Diplomatic officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have said that they are still waiting on the Libyan authorities to send the medical report of the deceased Egyptian citizen ‘Izzat Hakīm ‘Atallah who was detained in Libya on charges of proselytisation. The Egyptian ambassador and the wife of the deceased have been in Tripoli since the embassy announced Hakīm’s death. The wife has asked that no autopsy be performed unless she is present.

Libyan authorities are currently detaining five Coptic Christians on charges of proselytisation. The Human Rights Council discussed the crisis in the Shura Council and listened to number of Egyptians who had been detained and tortured in unknown places on Libyan soil. A Committee of Inquiry will be formed to put an end to this.

In another development, the Prosecution of Misrata in Libya decided to imprison 14 Egyptian fishermen for 15 days pending investigation on charges of breaching Libyan territorial waters.

Furthermore, in an industrial zone in the city of Nazareth, Israel, unknown assailants killed an Egyptian man in his fifties (Jum'ah Hamdallah, Muhammad al-‘Arabī, Husām Sadaqah and Majdī Abū al-‘Aynīn, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Mar. 12, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic.