Date of source: Friday, December 11, 1998
Police arrested in the past two days a new group of people in Kafr Al-Sheikh and Ismailia and accused them of joining the Muslim Brothers.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 8, 1998
While the whole world is celebrating the golden jubilee for the World Declaration of Human Rights, we here in Egypt celebrate it in a different way, which assures our backwardness in the field of human rights.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 8, 1998
No one can diminish the important role the human rights organizations played. They created directly or indirectly a form of new awareness in the society regarding human rights in light of the diminishing and weakened role of the opposition parties.
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
Egyptian authorities have prevented the lawyers and wife of a human rights leader from visiting him, a rights group said Friday.
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
The leader of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) has been arrested for "accepting funds from a foreign country with the intention of carrying out acts detrimental to Egypt."
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
The secretary-general [of the EOHR] was called in for investigations and was detained by the prosecutor. He said that the cheque had no relation to the report on el-Koshh.
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
The decision taken last week by the Board of Trustees of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) to freeze the organization’s activities, is the last in a long series of weak positions taken by this board.
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights was mistaken in explaining the events of Al-Koshh but it is certain there is no conspiracy behind what happened.
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
Al-Osboa again devoted several pages to human rights organizations in general in Egypt. Since it is not immediately related to the issue of el-Koshh, Muslim-Christian relations or other issues relevant for the RNSAW only some of the headlines in this supplement are given:
Date of source: Saturday, December 5, 1998
Human Rights Watch, a US organization defending human rights, demanded the immediate release of Hafez Abu Se’da, Secretary General of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights.