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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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La comunitat copta, fora de joc a Egipte

By Marc Español - Directa - Era jornada de proves al camp de futbol del club egipci Petrojet, establert a la ciutat portuària de Suez....

- August 3, 2018 0

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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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Resist or flee: NGOs respond to Egypt’s crackdown

By Khaled Mansour - Open Global RightsBetween 2014 and early 2018, the Egyptian government cracked down with unprecedented fury on civil society organizations (CSOs). Previous regimes...

- August 3, 2018 0

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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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Global Metric of Muslim Beliefs and Practices Reveals Intolerance to Non-Muslims

By William DiPuccio - Frontpage Magazine - Surveys conducted by Pew Research have revealed a great deal about Muslim beliefs and practices across the globe....

- July 2, 2018 0

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History Lessons from Years Under Islamism

By Majid Rafizadeh - Gatestone Institute My father's generation in Iran lived in an environment in which the Islamist party of the country's clergy...

- February 19, 2018 0

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Rep. Hill’s Op-ed: Doing the right thing for Persecuted Coptic Christians

For Immediate ReleaseJanuary 17, 2018Egypt is one of the United States’ strongest allies in a region filled with chaotic states. They have the largest...

- January 17, 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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