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Egypt imprisoned me for defending human rights. But I haven’t lost hope.

By Aya Hijazi - The Washington Post -Aya Hijazi is an Egyptian American social activist. She was imprisoned in Egypt and acquitted after nearly...

- August 23, 2017 0

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Legal Review of Egyptian NGO Law

By Ms. Elly Page, J.D.Legal Advisor - Middle East/North Africa, The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law -President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi recently approved a new,...

- June 30, 2017 0

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Egypt on the Hill: Criticism, Praise, and Policy

By Christian Bischoff - POMEDThe issue of U.S. policy toward Egypt has come up in four congressional hearings held in the past two weeks....

- June 28, 2017 0

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US Senators Send President Trump Letter Regarding Egypt’s NGO Law

On June 19, 2017, ten U.S. Senators sent a letter to President Trump regarding Egypt's new NGO law that imposes draconian measures on civil...

- June 23, 2017 0

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Egypt is in dire shape. Yet how I wish I could go back.

By Nancy Okail - The Washington Post -Today is the anniversary of the day an Egyptian court sentenced me to five years in prison....

- June 5, 2017 0

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Fate of Egypt’s NGO Law Remains in Question

By Pomed -On November 29, Egypt’s parliament approved a restrictive new law to govern the country's NGO community, which decried the law as an...

- January 11, 2017 0

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Arrest of leading Egyptian feminist Azza Soliman sparks anger

By The GuardianHuman rights activists in Egypt have reacted angrily to the arrest of prominent women’s rights advocate Azza Soliman, saying it marked a...

- December 7, 2016 0

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New NGO legislation takes Egypt down a dangerous path

By Amr Hamzawy - The Washington PostLast week, an overwhelming majority of the Egyptian parliament passed repressive legislation regulating nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), with virtually...

- December 7, 2016 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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