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Egyptian Copt cleared of fake Facebook ‘blasphemy’

Egyptian Copt cleared of fake Facebook 'blasphemy'By World Watch MonitorApril 4, 2016An Egyptian Copt, Bishoy Kameel Garas, has been declared ‘innocent’ after he spent...

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Blasphemy cases rise in Egypt and Christians bear the brunt

Blasphemy cases rise in Egypt and Christians bear the bruntBy Maggie Michael - APMarch 25, 2016In this Thursday, March 3, 2016 photo, Fadya Shehata...

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UN urges Egypt to halt repression of NGOs

UN urges Egypt to halt repression of NGOsBy BBC NeWSMarch 23, 2016The UN has expressed grave concern over the closure of hundreds of civil society...

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‘Egypt has a real chance to be put back on track,’ El-Sennawy tells Ahram Online

'Egypt has a real chance to be put back on track,' El-Sennawy tells Ahram OnlineBy Dina Ezzat - Ahram OnlineMarch 23, 2016“This may be...

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New NGO law to be submitted to ‎Egyptian parliament: Minister

New NGO law to be submitted to ‎Egyptian parliament: MinisterBy Gamal Essam El-Din - Ahram OnlineMarch 23, 2016Egypt's Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Magdi El-‎Agati...

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Background on Case No.173 – the “foreign funding case”

Background on Case No.173 - the "foreign funding case" - Imminent Risk of Prosecution and ClosureThe Egyptian judiciary has coordinated accusations and cases against the...

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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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