Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2006
The
Dialogue Committee at the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs has
announced a draft bill on respect of religions
and prevention of contempt for the beliefs of ‘the other’.
The draft will be presented at the next session of the
UN General Assembly.
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
Forty-one -year-old Umm Usāma recounts how state security forced raided her house on
April 12, and arrested her husband, Salāh ‘Abd al-Qawī, and her three sons, Usāma,
Ahmad and ‘Abd al-Rahmān, forcing them to “confess to crimes that they did not commit.”
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
Fourteen-year-old ‘Abd al-
Rahmān Salāh ‘Abd al-
Qawī recounts how he was allegedly tortured by state security
officers to falsely confess to involvement
in the Azhar terrorist attacks.
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2006
The author discusses citizen’s rights in his country, and the possibility of fulfilling these rights, asserting the need to make constitutional and political reform in Egypt and other
countries in the region.
Date of source: Thursday, April 6, 2006
In the
aftermath of the publication of the “offensive”
cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, a slump in European tourism in
Egypt has been reported,
Sa‘īd Jamāl al-Dīn writes.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Abu al-
‘Alā’ Mādī, founder of the Wasat Party, harshly
criticizes the Egyptian
government for not licensing his party, arguing that the government is not after
political reform.
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
The government’s National Council for Human Rights has issued its second annual report, which criticized the emergency law, in effect for 25 years, calling on the government to stop all such exceptional laws.
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
Nabīl
Najīb Salāma sheds lights on marriage and divorce in
Christianity.
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
Dr. Mamdouh Halīm discusses the constant conflict between the
Millī [Community] Council and the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
Father ‘Abd al-Masīh Abou al-Khayr refutes claims that the Gospel of
Judas
Iscariot was written by one of the apostles of Jesus Christ.