Date of source: Sunday, October 7, 2012
The Maspero Youths Union held a press conference at the al-Sāwī Culture Wheel center to discuss arrangements for commemorating the victims of the Maspero massacre on its first anniversary.
Date of source: Sunday, September 30, 2012
Some 30 Coptic families of martyrs of the October 9, 2011 incidents and clashes outside the state radio & TV building in Maspero lodged complaints with the public prosecutor, Counselor ‘Abd al-Majīd Mahmūd, against former Defense Minister and Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces...
Date of source: Sunday, October 7, 2012
The Maspero Martyrs’ Families Union vociferously criticized the Maspero Youths Union, terming it in a statement on Saturday (October 6) of being a “corrupt entity” and accusing it of capitalizing on the Maspero youths’ blood to collect funds from Copts illegitimately.
Date of source: Sunday, October 7, 2012
Priest Philopater Jamīl of the Virgin Mary Church in ‘Izbit al-Nakhl area, northern Cairo, did a hatchet job on the regime of President Muhammad Mursī and accused him and the Muslim Brotherhood over a channel relaying from the United States of involvement in a bombing attack that targeted the Two...
Date of source: Sunday, November 4, 2012
First Attorney General for the Western Alexandria Prosecutions, Counselor Muhammad ‘Abd al-Salām, ordered the arrest of Mahmūd Abū Zayd, an owner of a bookshop, on charges of abducting a minor girl of the name Sarah Ishaq ‘Abd al-Malik, 14, in al-Dab’ah area, Mersa Matrouh governorate, a month ago...
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2012
Archpriest Mattias Nasr, Father of Virgin Mary Church in ‘Izbit al-Nakhl, has testified in front of a presidential fact-finding committee looking into the events at Maspero October 2011, which left 27 dead. The committee is headed by Counselor Aymān‘Afīfī, and has investigated accusations from Fr....
Date of source: Wednesday, August 22, 2012
In Rose al-Yūsuf, ‘Alā’ al-Hīnī writes about a case in al-Minya governorate where security services have succeeded in ending a sectarian conflict by holding a reconciliatory meeting between Muslims and Christians in the village of Dār al-Barshā. This meeting came after an outbreak of violence...
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2012
‘Āsim, an attorney, filed the first lawsuit against Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, former Minister of Defense, accusing him of killing protesters in the incidents at Maspero, Muhammad Mahmūd, the Cabinet building, and the massacres in Port Said and al-‘Abbāsīyah.
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Calm was restored at Dayr al-Birshā village of Mallawī Township, al-Minya governorate after security forces pacified a Muslim-Christian fitnah that had sparked there. The fitnah was flamed by an argument between two members of the family of ‘Abd al-Qādir and the family of Abū ‘Azīz that then...
Date of source: Monday, August 13, 2012
An official judicial source has said that the Public Attorney’s office has concluded its investigation into the killing of 25-year-old Mu’āz Muhammad Ahmād amid the events of the recent ‘shirt fitnah’ in Dahshūr village, Giza governorate.