A number of Coptic activists have submitted an official request to Colonel General ‘Abd al-Fatāh Sīsī, Commander-In-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Minister of Defense and Military Production and the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, asking the intervention of the army to protect the Copts from attacks against them. The request was made at a conference organized by a group called "Copts under siege" (Author not mentioned, al-Watan, April 12, p. 1).  Read original text in Arabic.