Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Higher Administrative Court handed down a ruling Tuesday that Christians converting to Islam may switch back to Christianity. [Husām al-Jiddāwī, al-Ahrām, Feb. 21, p. 14] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Higher Administrative Court handed down a ruling Tuesday that Christians converting to Islam may switch back to Christianity. [Husām al-Jiddāwī, al-Ahrām, Feb. 21, p. 14] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Al-Wafd says it is the only paper that published the birth certificate of Rānyā Khalīl Ibrāhīm, the Mīt Bashār village girl who is said to have converted to Islam and sparked sectarian troubles last week. [Yāsir Matarī, al-Wafd, Feb. 21, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Naja' Hammādī Family House in Qena started its initial activities Tuesday as Muslim and Christian clerics in charge of the initiative held a symposium in the city and met with students and teachers to raise their awareness on national unity and urge them to always seek tolerance. [Amīr al-...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Qena Criminal Court acquitted Qurashī Abū al-Hajjāj and Hindāwī Muhammad Sayyīd Hassan on the eve of the new year in 2012 (on the eve of January 7, 2010) that left six people dead.
[Reviewer's Note: The journalist committed a mistake in dates as he wrote that the massacre has taken place on the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Forensics finalized Monday (Feb. 20) examining the injuries of nine army soldiers to detect the nature of their wounds during the Maspero incidents that left 23 people dead and dozens others injured.
Counselor 'Ādil al-Ghūwayt, the judge mandated by the justice ministry to investigate the case, had...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Forensics finalized Monday (Feb. 20) examining the injuries of nine army soldiers to detect the nature of their wounds during the Maspero incidents that left 23 people dead and dozens others injured.
Counselor 'Ādil al-Ghūwayt, the judge mandated by the justice ministry to investigate the case, had...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Fādī Yūsuf, the general coordinator of the Egypt Copts Coalition, founded a few days ago, said that his group is in solidarity with activist Michael Meunier, inviting all Egyptians to join them in their call to bring the actual culprits to justice. [Shādyah Yūsuf, al-Ahrām, Feb. 21, p. 14] Read...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
"In my reply to the accusations, I will say that the incitation was made by the Egyptian TV that urged the people to go out to protect the army and assault Copts," Meunier said in statements. [Ahmad al-Sa'dāwī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Feb. 21, p. 7] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Meunier, who is being prosecuted over nine charges, including the murder of a soldier and incitation to raid a government building, said that the case is politically-motivated, adding he has not participated in the Coptic march in Maspero on that day because he fractured his leg. ['Imād Khalīl, al-...