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Egypt military court sentences poet to prison for insulting army

By Reuters - An Egyptian military court sentenced a poet to three years in prison on Tuesday for publishing false news and insulting the military...

- August 3, 2018 0

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Egypt to regulate popular social media users

By BBC News - Egypt's parliament has passed a controversial law that will allow the state to regulate social media users.Under the law, a personal...

- July 18, 2018 0

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Secular blogger arrested in crackdown on free expression in Egypt

By Magdy Samaan - The TelegraphPosting under the username 5orm, meaning “Hole” in Arabic, Mr al-Refaei had acquired more than 75,000 Twitter followers with...

- November 22, 2017 0

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Islamization of Public Space in Egypt

By Dr. William Weessa - Presented at Coptic Solidarity's 8th Annual ConferenceWashington DC June June 16, 2017Many philosophers dealt with Public Space definition, starting...

- June 21, 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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