Dr Adel Fawzi and Mr Peter Ezzat State Security Attorney hearing News update
In a telephone call to Dr Adel Fawzi and Mr Peter Ezzat Lawyer Ramses El-Nagar, first day State Security attorney hearing at the State Security building in Cairo today ended with the lawyers demonstrating that:
There was no manger, Christ is not the Messiah, and the crucifixion never happened. A forthcoming ITV documentary will portray Jesus as Muslims see him.
CAIRO -- Egyptian police are holding a woman who conducted a near-fatal circumcision on a young girl, a widely-condemned practice the authorities are trying to stamp out, the press reported Friday.
Updates Regarding Dr. Adel Fawzi and Mr. Peter Ezzat
In a telephone conversation from United Copts GB to Dr Adel Fawzi and Mr. Peter Ezzat,through their solicitors, while incarcerated at the State Security building Al-Qahira Al-Gadidah (New Cairo), both Dr. Adel Fawzi and Mr. Peter Ezzat are in single cells, 175cm x 175 cm, allowed only one hour break per day after spending the first 36 hours with out food or water.
Both are in good spirit, and looking forward to Tuesday 21/8/07, either a court hearing will take place or get discharged.
A Christian convert from Islam, Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy (24), brought a case against Egypt's interior ministry for rejecting his application to replace Islam with Christianity on his personal identification papers on August 2.
The police decision to complain to Ofcom about a controversial Channel 4 documentary raises "serious questions about media freedom", the Tories said yesterday.
NEW YORK - They preferred bookstores or hookah bars to mosques. They stopped listening to pop music and instead surfed Web sites promoting radical Islam. They threw away their baseball caps and grew beards.
VANCOUVER - A blind man denied service from a Muslim taxi driver for "religious reasons" has been awarded $2,500, the result of a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal discrimination settlement reached on Friday and made public yesterday.
By MICHAL LANDO JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT An Arabic language public school set to open in Brooklyn on September 4 is on its second principal before even opening its doors.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is stepping up counter-terrorism cooperation with countries in South Asia and Africa to thwart al Qaeda attempts to train Britons overseas and send them back home to commit attacks, a senior official said.
Death threats, his family's renunciation of him, and condemnation from most of Egypt have not deterred Christian convert Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy from pursuing his historic case to seek official recognition for his conversion from Islam to Christianity.
2 Egyptian Copt Christians Accused of Evangelism “crime” ,BBC LINK
This is from BBCArabic, I couldn’t find it in English, it would save me time, but it seems BBC English do not like westerners to know what they should know.
CAIRO -- Two Coptic Christian rights activists have been arrested in Egypt for allegedly insulting Prophet Mohammed on a British-based Web site, their lawyer and a judicial source said Thursday.
Group leader helped Christian convert, who has new lawyer for conversion case.
by Peter Lamprecht
ISTANBUL, August 9 (Compass Direct News) – Egyptian police detained the head of a Christian rights group yesterday after he held a high-publicity, online chat session with a controversial Muslim convert to Christianity, the group’s international leader said.
Cairo - An Egyptian man has asked the Egyptian courts to recognise his conversion from Islam to Christianity and instruct the government to change the details on his identity documents, his lawyer said on Monday.
Attorney for former Muslim seeking Christian ID leaves amid threats, national uproar.
by Peter Lamprecht
ISTANBUL, August 8 (Compass Direct News) – An Egyptian convert to Christianity who filed suit for his conversion to be officially recognized is in hiding after his attorney announced he would withdraw from the case yesterday.
Presumably as part of its continuing campaign to remain the most controversial television channel in Britain, Channel 4 last night broadcast an interview with a jihadi sympathiser who explicitly advocates the taking up of arms by British Muslims.
In a telephone conversation from United Copts GB to Dr Adel Fawzi and Mr. Peter Ezzat,through their solicitors, while incarcerated at the State Security building Al-Qahira Al-Gadidah (New Cairo), both Dr. Adel Fawzi and Mr. Peter Ezzat are in single cells, 175cm x 175 cm, allowed only one hour break per day after spending the first 36 hours with out food or water.
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