CAIRO: Member of the 50-member committee to amend Egypt’s 2012 constitution Gaber Nassar said that the constitution will be completed on Tuesday or Wednesday after reaching a consensus on its articles by the members of the panel.
Police have arrested 4 people in Minya on charges of burning the Court building of Beni Mazar as well as Maghagha police station.
Dr. Ikram Lamei, head of the Egyptian Evangelical Synod, advocated the Coptic Quota saying that Affirmative Action was applied in Europe after the World War II for the benefit of women who were persecuted then.
A group of masked gunmen kidnapped a young Coptic man yesterday for 50.000 $ ransom. Talat S. Solomon, 27 years old, was kidnapped in Nag Hamady while he was on his way home.
Police in Minya are investigating two ripped bodies of a man and woman found near the Coptic majority in Dri Barsha, Mallawy.
Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, have constituted a standing committee to manage the affairs of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church in between its biannual meetings.
Bishop Rafael, Secretary of the Holy Synod, received a number of Coptic activists yesterday to discuss the amendments of the new constitution and their fears of a religious constitution that discriminates between the Egyptian citizens.
Ministery of Education in Suez is investigating a secondary school teacher for insulting the army in class as well as talking politics.
Security forces in Minya have arrested 5 members of the Muslim Brotherhood on charges of attacking churches and police stations as well as inciting violence in Minya.
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Ezbet Shahin have gathered before the house of a Coptic man accusing him of committing adultery with a Muslim woman, which was denied by the man as well as the woman.
Security forces in Minya have arrested Mohamed A. Ismail, professor at Minya University and belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood, in Samalout on charges of inciting violence after the dispersal of Rabaa Adawia and Nahda sit-ins.
Thugs in Suhag have seized a new piece of land owned by a Coptic Christian man in West Zouk, Suhag at gunpoint threatening to kill him in case he reports the police.
Thugs in Sahel Saleim, Assiut, are still imposing royalties on the Copts ranging from 50 thousand to 100 thousand EGP.
Security forces have arrested 8 new suspects on charges of attacking churches and police stations in Minya.
Thugs in Suhag have seized a piece of land owned by a Coptic Christian man called Emad Rizk in West Zouk, Suhag at gunpoint.
Magda Haroun, head of the Jewish community in Egypt, said that the Jews are the oldest minority in Egypt existing since the prophet Moses, but the 50-members committee to amend the 2012 constitution didn't talk with them about the new amendments in the constitution.
CAIRO: The April 6 Youth Movement issued a letter of apology to Damietta’s Security Director for their demonstration last Thursday, in which two students were arrested, a security source told Youm7.
CAIRO: The Shura Council “represented corruption” and did not have a “clear or assistive role,” said Ahmed Khairy, Assistant Rapporteur of the 50-member committee said on Saturday in an interview with Al-Hayat.
A group that goes by the name “Tomorrow” organized a bicycle demonstration in Egypt’s Suez on Friday evening where tens of girls biked on the Corniche in defiance of sexual harassment.
Tens of Muslim Brotherhood supporters rallied by Egypt's High Court in downtown on Saturday morning to denounce mass arrests that followed the army’s ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
A high profile security source told MENA that 28 Muslim Brotherhood loyalists, who had been involved in assaults on police facilities and instigating violence in four governorates, have recently been arrested.
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Activists take to the streets in downtown Cairo on Wednesday against a new protest law enforced with a string of arrests and the use teargas against crowds a day earlier