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By Coptic Solidarity – The Egyptian Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and criminalizes discrimination based on religion. Yet, the second article of the Constitution states that [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – As 2019 drew to a close, I reviewed a number of Coptic issues that had not been resolved during the year, meaning they had to be carried into 2020 for [...]

By Nada Shaker – Al-Monitor The philanthropist Magda Gobran, known as both Mama Maggie and Egypt’s Mother Teresa, is among the candidates nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. Garnett [...]

By The Guardian – Egypt pays tribute to former president, who died at 91, amid tight security in Cairo Former Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak has been buried in Cairo with a full military [...]

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 [...]

By Declan Walsh and Elisabetta Povoledo – The New York Times CAIRO — When an Egyptian student was arrested at the Cairo Airport recently, it was hardly an unusual event. Egypt’s security [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]