Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
The director of the Egyptian Center for Development Studies and Human Rights, and lawyer for the Coptic Church of Saint Mark and Pope Peter (also known as the Church of the Two Saints), Joseph Malāk, has filed a complaint to the Attorney General accusing many prominent figures, including ‘Abd al-...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
In the governorate of Dakahlia Counselor Mansūr Saqr, Head of the Criminal Court in Dakahlia, has stepped down from the trial of 19 men accused of killing a taxi driver. Residents of his village Sandūb gathered outside the court in Mansura to protest against the most severe punishment. General...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
The Criminal Court in Naj’ Hammādī (Nag Hammadi) has sentenced eight men accused of killing two Copts to death, and transferred their papers to the Muftī and the General Prosecution for further legal opinion. Security services had originally received a report on 26th January 2011 of the death of Mu...
Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2014
The three defendants in the attack on the Virgin Mary Church in the 6th of October City have given the investigators information on the seventh colleague who participated in the attack on the church (Muhammad al- Qamāsh, al- Misrī al- Yawm, Feb. 8). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Monday, February 3, 2014
The prosecution ordered the imprisonment pending investigations of the third suspect in the same case. The prosecution has ordered downloading the mobile e pmessages and the lap–top contents to find the real perpetrators of the crime (Umniyah Ibrāhīm and Ahmad Sharbāsh, al- Wafd, Feb. 3, p. 3). ...
Date of source: Thursday, June 19, 2014
The Giza criminal court has decided to sentence 12 defendants who were accused of taking part in killing General Nabīl Farāg in Kirdāsah, Giza to death, pending the opinion of the grand muftī.
Date of source: Friday, June 15, 2012
The three Coptic Orthodox, Evangelical and Catholic Churches also declined to comment on the rulings handed down by the Supreme Constitutional Court on Thursday (June 14) regarding the invalidity of the one-third individual seats in parliament and the unconstitutionality of the law on practicing...
Date of source: Monday, May 28, 2012
Dozens of Copts protested outside the Supreme Court to reject verdicts sentencing 12 Christians to 25-year imprisonment terms in the case of sectarian unrest in Abū Qurqās, al-Minya, in April. [‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān, al-Wafd, May 28, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Monday, June 18, 2012
The Administrative Judiciary Court on Tuesday is looking into the case of dissolving the Muslim Brotherhood group.
The lawsuit was filed by lawyer Shihātah Muhammad Shihātah against Muslim Brotherhood Murshid (Guide) Muhammad Badī’ and FJP leader Muhammad Mursī, saying that the group has been...
Date of source: Monday, June 18, 2012
In a fresh escalated reaction to the Constitutional Court’s ruling invalidating the law on the election of the People’s Assembly, the lower house of the two-chamber parliament, legislators from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) insisted on convening a legislative committee...