Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2000
Yesterday, the high state security prosecution continued the investigation into the incidents of Al-Kosheh under the supervision of the counselor, Hisham Saraya, the general attorney of the high state security prosecution. The investigation team listened to the testimonies of 45 new suspects. The...
Date of source: Saturday, January 15, 2000
The investigations in the case of Al-Kosheh are estimated to conclude by the middle of next week. Upon the end of the investigations, the prosecution decision is to be announced. An intention to refer those accused who have been proved to have been involved in the incidents to the State Security...
Date of source: Saturday, January 15, 2000
[Political] Gamblers are accustomed to using events to their own benefit. And this is what happened after the incidents of Al-Kosheh. The language has deteriorated and become a real danger to Egyptian national security, which everybody rejects for its bad effect on the political atmosphere and the...
Date of source: Friday, January 14, 2000
Human rights’ activists accused the officials of the Ministry of Interior of deliberately delaying the taking of any firm actions against the accused in the events of August 1998, in Al-Kosheh. This delay encouraged the unfortunate violent actions that happened recently in the same place.
Date of source: Thursday, January 13, 2000
Bishop Wissa, Bishop of Al-Balyana and Dar El-Salam, where Al-Kosheh is located, was sending many faxes to international human rights organizations, and to Copts living abroad, demanding that they rise and save the Copts of Egypt from the killings they suffer at the hands of Muslims!!! Wissa spoke...
Date of source: Saturday, January 15, 2000 to Friday, January 21, 2000
Opinion article about the consequences of the killings in al-Kosheh. The author writes about national unity and is of the opinion that those who call for the setting up of political parties on religious basis should shut up once and for all.
Date of source: Friday, January 7, 2000
President Mubarak decided on December 28, 1999, to easy the procedure for restoring Churches. The procedure for restoring Churches and Mosques is now the same.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 12, 2000
What happened in Al-Koshh can be described as the new nightmare of the new century. These nightmares have reasons which should not be ignored. The Minister of External affairs insisted in his speech in front of the Shura [that is, Consultative] Council and People’s Assembly that what happened was...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 12, 2000
The counselor Maher Abdel-Wahed [the attorney general] goes to Sohag today in order to follow the investigations into the Al-Koshh incidents. He is accompanied by the counselors Abdel-Magid Mahmoud (the assistant attorney general), and Hisham Saraya, the first general attorney.
Date of source: Monday, January 10, 2000
The Coptic former member of Parliament, Gamal Asaad, says that there is a crisis that should be handled and a priest whose role should be restricted. The Coptic researcher Rafiq Habib and the Christian historian Yunan Labib Rizq believes the violence was related to a poisoned public atmosphere