News & Reports

By POMED – At the latest hearing in the trial of researcher Patrick George Zaki on April 5, his lawyers challenged the Emergency State Security Court’s authority to hear his case. Zaki was [...]

By MEMRI – According to Pakistani media reports, three female students of a religious madrassa in the Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan beheaded their female teacher because a 13-year-old female [...]

By: Al-Monitor – Recent fatwas remind Egyptian Muslims that receiving interest on a savings account is permitted, but profiteering from scarce supplies is not. A recent interest rate hike [...]

AFP – Agence France Presse – Rights groups on Monday said an Egyptian request for a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) must require Cairo to expand social protection, [...]

By Amnesty International – The Egyptian authorities must immediately release nine Coptic Christians who were arbitrarily detained after peacefully protesting against the authorities’ [...]

By World Watch Monitor – An Egyptian Christian was stabbed multiple times when he tried to rescue his son who was held against his will by a Muslim neighbour in Alexandria. On the night of [...]

By FR-24 – The Taliban ordered girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan to shut Wednesday just hours after they reopened, an official confirmed, sparking confusion and heartbreak over [...]

By POMED – The Egyptian government’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) held a meeting, on March 20, with the representatives of several political parties, all of whom operate in a [...]

By  The New York Times – The recent lynching of a man accused of burning pages from a Quran underscored Pakistan’s leading status as a site of religious violence. KARACHI, Pakistan — [...]

By M.E.E. – Egypt’s government has grand plans to transform a Unesco-listed World Heritage Site, but locals watch the construction works with unease. A development project in the ancient [...]