Egypt security court to try suspects in Copt killings
FP/File – Three Muslims accused of gunning down six Egyptian Christians on the Coptic Christmas Eve will stand …
by Samer al-Atrush Samer Al-atrush – Sat Jan 16, 11:53 am ET
CAIRO (AFP) – Three Muslims accused of gunning down six Egyptian Christians on the Coptic Christmas Eve will stand trial before an emergency security court, the state prosecutor said on Saturday.
Egypt security court to try suspects in Copt killings
By Samer al-Atrush (AFP)
CAIRO — Three Muslims accused of gunning down six Egyptian Christians on the Coptic Christmas Eve will stand trial before an emergency security court, the state prosecutor said on Saturday.
Abdel Magid Mahmud said in a statement that the three men were charged with premeditated murder aimed at harming national interests.
(No. 4 – January 7, 2010 – 6 p.m. EST) The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, issued the following statement condemning the attack earlier today on Coptic Christians leaving a midnight Mass celebrating Christmas in Nag Hammadi, Egypt:
Detaining children in Britain: No place for the innocent
What kind of country drags vulnerable children from their beds at daybreak, puts them behind bars and fills them with terror? Paul Vallely meets a family who have endured this horror – in Britain. And they're not alone
Corridor of power: Europe's largest detention centre for immigrants, Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, where the Mansours were taken.
The thundering knock came early in the morning. It was 6.30am. Without waiting for an answer the security chain across the door was smashed from its fittings. Feet thundered up the staircase. The five children, all under the age of 10, were alarmed to be woken from their sleep by the dozen burly strangers who burst into their bedrooms, switched on the lights and shouted at them to get up
Seven Coptic Christians, including two priests, were sentenced to prison for allegedly being involved in a brawl in connection with a dispute over the purchase of a property by the Coptic Orthodox Bishopric of Delga and Deir Mawas, 270 KM from Cairo. The Misdemeanor Court in Mallawi upheld a verdict passed by the First Instance Court in April, 2007.
U.S. Coptic Christians to Rally Against Persecution in Egypt
Coptic Christians are planning to hold rallies in at least four U.S. cities Monday to express their "resentment and rejection" of the persecution that fellow believers are facing in Egypt.
The rallies, organized by members of the The Free Copts, will be held in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington at a time when Christians in Egypt are reportedly facing killings, destruction and looting of their property, deportation from their homes and the forced Islamization of their minor daughters.
A senior leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has acknowledged that government repression has widened the rifts within the organisation as conservative voices fearful for its survival battle with reformists over the merits of political participation.
CAIRO: As Egypt’s Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa lashed out at Switzerland voters’ decision to ban minaret construction in the European country on Monday, Christians in the Arab country have voiced their concern of what they are calling the “hypocrisy” of Egyptian society. They question whether Egypt, which has been forceful in its refusal to allow the construction of churches in recent years, is in a position to criticize the Swiss move.
Coptic leader: Int’l conference on violence against Copts in Egypt a must for rights groups
Bikya Masr
CAIRO: Prominent Coptic Lawyer Mamdouh Ramzy, called on all media, journalists, Egyptian and international human rights activists, to attend the first International Conference to Stop the Violence Against Copts,” which will be held in Cairo, on December 5. His statement comes as Christians in Egypt continue to complain of widespread injustice and prejudice against the minority group.
Egypt mufti says Swiss minaret ban insults Muslims,
"while building churches is restricted or banned in Muslim countries including Egypt".
UCGP to Mr Gomaa, stop being double standard, the world now knows.
CAIRO — Egypt's Mufti Ali Gomaa denounced a vote to ban new minarets in Switzerland on Sunday as an "insult" to Muslims across the world, while calling on Muslims not to be provoked by the move.
UKIP to target Islamic fundamentalism with leadership election
David Charter in Brussels
The UK Independence Party is set to head in a fresh direction, fighting radical Islam, with the election today of a replacement for Nigel Farage as its national leader.
The two favourites to take over from Mr Farage are committed to adding the battle against Islamic fundamentalism to the party’s main goal of withdrawing Britain from the European Union.
A Court Decision to Confiscate the First Egyptian Graphic Novel and Imposing a Fine on its Author and Publisher
Cairo, 21/11/09
Three Egyptian Human Rights Organizations stated that “the Court ruling of imposing a fine on Metro’s author and publisher and confiscating the novel is a step backwards to the freedom of expression, and this decision will be appealed to assert our rights.”
I sincerely appreciate you joining us at Fort Hood, Texas, last week for the memorial ceremony honoring the victims of the horrific November 5, attack. Thank you for your participation and your moving, heartfelt words. In the wake of this massacre, my prayers remain with the fallen, the injured, and their families, as I know yours do.
More than 100 groups sound alarm over UN’s proposals on ‘defamation of religion’
More than 100 religious and non-religious organisations, including several Muslim, have signed a petition against the proposed United Nations resolutions on the ‘defamation of religions,’ which they state will do more harm than good for religious freedom.
Two Christians have been sentenced to death in Egypt for killing a Muslim man who married one of their relatives.
Rami and Raafat Khella, the brother and uncle of Mariam Atef Khella, broke into her home in Cairo in 2008 and opened fire on her husband, Ahmed Sallah.
Authorities deny Christian’s application for release.
By Will Morris
ISTANBUL, November 9 (Compass Direct News) – A Coptic Christian blogger in Egypt held in prison for more than a year without charge said today he will go on a hunger strike unless authorities grant his next application for release.
