News & Reports

By Egypt Independent – The Giza Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced seven defendants to 15 years in prison each, and acquitted two others, in re-trial procedures over burning a church in [...]

By President Donald J. Trump – Issued on: June 1, 2020 I send my best wishes for a peaceful and blessed celebration to the millions of Coptic Christians in the United States and around the [...]

By Middle East Monitor – Editor’s note: The Copts arrested in this incident were released several days later. Egyptian security forces have arrested 14 Copts and assaulted a priest in [...]

By Al- Monitor – As the world celebrated World Press Freedom Day, journalists in Egypt were being subjected to an arrest campaign by Egyptian security forces, while the authorities banned [...]

By Mada Masr – Imprisoned activist Alaa Abd El Fattah has ended a more than one-month hunger strike he had launched after he and other defendants were prevented from attending detention [...]

By Watani – The lawyer of a Coptic woman who had been stabbed in the neck last January and whose case was dismissed by the prosecution, has requested reopening the case. The prosecution had [...]

By Al Monitor – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has ratified amendments to the country’s Emergency Law, granting the armed forces the power of judicial oversight [...]

By Marlo Safi – The Daily Caller – An US-based advocacy group for minorities in Egypt is alerting the world about the disappearances and forced conversions to Islam of Christian [...]

By Amnesty International – The decisions by a “terrorism circuit” judges at the Cairo Criminal Court to extend – without respect for basic due process guarantees – the pre-trial detention [...]

By Seth Binder of POMED and William D. Hartung of Center for International Policy – Since overthrowing Egypt’s democratically elected president in 2013, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has [...]