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By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive to Coptic Solidarity – An Egyptian government-appointed village mayor has just ruled that a Christian family must sell its home and leave their village, [...]

By Egyptian Streets – When people think of Upper Egypt, what often comes to mind is rural life, poverty, background cultural traditions, and more negative misconceptions that does not [...]

By Mada Masr – A prominent member of a party participating in the Senate elections — scheduled for August 8 and 9 for expatriate voters, and August 11 and 12 domestically — jokes that the [...]

By Mada Masr – Italy gave the go-ahead for the sale of two Fremm frigates to Egypt for an estimated value of 1.2 billion euros on Monday, according to Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. [...]

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 [...]

By Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies – The signatory human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian government’s reckless refusal to release select groups of detainees for the sake [...]

By The Guardian – Egyptian authorities have forced a Guardian journalist to leave the country after she reported on a scientific study that said Egypt was likely to have many more [...]

This update  was sent to Coptic Solidarity’s supporters on March 16, 2020. I’m writing to you from Geneva, where I arrived last Wednesday and headed to the UN as planned. Most of you have [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – Lindsay Griffin of Coptic Solidarity was scheduled to give this speech to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, but the session was cancelled due to COVID [...]