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The author commented on Tareq Al-Bishri’s article, in which he compared the attitude of the State towards the Coptic youth demonstrations against what Al-Nabaa published to the Azhar students’ demonstrations against the publication of the "Banquet for Seaweed." He believes that the State was very...
President Mubarak warned against the consequences of a conflict between Muslims and Copts, and stressed the guarantees that the Egyptian law should offer for freedom of belief. In his meeting with the parliamentary members of the [ruling] National Democratic Party, he discussed the conflict...
The writer believes that human rights, part of which is religious freedom, cannot be achieved by investigating or writing reports. Human rights does not mean distributing humanitarian aid. She wonders why, if the US Commission on International Religious Freedom is concerned with the conditions of...
Judge Mohammed Afifi, who gave the ruling in Al-Kosheh action, said that the sentences relating to the twenty Christian people, who died in the incidents, were ratified. Bishop Wissa said that the church leaders had confidence in the judicial system and that they would not enjoy their rights...
According to the report of the Human Rights Watch on Egypt, the government of President Hosni Mubarak intensified its efforts to exercise control over civil society institutions, harassing and restricting the activities of political parties, human rights and other nongovernmental organizations (...
No formal notification of the indictments or the court date has been sent to any of the defendants in the Case of Saad Eddin Ibrahim. However, persistent inquiry has confirmed that the case is indeed on the court docket for November 18th, 2000. A number of international organizations, including...
Nine organizations issued a joint statement expressing their fear that the trial of human rights defender Saad Eddin Ibrahim and 27 others before a Supreme State Security Court might not meet international fair trial standards. The trial is scheduled to open on 18 November 2000. The statement was...
After Friday prayers, a an old man asked the Sheikh of the Azhar "Why did you not speak to the worshipers about Jihad to liberate Palestine?" The Sheikh replied, "You [plural] go and make Jihad" and pushed away the man violently. Then he said to the Sheikh, "The Aqsa Mosque is burning, it is...
In the symposium that was held in the Cairo Center for Human Rights the attendants agreed to support the freedom of "Ijtihad" and the people who try to do it, because it is not only the case of Abdel Sabour Shahin, it is the case of freedom.
A lot of irregularities are have been taking place in the Egyptian Organization of Human Rights [EOHR] after the election of Hafez Abu-Saeda, who assumed responsibility (for leading the organization) after the fourth General Assembly of the organization in 1998...

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