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Egypt: Unprecedented crackdown on freedom of expression under al-Sisi turns Egypt into open-air prison

By Amnesty International -The crackdown on freedom of expression under Egyptian President Abdelfattah al-Sisi has reached alarming new levels unparalleled in Egypt’s recent history,...

- September 21, 2018 0

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Sisi to attend 73rd UN General Assembly session: Diplomats

By Egypt Independent -Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-YoumPresident Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will address the general debate of the 73rd session for the UN General Assembly,...

- September 17, 2018 0

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Coptic Solidarity Asserts Token Coptic Governor Appointments Do Not Comprise Equality

For Immediate Release(Washington, DC) September 11, 2018The appointment of two Coptic governors in Egypt has been lauded as a major improvement for Copts and...

- September 11, 2018 0

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Rights group urges Egypt’s president to end violations

By Associated Press -A leading international rights group urged Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday to prioritise reforms aimed at ending human rights abuses...

- April 11, 2018 0

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UN Human Rights Chief Denounces Egypt’s Media Intimidation

By POMED -On March 7, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein described the Egyptian government's suppression of freedom of expression in recent months as...

- March 7, 2018 0

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Egypt Honors Slain Coptic Christians, But Fails to Protect the Living

By Lela Gilbert - NewsMaxA touching news story surfaced a few days ago, briefly casting a flicker of light across Egypt’s shadowy heartland.The report...

- February 22, 2018 1

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Visiting Egypt, Tillerson Is Silent on Its Wave of Repression

By Declan Walsh - The New York Times CAIRO — Unusually for America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has kept a...

- February 14, 2018 0

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Forget the Terrorists, What about Your Government, Mr. Sisi?

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive to Coptic SolidarityIt is one thing for Egyptian President Sisi not to be able to prevent surprise Islamic terror...

- February 14, 2018 0

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Egypt: Copt and son killed in IS attack September 7, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesPrayers in Deir El-Garnouse Coptic church, near Al-Minya in Upper Egypt, after Islamic State opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts, killing at least 28 people in May 2017. A Christian father and son were killed by suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on 30 August. The two Copts, Salama […]
Egypt: Father and son stabbed in latest attack on Copts August 12, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesCopts in Egypt have been targeted in a string of attacks this year. An elderly Coptic Christian and his son who run an off-license shop in Giza, central Egypt, were hospitalized after they were severely injured in an attack. Joseph Israel, 70, was sitting outside his shop in the Omrania district in […]
Egypt: Copt stabbed seven times by neighbour who’d lured in his son March 24, 2022
An Egyptian Christian was stabbed multiple times when he tried to rescue his son who was held against his will by a Muslim neighbour in Alexandria. On the night of 15 February, Magdy Fathy Shehata Awad Allah, deacon at the Coptic Orthodox Church in the northeast of Alexandria and a human rights activist, was rushed […]
Egypt: Coptic Christian imprisoned for 5 years for ‘blasphemy’ February 9, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesA police man enters a prison on the outskirts of Egypt’s capital Cairo. A Coptic Christian has been sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, or EIPR, which represented him during his trial. On 29 January the Cairo Economic Court found Marco Gerges […]

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