adjacent to the al-Mar‘ashlī Church in Zamālik have arisen following accusations of forgery against Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark.
Date of source: Monday, March 13, 2006
Coptic intellectuals are divided over the step taken by Coptic activists in the West to discuss the Coptic file before the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. Some believe that such step is the only possible action in order to attract the government’s attention to the problems of Copts,...
Date of source: Friday, March 3, 2006
Many human right activists have opposed the Human Rights Committee of the People’s Assembly’s suggestion to alter the human rights organizations in Egypt to make them fall under the authority of the NGO’s Law instead of the Joint-Stock Company’s Law.
Date of source: Sunday, June 1, 2003
The Human Rights Center for Assisting Prisoners organized a human rights conference in Egypt. Muslim and Christian scholars participated in the conference asserted that Islam and Christianity are keen about human rights without religious or racial discrimination.
Date of source: Sunday, September 4, 2005
In a symposium held recently at Watanī’s headquarters, president of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organizations, Judge Dr. Najīb Jabrā’īl, said that there are nearly 27 human rights’ NGOs in Egypt working in the public interest.