Date of source: Sunday, December 20, 1998
False claims are made that Islam violates human rights. The notion of human rights in the West is used to make false claims against Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 15, 1998
I apologize for writing frankly about such a sensitive issue, which is the issue of human rights in Egypt. Experiences with Western media taught us that because we are not frank, we give chances for others to make claims and to believe such claims.
Date of source: Monday, December 14, 1998
On the occasion of the Golden Jubilee for the International Declaration of Human Rights, which is being celebrated these days by the world, the Research and Studies Center of Third World Countries, of the Political Science College at Cairo University, has held a symposium on the future of human...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 15, 1998
Since the setback of June 1967, the Al-Ahram paper has lost its credibility in covering Egypt’s internal affairs. 760 repentant Muslim extremists were released but stories of torture committed by police to extract confessions are frequently coming back.
Date of source: Friday, December 11, 1998
Police arrested in the past two days a new group of people in Kafr Al-Sheikh and Ismailia and accused them of joining the Muslim Brothers.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 8, 1998
While the whole world is celebrating the golden jubilee for the World Declaration of Human Rights, we here in Egypt celebrate it in a different way, which assures our backwardness in the field of human rights.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 8, 1998
No one can diminish the important role the human rights organizations played. They created directly or indirectly a form of new awareness in the society regarding human rights in light of the diminishing and weakened role of the opposition parties.
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
Egyptian authorities have prevented the lawyers and wife of a human rights leader from visiting him, a rights group said Friday.
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
The leader of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) has been arrested for "accepting funds from a foreign country with the intention of carrying out acts detrimental to Egypt."
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 1998
The secretary-general [of the EOHR] was called in for investigations and was detained by the prosecutor. He said that the cheque had no relation to the report on el-Koshh.