Date of source: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Yet another episode of attempts to bring Egypt in an awkwardly embarrassing situation is fostered by expatriate Copts to press the current regime that is only less than 100 days in power coupled with resounding tones about Copts’ rights to seek asylum to the Netherlands. [‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān, al-...
Date of source: Saturday, September 29, 2012
A decision by the Dutch government on July 11, 2012 was all about facilitating procedures for asylum by Egyptian Christians, not at all about announcing the reception of asylum seekers.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal said any citizen in any place all over the world who seeks asylum to the Netherlands must first be present on Dutch soil and then offer a convincing proof that he/she needs international protection. [Dīnā Darwīsh, al-Akhbār, Oct. 23, p. 7] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Rose al-Yūsuf has published an interview with Midhat Qilādah, president of the Union of Coptic Organisations in Europe, who will hold a meeting with representatives of the European Union to present the conditions for Copts in Egypt under President Muhammad Mursī. In the interview Qilādah claims...
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Expatriate Copt organizations staged protests at Egyptian embassies in a number of European capitals. The Dutch Coptic Association, headed by Bahā’ Ramzī, is at the top of these protests as it organized a protest at the Egyptian Embassy in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Date of source: Saturday, September 20, 2014
Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood complained to the International Criminal Court in Den Haag about human rights violations committed by the Egyptian government.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Egypt's Islamophobia Observatory strongly condemned the Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders’s call for holding a cartoon drawing contest of the Prophet Muḥammad later this year at his party’s parliamentary offices.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 24, 2014
The Giza Criminal Court has issued its verdict in the Marriot Cell case, in which al- Jazīrah staff members have been accused of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. The court ruled to jail six defendants with each 7 years of jail, and 12 others of 10 years of jail (of which 10 in absentia). The UK...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Pope Tawadros II has left Alexandria after a pastoral visit that continued for three days.
Date of source: Monday, November 5, 2018
This text is a translation of the Menno Simons lecture of Prof. Dr. Hans Achterhuis, November 2014. It was later published under the title “Vreedzaam vechten is de weg” (Peaceful fighting is the way) in the magazine 'Streven,' October 2015. It later was translated for and published by Arab-West...