Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2000
The counselor Maher Abdel-Wahed, the attorney general, continues to pursue the investigations, which are being made by high state security prosecution into the tragic incidents in Al-Kosheh village in Sohag and Dar Al-Salam district. The prosecution team listened to the testimonies of 45 Christians...
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2000
The prosecution of Sohag under the supervision of Osama Al-Rashidi, the general attorney of Sohag’s prosecutions, continued the investigations in the cases of destruction and looting which Dar Al-Salam City had witnessed on January 2 and 3. The prosecution listened to the testimonies of two police...
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: 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: Wednesday, January 12, 2000
In Sohag, the Tagammu Party issued a statement which criticized all the forms of extremism and the processes of killing, looting from, and torturing the other under the guise of religion.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 12, 2000
Ahmed Abdel-Aziz Bakr, the governor of Sohag, declared that a subsidiary [bank] account will be opened in order to receive donations for fixing the damages that occurred during the latest incidents. Heshmat Abul-Khar, a member of the Consultative Council, donated 50 thousand pounds as also did the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 12, 2000
The Social, Awqaf [Religious Endowments] and Religious Affairs Committee in the People’s Assembly have decided that they should visit Al-Koshh in order to investigate the real situation there.
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: Tuesday, January 11, 2000
Mr. Gamal Asaad Abdel-Malak, the ex-member of the People’s Assembly and the member of the executive committee and Al-Amal Party [The Labor Party], commented on the disastrous incidents that have happened in Al-Koshh by the following: "The wise men of the nation should intervene and the attempt to...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 11, 2000
The crisis of Al-Koshh revealed the existence of good examples that should be followed.
Several individual persons are mentioned.