The Egyptian Initiative for Personal

Rights organized, last Thursday, a press conference in which it announced the release of a report

titled “Freedom of belief and Shiites’ issues in Egypt.” This report describes the crackdowns on

Shiites in Egypt from December 2003 till March 2004.The report also presents a section for the

abuses faced by those arrested in crackdowns on Shiites in 1988, 1989, 1996 and 2002.