Date of source: Monday, February 12, 2007
A Coptic family that was accused of collaborating with extremist Islamic groups is arrested and allegedly tortured.
Date of source: Sunday, January 28, 2007
The author questions why some incidents of sectarian strife fall into obscurity. He stresses his insistence that certain cases must be resolved, and breaks down the parliamentary by-laws.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Rose al-Yūsuf interviews Nijād al-Bura‘ī, the director of the Cairo-based Group for Democratic Development, about his stance on the role of the National Council for Human Rights [NCHR] in civil society. al- Bura‘ī blames the council for failing to play an intermediary role between the...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Photos of the military-style parade staged by the Muslim Brotherhood at al-Azhar University raised alarm in the Egyptian press that the Muslim Brotherhood was forming a militia.
Date of source: Monday, December 11, 2006
Tāriq al-Zumur has filed an appeal before the court against the ministry of interior because he and his cousin ‘Abbūd remain in detention despite having completed their jail sentences in 2003.
Date of source:
The Emergency State Security Misdemeanor Court decided to suspend the examination of
the cases against Al
-Nabaa and Akher Khabar newspapers until it has made a decision concerning the request from the
defense to
change the members of the jury. The head of the court said that the reasons the...
Date of source:
President Mubarak
received
Pope Shenouda in Ras al-Tin palace. In a two hour meeting the president and the pope discussed issues
concerning Copts and how to maintain national unity. Neither party made a statement after the meeting.
Date of source:
Mamdouh Mahran, chief
editor of the weekly al-Nabaa, claimed that a former Coptic monk had
practiced prostitution inside the
church. Mahran was highly criticized in Egyptian media and was
accused of
damaging national unity. His
article provoked angry protests by Copts in Assiut and in the main...
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2001
The USA criticized the way the Egyptian authorities dealt with the case of the Ibn Khaldoun Center and the sentence the Supreme Court of State Security pronounced upon its head, Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Egyptian official sources denied that such an American criticism might lead to Ibrahim’s...
Date of source:
The general counselor of
the Brotherhood does not believe the
government responded to their success in the recent parliamentary elections through the
severe and
unjustified verdict of the Military Court in the case of professional syndicates. Two Egyptian human rights
organizations requested...