by admin_HRWF | Jan 16, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Priests evicted, building shuttered. Morning Star News (19.01.2019) – https://bit.ly/2VPtiU6 – Police in Upper Egypt evicted Coptic priests and shuttered their church building after an Islamist mob converged on the site over the weekend,...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 18, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Father and son working at nearby building site shot dead after argument La Croix International (14.12.2018) – https://bit.ly/2rKgT6g – A security guard working for a church in Egypt killed two Coptic Christians, a father and son, on Dec. 12 after...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 5, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
The Telegraph (02.11.2018) – https://bit.ly/2PDQPXW – Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Coptic Christians in central Egypt on Friday, killing at least seven in the latest attack on a religious minority repeatedly targeted by jihadists. The attackers...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 15, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Sentenced another 19 defendants to life imprisonment or several years in prison. For the judges they are guilty of membership of the Islamic State. Activists and NGOs against the trial in a military court. “Horrible” attacks, but an “unjust”...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 21, 2017 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Sonia Farid Al Arabiya English (20.11.2017) – http://bit.ly/2A05Ity – “We said nothing when one church was closed, so it got worse and a second, then a third were closed, and a fourth is on its way as if praying is a crime for which Copts are...
