Date of source: Thursday, November 19, 1998
This article discusses the several faxes Lord David Alton of Liverpool wrote to Sohag’s governor Ahmad Abd Al-Aziz Bakr concerning the issue of al-Koshh.
Date of source: Monday, November 16, 1998
These pictures have exceeded any form of freedom and all forms of art. We have not published them although we have them. Our reason is known. It is that Egypt is a country that respects religions.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 17, 1998
Egyptian human rights organizations are used to being attacked by government and its allied journalists once a year at one particular time. That is when the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council holds its meeting to discuss reports prepared by their branches all...
Date of source: Friday, November 13, 1998
The paper interviewed people in the street, actors, actresses and journalists who all stressed the unity between Muslims and Christians. Dr. William Qilada discusses the Hamayouni law. The paper is convinced countries as Britain and Israel would like to see Egypt’s national unity destroyed.
Date of source: Monday, November 16, 1998
At the same time that Britain claimed that Egypt’s Copts are being crucified and persecuted, British racism has presented a new chapter in the series of Muslim persecution in the land of the alleged just empire.
Date of source: Monday, November 16, 1998
If the Sunday Telegraph was interested in the issues of minorities, and if it really cared about the rights of minorities, it would have concentrated more on the issue of Catholics in Northern Ireland.
Date of source: Sunday, November 15, 1998
Egypt’s Information Office in New Delhi invited Indian journalists to visit Egypt to see the real events instead of quoting falsified reports of British papers claiming Egypt’s Copts are persecuted. An Egyptian media councilor in New Delhi clarified that Christina Lamb’s report which was quoted by...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 11, 1998
Reacting to the Sunday Telegraph’s lies and allegations, two prominent Coptic businessmen decided to sue the paper’s reporter, Christina Lamb, before an English court. They have accused her of reporting false events harming Egypt’s Copts and defaming Egypt’s national unity in order to hinder its...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 10, 1998
What was published in the Sunday Telegraph and other US newspapers [the Sunday Telegraph is published in the United Kingdom- editor] in terms of paid advertisement comes from a very small minority of Copts living abroad, whose number does not exceed seven and are known by name. They paid more than...
Date of source: Sunday, November 8, 1998
The Sohag issue seemed to be settled. Expatriate Copts stopped sending faxes and the bishop had stopped making trouble. Then on October 25 the Sunday Telegraph came out and blew the story up. Members of the foreign press in Egypt scoffed at many of the statements in an article of Al Ahram.