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American Historian: Trump Does Not Look at the Muslim Brotherhood Like Obama; I Expect It Will Be Banned

By Abdelaziz Al-Sharafy - Al-WatanAmerican historian and analyst Daniel Pipes said he expects that the bill put forward by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz to classify...

- February 13, 2017 0

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UK publishes its Human Rights Priority Country report for Egypt

By UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office -Restrictions on human rights in Egypt continued in the second half of 2016, including growing restrictions on civil society....

- February 10, 2017 0

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Egypt Shutters Victims Rehabilitation NGO

By POMEDEgyptian authorities shut down the El-Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture today after police sealed off its entrance...

- February 9, 2017 0

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White House Weighs Terrorist Designation for Muslim Brotherhood

By Peter Baker - The New York TimesWASHINGTON — President Trump’s advisers are debating an order intended to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a...

- February 8, 2017 0

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Egypt: judge sentences Coptic boy to 15 years; lawyer says ruling motivated ‘by faith, not law’

By World Watch Monitor -A 15-year-old Coptic Christian boy has been sentenced to 15 years in an Egyptian prison for sexual assault, even though...

- February 8, 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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Egypt’s PM forms committee to legalise status of churches

By Ahram OnlineEgypt's Prime Minister Sherif Ismail issued on Monday a decision to form a committee to legalise the status of churches that were...

- January 31, 2017 0

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Case of Copt tortured to death: witnesses threatened

By Nader Shukry - WataniThe lawyers who represent the family of the Copt Magdy Makeen, 54, who died of torture in the police station...

- January 31, 2017 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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