Tag:NGO

Rights group urges Egypt’s president to end violations

By Associated Press -A leading international rights group urged Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday to prioritise reforms aimed at ending human rights abuses...

- April 11, 2018 0

News

NGOs Retrial in Case 173/2011 of welcomed by rights groups

By Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies - By CIHRS-The undersigned organizations welcome the Cassation Court’s decision today April 5th to order a retrial in...

- April 5, 2018 0

News

MP Accuses NGOs of Connection to Foreign Intelligence

By POMEDOn March 8, Egyptian MP Alaa Abed accused seven prominent NGOs and human rights organizations of receiving funding from foreign intelligence agencies in exchange for publishing "fabricated"...

- March 12, 2018 0

News

Statement By Senators McCAin & Graham on Egyptian Law Imposing Severe Restrictions on NGOs

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released the following statement today on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s enactment...

- May 31, 2017 0

News

Egypt’s Draft NGO Law Criticized as Repressive

By MOPEDMember of Parliament and chairman of the Egyptian Democratic Party Ehab Mansour announced on Wednesday in a press conference that he is...

- November 17, 2016 0

News

Egypt’s Draft NGO Law ‘Reflects Traditional Official Trepidation About NGOS’

Egypt's Draft NGO Law 'Reflects Traditional Official Trepidation About NGOS'By POMEDOctober 4, 2016The United Group, an Egyptian law firm, published on October 5 an...

- October 6, 2016 0

News

Egypt’s Assest Freeze is a Shameless Ploy to Silence Human Rights Activism

Egypt's Assest Freeze is a Shameless Ploy to Silence Human Rights ActivismBy Amnesty InternationalSeptember 17, 2016The Zeinhom Criminal Court’s decision to freeze the personal...

- September 18, 2016 0

News

EU Statement on the decision of an Egyptian Court to freeze the assets of Human rights defenders

EU Statement on the decision of an Egyptian Court to freeze the assets of Human rights defendersBy EU SpokespersonSeptember 17, 2016The decision taken by...

- September 18, 2016 0

12 Page 1 of 2

Advanced Search & Filter

Date Range

RSS Feed from WWMonitor

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 […]

Tag:NGO

WHO ARE THE COPTS?

Follow Us