Date of source: Monday, November 9, 1998
The Sunday Telegraph reacted to the pressure from a number of prominent Coptic businessmen by publishing a statement signed by 2000 Copts rejecting the allegations and lies propagated by the paper about persecution of Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 25, 1998
Destour published a text of extremists calling for the death of three Coptic businessmen which led to the subsequent closure of the newspaper and a discussion in the Egyptian press on the (limits of the) freedom of the press. In this week’s translation only the text of the statement of the...