Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2003
Muslim Brotherhood members who attended a conference held by the Bar Association on the Iraqi issue focused on criticizing the policies of the government. They asked the government to stop enforcing the Emergency law and to make a comprehensive political reform that allows Islamists to practice...
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2003
The Minister of Interior says that the Brotherhood wants to have a political role in spite of everybody’s well-being and that the Al-Qai’da Network announced it has plans for specific goals. He adds that the police thwarted a plan of the Jihad group and the court ruling on this case will be made...
Date of source: Saturday, January 11, 2003 to Friday, January 17, 2003
The rise of the problem of Africans and Asians who illegally live in Egypt pushed the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Labor Power and Immigration Affairs to hold a meeting to solve this problem. A survey of illegal residents in Egypt is now made as a...
Date of source: Saturday, June 18, 2005
The author argues that the government wanted to close the matter of the conversion of Wafā’ Qustantīn, a Coptic Orthodox priest’s wife, to Islam as quickly as possible without considering the possible repercussions which could breach citizens’ right to choose their religious belief according to...
Date of source: Saturday, July 9, 2005 to Friday, July 15, 2005
The parliamentary session has ended without discussing the draft law prohibiting the imprisonment of journalists, though it has been 15 months since the president promised it would see the light.
Date of source: Saturday, July 9, 2005 to Friday, July 15, 2005
The fifth term of the People’s Assembly has come to an end. Its last sessions tackled a sundry of political issues, which signal a real political change the country is to witness during the coming period. Most important is the need for a law that prohibits the imprisonment of journalists
Date of source: Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Eighteen suspects of Egypt’s Jund Allāh [God’s soldiers] have ended their hunger strike after some of their demands were met, according to well-placed informed fundamentalist sources.
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2004
Following what Watani published about the problem of the church of Menaqateen village, Samalout, Minya, that has been waiting for a building permit for 27 years, Hundreds of villagers from Menaqateen and neighboring villages attacked the building of Mar Girgis [St. George] Association affiliated to...
Date of source: Thursday, February 7, 2008
Ranā Mamdūh reports that the Administrative Judicial Court, headed by Counselor Muhammad Ahmad al-Husaynī, deputy president of the State Council, decided to adjourn the pronouncement of its rulings on cases of returnees to Christianity to February 19 and March 18, 2008.
Date of source: Saturday, February 9, 2008 to Friday, February 15, 2008
Hānī Labīb comments on the recitals of the ruling of the Administrative Court in the case of the Muslim convert to Christianity Muhammad Hijāzī who demanded the Egyptian Ministry of Interior mention his new religion in his identity card.