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16. EOHR braces itself for legal battle with the state
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.
8. Al-Kushh, a false witness and an attempt to incite sectarianism
Date of source: Monday, December 21, 1998
Egypt witnessed a flamed scene of sectarianism in the last months of 1998. The reason for that were violations of the police during their investigations of a normal murder crime. The unethical method of investigations transferred the issue into a vicious campaign to defame Egypt and claims that...
23. Let us close the human rights organizations!
Date of source: Tuesday, December 8, 1998
While the whole world is celebrating the golden jubilee for the World Declaration of Human Rights, we here in Egypt celebrate it in a different way, which assures our backwardness in the field of human rights.
22. Releasing the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights’ Secretary General. An attempt to quickly catch a runaway lawyer - also others papers of that day
Date of source: Tuesday, December 8, 1998
Hafez Abu Se’da, general secretary of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights was released on bail of 500 Egyptian pounds. The detention of Mustafa Zeidan was ordered.
14. The British do not come here for our interests!
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
Even if the strange and weird events regarding the incident of Al-Koshh and the response in the Egyptian media had not happened, it would have been invented by the Telegraph so as to find an excuse to talk about the illusion of the persecution of Copt’s in Egypt.
11. The incident of Al-Koshh was a security error that extremists attempted to blow up
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
The Coptic Orthodox Society in Helwan organized a symposium under the title "The Koshh events between lies and truth". The society refuted the campaign waged by the British newspaper [the Sunday Telegraph], stressed National Unity and rejected the interference of The House of Lords and the...
7. Cairo Foreign Press Association denounces Coptic press release
Date of source: Monday, November 30, 1998
Drs. Kees Hulsman, a correspondent for Dutch and American publications and the member of the board of the FPA, has been strongly attacked in a press release sent worldwide by Coptic Associations in the USA, Canada, Australia, England, Germany and France.
6. Foreign correspondents in Cairo: No Foreign Journalist has been expelled during Mubarak’s reign
Date of source: Wednesday, December 2, 1998
The Association condemned the false accusations that have been promoted by some Coptic Associations abroad against Drs. Kees Hulsman, who is a correspondent for a number of Dutch and American newspapers in Cairo, and is member of the Association’s Board.
26. The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights and the Koshh events
Date of source: Tuesday, November 17, 1998
Egyptian human rights organizations are used to being attacked by government and its allied journalists once a year at one particular time. That is when the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council holds its meeting to discuss reports prepared by their branches all...
23. Sunday Telegraph retreated and published an Egyptian Coptic citizen’s statement. An American paper criticized Dr. Boutrous Ghali and questioned the position he had at the UN
Date of source: Monday, November 16, 1998
Canceling its first rejection, the Sunday Telegraph agreed to publish the statement of the Egyptian Coptic education-investor Reda Edward which refuted the paper’s allegations of Copts’ persecution in Egypt. The paper accepted the statement in a form of paid advertisement.

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