Joint statement of condemnation and denunciation from the European Union for Coptic organizations for Human Rights and the Canadian Coptic activists federation.
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Michael Meunier Testimony,
Congressional Human Rights Caucus
May 23, 2007
Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Members of Congress, and good afternoon. My name is Michael Meunier, and I am pleased to testify on behalf of the U.S. Copts Association regarding human rights and religious freedom abuses against Egypt’s Coptic and other minorities.
Read more: Michael Meunier Testimony, Congressional Human Rights Caucus
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MRG urges Egypt to give Constitution drafting process more time
30 November 2012
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) expresses serious concern about Thursday's approval of the Draft Constitution by Egypt's Constituent Assembly.
Egypt's President Morsi has stated that he will now organise a popular referendum to ratify the draft. Roughly a third of the Assembly had resigned over the past months, protesting against the dominance of a political voting bloc promoting an Islamic conception of State and Society.
The members who resigned were predominantly from Liberal or Socialist parties, or belonging to the Coptic Christian Church, as well as representatives of ethnic minorities. Religious and ethnic minorities of Egypt were either never included in the Assembly, or have now withdrawn.
Read more: MRG urges Egypt to give Constitution drafting process more time
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Official Press Release of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom
regarding the New Year's Eve at the Church of Saints Mark and Peter in Alexandria
We are deeply saddened and disturbed that once again, days of joy and celebration have been turned into a time of mourning and weeping. Our immediate thoughts and prayers are with all those who were affected by the bombing at the Church of Saints Mark and Peter in Alexandria: those who have lost their lives, their families, those who were injured, members of that parish, Christian communities in general, and Christians throughout the land of Egypt.
This was a time when Christians went as families to pray in the safety of the house of God. Men, women, children and the elderly gathered together in prayer for a happy and peaceful new year. Instead, they became the innocent victims of a most horrific, callus and cowardly act of terror and violence.
Read more: Official Press Release of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom
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التاريخ22 يوليو 2007
حضرة صاحب السمو الأمير محمد بن نواف
سفير المملكة العربية السعودية بالمملكة المتحدة وايرلندا
Read more: Open letter to Prince Mohamad Ibn Nawaf reg Mamdouh Fol (Arabic)
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United Copts of Great Britain
Press ReleaseFor Immediate Release
30th January 2008
The Administrative Court in Cairo refused to rule in a case filed by Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy, a convert to Christianity who is seeking official recognition of his conversion from Islam to Christianity, court officials said yesterday 29th January 2007.
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United Copts of Great Britain
Press Release
For Immediate Release 4th June 2008
URL: www.unitedcopts.org
Contact: info@unitedcopts.
On Wednesday 28th May 2008, 4 Christians, a jeweler and 3 of his workers were killed in cold blood at mid day by masked men in Zytoun district in Cairo. The masked men sped away on motorcycle. The Egyptian police seem not interested. No suspects being arrested so far.
On the 29th of May 2008, two masked men armed with machine guns stole 150,000 Egyptian pounds from a Christian jeweler in Alexandria. 2 suspects were arrested.
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United Copts of Great Britain
Press Release
For Immediate Release
26th September 2008
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Application of Islamic Sharia by court in Egypt forces Islam on Christian woman and separtes a mother from her 13 years old twin sons.
On the 23rd September 2008 The Shobra El-Khema criminal Court, Egypt sentenced Mrs. Bahia Nagy El-Sisi case number 14223 year 1996 to maximum sentence of 3 years imprisonment for “forgery of official document”. The fact is Bahia refused to follow her late father conversion to Islam which took place for a short period during her childhood before his return to Christianity ,and refused to become Muslim in her ID card.
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United Copts of Great Britain
Press Release
For Immediate Release
14th January 2010
URL: www.unitedcopts.org
Contact: info@unitedcopts. Tel +447976710729
One the night of 6th of January 2010, while Christians in Egypt were celebrating the Eastern Christmas Eve, seven worshippers were gunned down right in front of Church by Muslim extremists.
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UK Copts
07,October,2012
Coptic Organisations UK
Immediate Press Release
Two Coptic Children Accused of 'Insulting Islam' Released Pending Investigation
The Coptic Organisations in the UK strongly condemn the irresponsible, threatening and intimidating action of the Egyptian Security forces and the judiciary in arresting and putting on trial 2 children under 10 who have been accused of defaming the Quoran.
The children who have been found to be illiterate have just been released pending a full trial.
This is just another clear example of terrorising Coptic families and their children, state collusion in persecuting Christians and abuse of the role of law and a clear miscarriage of justice on Coptic Christians in direct violation of “The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child” which Egypt is signatory country.
We ask the international community to take action and demand the immediate dismissal of this trial based on the illiteracy of the children and the malice nature of the accusation.
Coptic Organisations UK
UK Copts Assosiation
United Copts of GB
United Action for Egyptian Christians
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بيان صحفى
ينطلق فى القاهرة يومى 30و 31 مارس 2013 مؤتمرا حاشدا عن المواطنة والأقليات تحت حكم الاخوان المسلمين.
وصرح السيد مجدى خليل ،مدير منتدى الشرق الأوسط للحريات الذى ينظم المؤتمر،أن هذا المؤتمر هو الاكبر من نوعه فى تاريخ مصر الحديث فى هذا الموضوع، حيث سيشارك فيه بالحضور أو بتقديم أوراق بحثية حوالى 70 سياسى وأكاديمى وباحث متخصص فى الموضوع، وسوف تصدر هذه الابحاث فى مجلدين بالعربية والانجليزية لأستشراف واقع ومستقبل الأقليات تحت الحكم الإسلامى.
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Press Release
From all progressive Human Rights Egyptian organisations in UK
For Immediate release
6/7/2013
On 03/07/2013 The Egyptian people’s will prevailed. They crossed the sea of hatred, ignorance, discrimination and terrorism to emerge at the shores of freedom. Egypt’s tyrant who admittedly started as an elected president; has demonstrated incomparable incompetence, and was also reckless with the national security of the country. He had to be defeated. The people were victorious in their demand to bring down a new dictator. As the Egyptians recommenced their glorious revolution from the Tahrir square, its noble birth place, the army stepped in to protect the country against Morsi’s anti-democratic thugs.
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Press Release
For Immediate Release
2nd November 2006
The UCGB condemns the arrest and imprisonment of Sheikh Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad, aged 57 at the hands of the Egyptian government. Sheikh Akkad is currently imprisoned in Wadi el-Natroun Prison, Egypt for conversion from Islam to Christianity
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Press release
Alkalema Organization for Human Rights, Egypt, condemns, without any conservation, the brutal criminal attack that targeted,” the lady savior”, in el-Karrada district, Baghdad, Iraq, causing the death of 58 and injured and wounded were more than 75 Christians. This attack was executed by al-Qaeida branch in Iraq that includes Egyptians members. The terrorist sinful group justified the attack as a response to what is so called the detention of the Muslim sisters in the churches and the monasteries of Egypt.