Date of source: Sunday, December 27, 1998
The board of the EOHR reversed on December 18 its earlier decision to freeze the activities of the organization The board also promised to continue to battle for legal status, despite efforts by the state to derail the process.
Date of source: Thursday, December 24, 1998
The United Nations celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10. In Egypt the media uniformly ignored the Paris celebrations.
Date of source: Monday, December 28, 1998
In the last issue of the debate aired by the Qatari Al-Jezira channel between Maurice Sadek, President of the Center for Human rights and National Unity, and Mustafa Bakri, editor-in-chief of Al-Osboa newspaper, Sadek had said that the Egyptian government is a racist government and should be...
Date of source: Thursday, December 17, 1998
An announcement of a lecture of Pope Shenouda on church music in Egypt at the American University of Cairo which was not held.
Date of source: Thursday, December 17, 1998
The arrest two weeks ago and subsequent release of Hafez Abu Se’ada, secretary general of the EOHR and the interrogation of Mustafa Zeidan, EOHR-lawyer, continue to focus international attention on the status of human rights groups in this country.
Date of source: Monday, December 21, 1998
A TV station from Qatar organized a live debate on the American Freedom of Religious Persecution Law and el-Koshh between Mustafa Bakri, editor in chief of Al-Osboa newspaper, and Maurice Sadek, president of the Center for Human Rights and National Unity.
Sadek, who defended the recently accepted...
Date of source: Saturday, December 19, 1998
The opinions of the late Sheikh Mitwali Al-Sha’arawi and Father Matta Al-Meskin summarize to a large extent the features of the personality of Pope Shenouda.
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: 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
Maurice Sadek, director of the Center for National Unity, does not refrain from his hobby of writing false reports on persecution.