(CIDT's General Director and AWR's Editor-in-Chief, Drs. Cornelis Hulsman, comments: There is no evidence that 100 thousand Christians have migrated. This figure seems to be inflated, see AWR student Jaco Stoop paper. It is even less true that all migrants left out of intimidation. There is no research that could substantiate this. Personal interviews with migrants, one carried out by AWR’s assistant researcher Diana Serodio, show economic motives, not intimidation.)
A high-level security apparatus examined Copts returning from Bethlehem Church (celebrating Easter), fearing that they might have been in touch with foreign organizations for espionage or political purposes.
Copts, who were in Jerusalem, movements were being monitored by Egyptian security, represented by Egyptian Embassy in Tel Aviv (Yāsir ‘Abd al-Latīf, Ayman Ramadān and Mahmūd al-Mamlūk, al-Yawm al-Sābi’, Apr. 15, p. 1). Read original text in Arabic.
