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Statement By Senators McCAin & Graham on Egyptian Law Imposing Severe Restrictions on NGOs

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released the following statement today on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s enactment...

- May 31, 2017 0

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Egypt Parliament Considers Bill to Crack Down on “Insulting Institutions”

By POMEDThe Egyptian Parliament is considering a bill to crackdown on those who insult “state figures and institutions,” including the president and the Parliament.The...

- May 10, 2017 0

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Resetting US Policy Towards Egypt: Combating Terrorism and Enhancing Civil Rights

A Statement by Coptic Solidarity -February 6, 2017 -President Trump now has a golden opportunity to reset US relations with Egypt making human rights...

- February 6, 2017 1

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Arrest of leading Egyptian feminist Azza Soliman sparks anger

By The GuardianHuman rights activists in Egypt have reacted angrily to the arrest of prominent women’s rights advocate Azza Soliman, saying it marked a...

- December 7, 2016 0

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New NGO legislation takes Egypt down a dangerous path

By Amr Hamzawy - The Washington PostLast week, an overwhelming majority of the Egyptian parliament passed repressive legislation regulating nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), with virtually...

- December 7, 2016 0

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Egypt Civil Society Urges Sisi to Reject NGO Law

By POMEDAfter the Egyptian parliament moved forward with an extremely repressive NGO law on November 29, twenty-two NGOs, four political parties, and 19 public...

- December 6, 2016 0

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Egypt’s parliament passes new NGO law

By Mada MasrEgypt’s Parliament hastily approved a new NGO law on Tuesday, just a day after the State Council concluded it has no indications...

- November 29, 2016 0

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The setback of Egypt’s new NGO law

Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Al-AhramIt’s perfectly normal for a law to be drafted and tabled by parliamentarians—the constitution states that bills can be submitted to...

- November 25, 2016 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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