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Date of source: Tuesday, December 21, 1999
Youssef Sidhom, editor-in-chief at Watani newspaper, was one of seven Egyptians chosen by the Freedom House center in Washington DC in the USA to receive a prize awarded to them "for the bold and courageous attitudes of your work in the area of defending the basic human rights for all Egyptians."...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 7, 1999
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights apologized over receiving an award given to its secretary general from "The Freedom House" based in Washington. Hafez Abu-Seda, the secretary general stated that the award was given to him because of the famous Koshh report.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 17, 1999
The presidential decree of October 27 sending 20 arrested members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood to military court has provoked a number of protests in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, November 4, 1999
The government referred 20 suspected members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to military prosecutors on Monday, nearly two weeks after they were arrested in the biggest crackdown on the group in four years. The accused are charged with "disseminating the ideas of the banned group, endangering...
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
Recent arrests of Muslim Brotherhood members appear linked to the government’s decision to allow lawyers’ syndicate election to take place.
Date of source: Thursday, October 21, 1999
In a continuing clampdown on the clandestine Muslim Brotherhood, security forces on Thursday detained 20 alleged members of the group. Sixteen of the Islamist leaders were picked up as they held a meeting in the Maadi office of the Engineering Organizations’ Union. Others were arrested at their...
Date of source: Monday, September 27, 1999
This Freedom from Religious Persecution Act gives America the right to interfere in diplomatic ways to the concerned governments and if a government does not respond, it is the right of the U.S. administration to impose any sanctions that it (the U.S.) sees fit. The author stresses that several...
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Ever since the case first broke the news last fall, the response from the government has been uniform: No one was tortured at Al Koshh. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when, after a brief investigation that didn’t even involve the questioning of witnesses, prosecutors declined to bring charges...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 1999
Recently there has been a campaign against the emigrant Copts. But prominent writers here in Egypt [both Muslim and Christian] have recently been writing to point out that not all the accusations against the emigrant Copts have any evidence to back them up and that Copts do actually experience...
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Wednesday, July 28, 1999
Human rights organizations have long criticized what they report to be the deplorable conditions of Egyptian prisons. Nothing new or particularly surprising there. But when an autonomous semi-governmental body actually condemns living conditions in prisons as inhuman, then all hell breaks loose....
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.