Monthly Archives: February 2009

In another episode of broken justice for the two Copts who are being used as scapegoats to force an unfair reconciliation settlement on the Coptic Church in connection with Arab attacks on 'Abu Fana' Monastery last May, Minya State Security arrested for the second time, Refaat Fawzi and his brother Ibrahim in spite of courts rulings to release them. They have been sent once again on 22nd February 2009 to the detention camp in the New Valley, on the borders of Sudan.

A bomb exploded Sunday in a famed bazaar in medieval Cairo, killing a Frenchwoman and wounding at least 17 people — most of them foreign tourists, officials said.

Coptic lawyer Ramsis El Naggar, the Coptic Church's lawyer, delivered a letter on 20th February from H.H. Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria, to Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, the Egyptian President's wife, and President of the National Council for Motherhood and Childhood. He asked her to intervene with the Civil Records Bureau to try and resolve the crisis in the field of religious affiliation in the state identification documents of over 2000 Christians to reflect their “re-conversion” to Christianity status.

After the girl "F.M" (presently 19 years old) disappeared in March 2007, from her family home in Ismailia, her family searched long before finding out that a Muslim neighbor, convince her to marry him, and converted her to Islam, with the assistance of the local" police"

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) welcomes the release of Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour, head of the liberal Al-Ghad Party, and President Mubarak's most prominent opponent in the first presidential elections that took place in Egypt in 2005.