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Administration should use its leverage to get Egypt to improve its human rights record

By Brian Dooley - The Hill - Last August, the State Department withheld $195 million in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) from Egypt. Rex Tillerson, then Secretary of State, said...

- July 30, 2018 0

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Egypt’s human rights move dismissed as ploy to win back US aid

By WorldWatch MonitorEfforts by the Egyptian government to improve its record on human rights are aimed primarily at persuading the US government to reinstate...

- January 15, 2018 0

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Reaction of the Egyptian Media to the Newly Introduced House Resolution 673 and Coptic Solidarity’s Testimony before TLHRC

By George Gurguis - President, Coptic SolidarityOpinions expressed in this article are exclusively those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions...

- January 11, 2018 0

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Sisi’s Public Relations Campaign Targets American Evangelical Leaders

By Coptic Solidarity -On November 1, a group of American Evangelical leaders made history by becoming the first such delegation to meet with Egyptian...

- November 8, 2017 0

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Egyptian Parliamentary Delegation Visits Washington

By POMEDA delegation of Egyptian parliamentarians, headed by speaker of the house Ali Abdel-Aal, is visiting Washington this week. Tarek Radwan, head of Parliament’s Foreign...

- October 31, 2017 1

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Senate Bill Seeks to Reduce, Condition Egypt Aid

POMEDAfter the Senate Appropriations Committee markup on September 7, the committee released the text of its Fiscal Year 2018 State and Foreign Operations appropriations...

- September 13, 2017 0

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Senate panel slashes military aid to Egypt

By Bryant Harris - Al MonitorThe Senate’s foreign aid spending panel voted today to slash military assistance to Egypt by $300 million amid growing...

- September 8, 2017 0

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Sisi and Trump’s Good Relations Don’t Define US Policy

By Hatem Maher - MENASource - The Atlantic -When President Donald Trump won the US presidential election late last year, Egyptian media coverage praising...

- September 8, 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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