Acquittal in assault of Christian woman casts pall over Christmas for Egypt’s Coptic community
By Shahara Amin– Al-Monitor – A controversial court ruling acquitting three defendants — a father and his two sons — who had stripped naked and [...]
Coptic Solidarity Condemns Egypt’s Egregious Miscarriage of Justice for Coptic Grandmother
By Coptic Solidarity – Christian News Wire Coptic Solidarity condemns in the strongest terms the egregious ruling by a Minya court to acquit all defendants in the case of Soad Thabet, an [...]
Coptic Solidarity Condemns Egypt’s Egregious Miscarriage of Justice for Coptic Grandmother
By Coptic Solidarity Coptic Solidarity condemns in the strongest terms the egregious ruling by a Minya court to acquit all defendants in the case of Soad Thabet, an elderly Coptic woman who was [...]
Egypt Court Acquits Men Who Attacked Elderly Christian Woman
By AFP An Egyptian court acquitted Thursday three defendants who stripped and dragged an elderly Coptic Christian woman through her village in 2016, a judicial source said. Soad Thabet, 74, was [...]
Egypt: Elderly Coptic Woman Stripped Naked and Beaten Denied Justice – Again
By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity Once again, the Egyptian court system seems committed to denying justice to Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority. For the second time in a [...]
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 [...]
Still Waiting for Justice: The Legal Plight of Egypt’s Christians
By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for Coptic Solidarity – Once again, last week the Egyptian court system denied justice to Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority by postponing judgment on two [...]
How Egypt’s Judiciary Enables the Victimization of Coptic Christians
By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for Coptic Solidarity – On Sunday, March 17, the ruling court in Minya, Egypt, recused itself and stepped down from two ongoing cases concerning the [...]
Coptic woman stripped and beaten: Case dismissed
Nader Shukry – Watani International – Copts and liberal Egyptians were in for a disappointment on Saturday 14 January when Minya prosecution dismissed the case of the stripping and [...]
The “Coptic issue” and the cycle of suffering
By Mina Fayek , Open Democracy – Last week, an Egyptian court ordered the release of all defendants accused of assaulting a Coptic woman in the southern city of Minya. Rumors had spread of [...]
