LA Times, 8/30/2010 Three lawyers have filed a lawsuit against President Hosni Mubarak, holding him indirectly responsible for the disappearance of a priest's wife following her alleged conversion from Christianity to Islam. Kamelia Shehata Zakher, wife of priest Thaddeus Samaan Rizk of Mowas Prio...

 AFP, 8/20/2010 - CAIRO — An Egyptian doctor has been arrested after she performed a botched circumcision that killed a young girl, a newspaper reported on Friday. The independent daily Shorouk reported that police were alerted to the death of the girl, whose body was illegally bu...

CDN, 8/18/2010 A Coptic Christian blogger arrested in Egypt on false charges of insulting Islam, then held for almost two years without charge under the country’s Emergency Law, has been released from prison. Hani Nazeer, 31, a high school social worker and blogger was arrested Oct. 3, 200...

Article translated for CAA by Ed Shafik from the original published in Youm7 Attorney Mamdoh Nahkala, President of the AlKalema (“The WORD”) Center for Human Rights, demanded that the Egyptian Government announce the Coptic population. Two months ago, he sent a letter to Egypt’...

 طالب ممدوح نخلة المحامى رئيس مركز "الكلمة" لحقوق الإنسان الحكومة بإعلان تعداد الأقباط، موضحاً أنه منذ شهرين أرسل بيانا إلى وزير الخارجية المصرى للسماح باستقدام لجنة دولية من الأمم المتحدة "محايدة" مكونة من 4 دول أجنبية لعمل تعداد المسيحيين المصريين ولكن لم تلتفت إليه الخارج...

Translated from the original article by George Bushra for Copts United At 2pm on Thursday July 22nd, Attorney Naguib Ghobrial (President of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights) gave a statement to Copts United announcing that Egyptian authorities had released Egyptian Coptic blogger Hani N...

 جرجس بشرى- خاص الأقباط متحدون أكد المستشار "نجيب جبرائيل" -رئيس المنظمة المصرية لحقوق الإنسان- لصحيفة "الأقباط متحدون" أن السلطات المصرية قامت بإطلاق سراح المدّون المصري القبطي "هاني نظير"، وذلك في تمام الساعة الثانية من ظهر اليوم الخميس. وقال"جبرائيل"...

Translated by Ed Shafik for CAA from the original article by Remon Yousef published by Copts United on 7/9/2010: The lawyer for the family of George Shafik (the 29-year-old Deacon who was murdered in his apartment on October 7th, 2009) expressed surprise at the hearing held on 4/24/2010 at a medi...

 (AFP) – 7/7/10 CAIRO — Egypt's highest judiciary body on Wednesday overturned a ruling ordering the Coptic church to allow its faithful to remarry, the official MENA news agency said, in a move welcomed by the church. The Supreme Constitutional Court overturned a May decision b...

 كتب: ريمون يوسف– خاص الأقباط متحدون صرح المستشار "جورج أنطون أسعد" المحامي، أنه بجلسة 24/4/2010م، والخاصة بجريمة قتل الشماس "جورج فتحي شفيق" 29 سنة، والذي تم قتله يوم 6/10/2009م، أن هيئة الدفاع -والمتمثلة في "جورج أنطون أسعد"، و"مقبل صبحي عطية"، و...

 7/8/10 - CAIRO (Reuters) - Two policemen accused in the death of an Egyptian activist will go on trial for torture on July 27, in a case that has drawn the attention of governments and rights groups abroad and led to protests at home. Khaled Said, 28, died on June 6 in the port city of A...

 By Essam Fadl /Special to Daily News Egypt June 30, 2010 CAIRO: The Administrative Court postponed the case of covert to Christianity Maher El-Gohary to Nov. 19, because of a feud between his three lawyers. El-Gohary, who converted to Christianity 34 years ago, had filed a case against P...

 In his capacity as the Pope of the church of Alexandria and the Patriarch of St. Mark Episcopate of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda III’s defense will be submitted tomorrow (Thursday) to appeal against the judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court First Chamber, Appeal No. 1...

 حصل اليوم السابع على نسخة المذكرة المقدمة من دفاع البابا شنودة الثالث بصفته بابا الإسكندرية وبطريرك الكرازة المرقسية للأقباط الأرثوذكس التى سيتم تقديمها غداً الخميس، للطعن ضد الحكم الصادر من المحكمة الإدارية العليا – الدائرة الأولى – موضوع فى الطعن رقم 12244 لسنة 55 ق. عليا بجلستها...

By Essam Fadl / Special to Daily News Egypt June 10, 2010 CAIRO: The Supreme Administrative Court agreed to a writ by Pope Shenouda on its May 29 ruling that obliged him to allow divorced Orthodox Copts to remarry. While there are no appeals in supreme courts, accepting a writ means the implem...

 Translated by Mary Samy for CAA from the original article posted by Katiba Atibiya on 5/16/10 In an evolution of this case, which some observers described as a very positive development, the Judge walked in today's meeting of the Criminal court (Saturday, May 15th 2010) in Qena, on the issu...

في تطور وصفه المتابعون بأنه تطور إيجابي جداً انسحب القاضي في جلسة اليوم السبت الموافق 15 مايو 2010 بمحكمة جنايات قنا من قضية جرجس بارومي جرجس المتهم باغتصاب فتاة فرشوط في جلسة وصفت بأنها حاسمة... حيث بدأت أحداث الجلسة السرية بسماع دفاع المجني عليها وأقوال الفتاة ووالدتها ووالدها وبعد ذلك تقدم دفاع ا...

CAIRO, Egypt, May 17 2010 (CDN) — An Egyptian convert to Christianity said he is devastated by a recent court decision to suspend a lawsuit he filed to change the religion on his identification card from Muslim to Christian. The First District of the Court of the State Council on April 27 sus...

 I am not about to tackle court rulings or to criticise them. The judicial authority warrants all due respect and reverence; and there are legal, well established routes to follow if one is to question or contest a ruling. I am just about to comment on a few rulings which appear revolutionary i...

Translated by Ed Shafik for CAA from the original by Jamal Gergis El Mezahem, published in CoptReal via Youm7 on 4/21/2010 His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, Alexandria’s Pope and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese, confirmed that the Nag Hammadi legal case is not just a local Egyptian affair but an ...

البابا شنودة: مذبحة نجع حمادى قضية عالمية   البابا شنودة الثالث بابا الإسكندرية وبطريرك الكرازة المرقسية كتب جمال جرجس المزاحم أكد قداسة البابا شنودة الثالث بابا الإسكندرية وبطريرك الكرازة المرقسية، أن قضية مذبحة نجع حمادى ليست قضية محلية بل قضية عالمية يترقبها العالم وينتظر الحكم فيها. ...

◄◄ أحذر من دخول مصر فى فوضى صاخبة إذا لم ندعم مفهوم الدولة المدنية بسرعة فى عام 2002 صدر قرار تعيين المحامية تهانى الجبالى كأول قاضية فى مصر، وتحولت من القضاء الواقف فى قاعات المحاكم إلى القضاء الجالس على منصة العدالة، وسط انقسام طبيعى حينها بين فريقين مؤيد ومعارض ورغم ذلك فإنها عندما ج...

Almasry Alyoum, 2/25/10 The controversial issue of appointing female judges to Egypt's authoritative State Council took another turn on Monday, when State Council head Mohammad el-Husseini ignored a majority vote by the council's general assembly barring the appointment of female judges to the coun...

By Essam Fadl / Special to Daily News Egypt First Published: February 1, 2010 CAIRO: The lawyer of a man who converted from Islam to Christianity sent a memo to the United Nation’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in a bid to urge the Egyptian government to allow him...

Associated Press, 1/19/2010 New lawyers for an Egyptian Christian accused of raping a Muslim girl, in an incident that may have sparked a Chrismas Eve massacre, successfully petitioned Tuesday for the postponing of his trial to allow further investigation. Girgis Baroumi's lawyers requested a fo...

1/28/10 CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court has overturned the decision of Egypt's leading Islamic educational institution to ban the niqab, or full face veil, among its female students and teachers. Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of al-Azhar, which is controlled by the state, issued the ba...

(AFP) – 1/19/2010 CAIRO — The trial of an Egyptian Coptic Christian man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old Muslim girl has been adjourned till February 17, the official MENA news agency reported. The hearing took place in the southern city of Qena, around 600...

The Associated Press Saturday, January 16, 2010; 4:40 PM CAIRO -- The suspects in a drive-by shooting that killed seven people outside an Egyptian church on Coptic Christmas Eve will be tried in an emergency state security court. Prosecutor General Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud on Saturday referred the...

Article translated from the original by Sahar Talaat, pictures are by Esam ElShamy “We are Christians, and we will live and die without changing our declaration of faith. Why is the government trying to push us into a religion by force?” This was the cry of two children, Mario and Andre...

كتبت سحر طلعت - تصوير عصام الشامى "إحنا مسيحيين هنعيش ونموت كده، وليه الحكومة بتعمل معانا كده هو الدين بالعافية؟".. عبارات أطلقها الطفلان أندرو وماريو، وذلك أثناء حضورهما لمتابعة أولى جلسات الدعوى القضائية التى أقامتها نيابة عنهما والدتهما كاميليا لطفى جاب الله، لتغيير بياناتهما فى شهادتى...

The National, 10/9/09 CAIRO // An Egyptian human rights lawyer has taken a fellow solicitor to court over perceived abuses of the Islamic doctrine of Hesba. Hesba entitles any Muslim to take legal action against anyone considered harmful to Islam. In Egypt, it is also used to defend what some cons...

LA Times, September 25, 2009 | 8:32 am   A prominent judge who recently quit his post as deputy chief of Egypt's appeal court, said that judges in the country have officially become "hated figures" to the ruling regime since they exposed the forgery that occurred during the presiden...

9/17/09 CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Thursday jailed two Christian Egyptian-American couples for two years in a high profile illegal adoption case in mainly Muslim Egypt. The couples, including two U.S. citizens and their Egyptian-born spouses, have spent the duration of the trial i...

يسجل حزب الغـد ببالغ الأسف، رفضه التام لممارسات وزارة الداخلية في إفساد العملية السياسية من خلال التزوير الصريح في الانتخابات والتلاعب في إجراءاتها، في سبيل إنجاح مرشح الحزب الحاكم قسراً ورغماً عن إرادة الناخبين، وهو ما تجلى لكل ذي عين رأت فاستنكرت ما حدث في انتخابات مجلس الشعب التي جرت الأسبوع ا...

Translated from the original article published by the BBC On Thursday, July 9th, according to an official report, Egypt’s Interior Ministry declared the arrest of 25 Egyptians and one Palestinian as part of a terror cell that embraced thoughts of jihad and the concept of infidels. The stat...

6/27/09, AINA Washington -- Faith groups, non-governmental organizations, and religious leaders from across the political spectrum have called on the US Government to prevent the deportation of Sameh Khouzam, a Coptic Christian, back to Egypt. In letters to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Cl...

بقلم مادونا شاكر فى خضم أحداث قرية بشرى الشرقية بمركز الفشن محافظة بنى سويف وما قام به مسلمى القرية من أعمال إجرامية فى حق أقباطها من تحطيم لممتلكاتهم وحرق لحقول القطن الخاصة بهم .. وتدمير زروعهم والتعدى عليهم بالضرب وإحداث إصابات لأكثر من 20 قبطى .. بمعاونة الأمن المركزى الإرهابى بل وبتشجيع منه ...

LOS ANGELES, July 1 2009 (Compass Direct News) – A Christian mother in Egypt has won custody of her twin sons from her estranged husband, who had converted to Islam and claimed them according to Islamic legal precepts. The now 15-year-old boys, however, will still be considered Muslims...

WASHINGTON (BP - 7/1/09)--An Egyptian court has granted custody of Coptic Christian twins to their mother but also ruled that the twins must be considered Muslim on their identification cards. Kamilia Gaballah, the mother of Andrew and Mario, has fought with her ex-husband Medhat Ramses Labib over ...

Translated from the original report by Emad Thomas, 6/16/09 On Monday June 19th, the Supreme Court ruled to cancel the previous judgment from the appeals court against Mrs. Camellia, which renounced her custody of her children and annexed them to their father after he converted to Islam. On Tu...

تقرير: عماد توماس - خاص الأقباط متحدون قضت محكمة النقض يوم الاثنين 15 يونيو 2009، بإلغاء الحكم الصادر ضد كاميليا لطفي من محكمة استئناف الإسكندرية، والذي كان قد قضى بإسقاط حضانتها لطفليها ماريو وأندرو وضمهما لأبيهما بعد إشهار إسلامه. وصرحت المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية فى بيان صحفى اليوم الثلاثاء...

New York Times, May 25th 2009 CAIRO — An Egyptian appeals court on Monday overturned a conviction and two-year jail sentence against the democracy advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who has been in self-imposed exile for almost two years. Mr. Ibrahim, who is currently teaching at Harvard, could no...

HOUSTON, May 27 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday handed down 65-year prison sentences to two founders of a U.S. Islamic charity convicted of illegally funneling $12.4 million to the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The sentences came some six months after a grand jury convicted the Holy Land ...

3/16/09, Christian Today An Egyptian lawyer has filed a lawsuit against the country’s Minister of the Interior, in a bid to gain legal acceptance for converts to Islam who decide to convert back to their original Christian faith. According to Civil Law in Egypt, Muslim converts can return to...

CAIRO (Reuters 3/18/09) - A lawyer for a U.S. couple jailed in Egypt in an adoption case said Egypt should pass a law allowing Christian families to adopt, because a legal gap that disallows the practice is pushing them to do so in secret. The lawyer, whose clients are in jail on fraud charges as t...

بحث قانونى ووثائقى بقلم ممدوح نخلة تعريف الاقلية : أية مجموعة بشرية تختلف عن الاغلبية في واحد أو أكثر من المتغيرات التالية: الدين أو اللغة أو الثقافة أو السلالة". وبحسب تعريف الموسوعة البريطانية هم "جماعة من الأفراد يتمايزون عرقيا أو دينيا أو لغويا أو قوميا عن بقية الأفراد في المجتمع ...

ISTANBUL, February 20, 2009 (Compass Direct News) – Egyptian Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud last week granted the mother of 14-year-old twins Andrew and Mario Medhat Ramses the right to appeal a custody decision awarding her sons to their Muslim father. Muslim convert Medhat Rams...

Translated from the original Special Report by: Hekmat Hanna, Copts United A group of Coptic attorneys including Nabil Ghobrial, Saeed Fayez, Osama Mikhael, George Farid, Milad George, Tawfik Iskander, Osama Refaat, George Farouk, and Ashraf Edwar filed a complaint with the Attorney General&rsquo...

تقرير: حكمت حنا – خاص الأقباط متحدون تقدّم عدد من المحامين الأقباط من بينهم نبيل غبريال وسعيد فايز وأسامة ميخائيل وجورج فريد و ميلاد جورج وتوفيق اسكندروأسامة رفعت وجورج فاروق وأشرف إدوار ببلاغ للنائب العام ضد عبد الحليم قنديل رئيس تحرير جريدة صوت الأمة وعنتر عبد اللطيف وسمر الضوي محررين بالجر...

By DAANISH FARUQI, Middle East Times, Published: August 28, 2008 CAIRO -- Earlier this month Egyptian movie director Inas al-Dighaidy came under attack by an attorney affiliated with the ruling National Democratic Party for allegedly defaming Egypt in her film. Dighaidy is the latest vict...