Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2012
Archpriest Frances Farīd, the deputy head of the Beni Suef patriarchate, denied that the church was involved in directing its congregation to vote for Shafīq as some claim.
“The statement found by the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist groups, which contained instructions to Copts to vote for Shafīq,...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
"The Muslim Brotherhood obtained 20 seats – either lawmakers belonging to the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Irshād (Guidance) Office members or public figures affiliated to the group like Islamic thinker Dr. Muhammad 'Umārah," said Katātnī.
The Supreme Constitutional Court withdrew from the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Counselor Māhir Sāmī, Vice-President of the Supreme Constitutional Court and its official spokesman, told the Middle East News Agency (MENA) that the court's refusal to participate in the constituent assembly was due to failure by political powers to reach consensus on the lineup of this panel.
He...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
"The Muslim Brotherhood obtained 20 seats – either lawmakers belonging to the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Irshād (Guidance) Office members or public figures affiliated to the group like Islamic thinker Dr. Muhammad 'Umārah," said Katātnī.
The Supreme Constitutional Court withdrew from the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 16, 2012
The national security agency has intercepted a number of phone calls between those persons and some loyalists that turned out to have been made from inside Egypt, the sources added.
“The armed forces coordinated with the police to deploy several fixed and mobile patrols with weaponry and tanks on...
Date of source: Friday, June 22, 2012
The Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamā’ah group in Alexandria said Dr. Muhammad Mursī is the president of Egypt and its supreme commander of the armed forces, warning the Higher Presidential Election Commission (HPEC) against approaching “Egypt’s elected president, Mursī, who is a red line”.
“We refuse having...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The defense counsel of the FJP attended the session on Tuesday (June 19) led by former MPs Subhī Sālih, Muhammad Tūsun and Nāsir al-Hāfī and lawyers Ahmad Abū Barakah, ‘Abd al-Mun’im ‘Abd al-Maqsūd and ‘Alī Nāsir.
Wā’il Hamdī, a lawyer for Fakharānī, submitted a CD containing an episode of a TV...
Date of source: Saturday, June 23, 2012
Meanwhile, political powers and parties embarked on forming what they called the “Civil Current” within preparations to participate in the next parliamentary elections in a bid to “confront the fulūl (remnants of the former regime) and the Muslim Brotherhood with a unified list,” according ‘Imād...
Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2012
Security agencies arrested 22 persons carrying Palestinian, Syrian and Jordanian passports, including nine who entered Egypt illegally, in the cities of Rafah, Port Said and al-Ismailia, while the search is on for a number of Palestinians who infiltrated into Egypt.
Security sources revealed that...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
On the other hand, the committee on nominations for the papal chair of Saint Mark met at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah to lay an agenda to study the papers of candidates, now 17.
The committee has to cut the number of candidates to only seven in accordance...