Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2012 to Sunday, April 15, 2018
The Maspero Youth Union (MYU) held the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and police "entirely responsible" for any loss of life, property or that Copts besieged inside a church in the village of Mīt Bashār in al-Zaqāzīq, al-Sharqia governorate, or the Muslims trying to protect the church...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 to Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Some parties and a group of civil society organizations issued a statement on the forced displacement of Christian families in which they said that there is religious fanaticism in the society for many reasons, topped by the practices and schemes of the former regime, which still continue under the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 to Sunday, April 1, 2018
The People's Assembly legislative committee approved addressing the Criminal Evidence Investigation Department (CEID) and the Passports Department for information about the integrity of the criminal record of appointed (Coptic) lawmaker Tāriq Makram Shākir and whether he carries another national...
Date of source: Thursday, February 9, 2012 to Sunday, March 11, 2018
Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah, the chairman of the Coptic Orthodox Church Holy Synod’s Information Committee, said the country is already groaning, rejecting calls to start civil disobedience in protest at the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF)’s continuation in power.
“We have to work...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 to Sunday, March 4, 2018
The cabinet is considering drafts to grant an exceptional pension of LE1725 for each of the families of martyrs in the incidents of Maspero, Muhammad Mahmūd street and outside the cabinet office.
The cabinet is also discussing a draft decree by the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed...
Date of source: Friday, February 3, 2012
Dr. Nājih Ibrāhīm, a member of the al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah's shūrá (consultative) council, in an opinion article in Rose al-Yūsuf newspaper, said Michael Meunir (Nabīl), who was recently released from jail, was neither wise nor reasonable during his interview with TV talk show host Dīnā Rāmiz on...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Informed sources said the Advisory Council offered proposals to SCAF on the ways and criteria to pick members of the constituent panel to draft a constitution in a way that will be expressive of all groups in the Egyptian society. [Nashwá al-Hawfī and Sarah Nūr al-Dīn, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Feb. 1, p....
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2012
Subhī Sālih, a member of parliament from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), said there are some attempts to spark a falling out between youths in al-Tahrīr Square and parliament on one hand and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on the other.
“Throwing bottles...
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2012
Egyptian political activist and blogger Michael Nabīl, who spent 302 days before SCAF pardoned him on the first anniversary of the January 25, 2011 revolution, said he spent very long times in solitary confinement.
“Even if I was allowed mingling with other prisoners, they are strictly ordered...
Date of source: Sunday, January 29, 2012
Activist Michael Nabīl, who was pardoned on the first anniversary of the January 25, 2012 Revolution, said that he was not subjected to any torture inside his prison but watched many torture cases inside military jails and al-Marg prison, where he was serving a three-year term for insulting the...