Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Security men in Cairo succeeded in arresting a man who threw explosives into the German Embassy. Investigations showed that the culprit’s name is Khālid Muhammad Ahmad.
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2012
‘Āsim, an attorney, filed the first lawsuit against Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, former Minister of Defense, accusing him of killing protesters in the incidents at Maspero, Muhammad Mahmūd, the Cabinet building, and the massacres in Port Said and al-‘Abbāsīyah.
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Expatriate Copt organizations staged protests at Egyptian embassies in a number of European capitals. The Dutch Coptic Association, headed by Bahā’ Ramzī, is at the top of these protests as it organized a protest at the Egyptian Embassy in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Calm was restored at Dayr al-Birshā village of Mallawī Township, al-Minya governorate after security forces pacified a Muslim-Christian fitnah that had sparked there. The fitnah was flamed by an argument between two members of the family of ‘Abd al-Qādir and the family of Abū ‘Azīz that then...
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Egypt’s Copts Coalition stated its participation in the August 24 protests to confirm the civility of the state and enforce the goals of the Revolution
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2012
A quarrel erupted on August 22 between Islamists and leftists following Dr. ‘Isām ‘Iryān’s attack on the latter. ‘Iryān, acting leader of the Freedom and Justice Party, accused leftists of receiving foreign funds and acting superior towards the people. (Ahmad ‘Alām, al-Misrī al-Yawm, August 23, p...
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2012
Jirjis Fikrī, in an opinion piece in al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, said that Copts have been living in their ghetto for 30 years for many reasons. However, these reasons lead to one result which is that the church developed an administrative hierarchy similar to that of the state! For instance, the church...
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2012
Middle East Online Website published an article on August 24 entitled “Egypt’s Morsi scraps preventive detention for publishing crimes” by Dominique Soguel. Below is the original text of the article:
Egyptian newspaper editor Islam Afifi was freed after a few hours in custody on Thursday, a...
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2012
Counselor Mahmūd Mikī, Vice-President, said that a series of new legislations and law amendments will be issued that would lift restrictions of freedoms.
“Wait for a revolution in legislations soon that will be in favor of citizens’ rights and freedoms,” he said. (
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2012
Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian far-right extremist, has been sentenced to at least 21 years in prison after a court declared he was sane throughout his murderous rampage last year that killed 77 people and wounded 242.
The Oslo district court declared its verdict that the 33-year-old was...