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Prosecution renews Patrick’s detention for 15 further days on his first renewal hearing

By EIPR – On the 22nd of February, Patrick Zaki stood before Mansoura II Prosecution for a scheduled hearing on the state of his detention. The Prosecution ultimately decided for the [...]

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Boko Haram Terrorists Attack Predominantly Christian Community in Northeast Nigeria

By Morning Star News – Islamic extremist militants from terrorist group Boko Haram on Friday night (Feb. 21) destroyed three worship sites and an unspecified number of houses in northeast [...]

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Personal Status of Copts: Crisis Made by State and Church

By Ishak Ibrahim – TIMEP Recently in a rare ruling, an Egyptian court, in a case brought by a Christian woman demanding the equal distribution of inheritance between herself and her male [...]

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Al-Karm Copts go back on their testimony against those who burned their homes

By Nader Shukry – Watani  Just a few days before their case is seen in court, and some two weeks after the ‘lady of al-Karm’ was granted justice by court, four of the five al-Karm Copts [...]

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Mideast Patriarchs Tell Pope They’re Concerned About Christian Survival

By Doreen Abi Raad – Catholic News Service In a private meeting with Pope Francis, Catholic patriarchs of the Middle East had an opportunity to sound the alarm regarding the survival of [...]

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Egypt: Government retaliates against rights researcher with electric shock torture and false charges

By CIHRS – The undersigned organizations demand the immediate and unconditional release of Patrick George Zaki, a researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and  graduate [...]

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Italy alarmed after Egyptian studying in Bologna arrested in Cairo

By Ruth Michaelson in Cairo and Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo – The Guardian – An Egyptian researcher who is studying in Italy has been arrested on arrival in Cairo on charges of “harming [...]

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Egypt Arrests Human Rights Activist Who Criticized Gov’t

By The Associated Press –  Egyptian police arrested an activist and researcher who was a vocal critic of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s government, the interior ministry and a [...]

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Chaldean Patriarch: Iraq Must Be a Secular State to Overcome Violence

By Asia News – Iraq must preserve its “unity” in the “diversity of its components” and their “multiplicity”, although in recent years “most [...]

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An Egyptian Human Rights defender disappeared and tortured:

By: EIPR – EIPR Gender & Rights Researcher Patrick George Zaki, arrested on arrival at Cairo airport, tortured and sent to Public Prosecution after 24 hours of incommunicado detention. [...]