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21. Human Rights Activists Warn Against Increased Sectarian Violence
Date of source: Sunday, December 19, 2010
During the “Human Rights in Egypt: Between Hopes and Reality” seminar, various activists said that religious freedom is every person’s right and called for the establishment of a set of rules to ensure de facto equality, suggesting that school curriculum be updated to plant religious tolerance in...
35. The delegation of "The Personal Status Initiative" to the civil investigation: the faults of the country resulted in the crime of Naj‘ Hammādī
Date of source: Thursday, January 21, 2010
The Manager of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Status Husām Bahjat criticizes the state's reaction towards the late incidents of Nagj‘ Hammādī. He believes they failed to deal wisely with the incidents either before or after they erupted.    
10. Human Rights and Foreign Coptic Reporting on Izbet Bushra
Date of source: Friday, February 5, 2010
Osama al-Ghazoly is a seasoned journalist who we asked to evaluate the media discourse on Izbet Bushra, paying special attention to coverage given to expatriate Coptic websites. Since some of these websites make reference to human rights reports produced in Egypt, Osama has also involved these...
2. Are you a Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Muslim convert, Christian convert? If you are asked such a question, you are certainly in Egypt
Date of source: Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The author casts light on the issue of removing the religion field from the personal ID card and its effects on the civilian society.
19. Not by law alone
Date of source: Sunday, October 25, 2009
’A unified law for building worship places... necessity and impediments’ was the title of a seminar that was recently organized by the Egyptians Against Religious Discrimination group. Members of Parliament, human rights activists, public and media figures attended the seminar and it was led by the...
18. Human Rights Watch and the Personal Initiative: The minister of interior’s decree stating putting a "-" in front of the religion entry for Baha’is is positive and ends the bias against adherents of "non-recognized" religions
Date of source: Thursday, April 16, 2009
Al-Dustūr reports on the joint statement issued by Human Rights Watch and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights on the decree issued by the Ministry of Interior allowing putting a "-" in the religion entry for Bahā’īs.
1. Editorial
Date of source: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
On March 16 the Supreme Administrative Court passed a ruling allowing Bahā’īs to leave the religion field on their official documents blank. The ruling marks the end of a five year battle on the part of the Bahā’īs but has unfortunately been marred by sectarian events that took place against them a...
53. Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights monitors 23 religious freedom violations in Egypt within 3 months
Date of source: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The author reported on the fourth annual report of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, which monitored 23 violations of religious freedoms in Egypt during April, May and June. The report focused on the areas of violation of court rulings, sectarian tension and violent incidents, security’s...
4. The omission of “the guiding meetings” causes crisis between the church and human rights groups
Date of source: Saturday, February 23, 2008
A church lawyer sued the Ministry of Interior for its decree on canceling the lawful guiding meetings with converts to Islam.
7. The right to be Christian
Date of source: Sunday, February 17, 2008
The article comments on a Supreme Administrative Court ruling to allow 15 Christians who had converted to Islam and later returned to Christianity to reclaim their legal rights as Christians.

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