Amnesty International slammed the government on Wednesday for failing to protect Coptic Christians, the largest religious minority in the country.

Assertions by Wasat Party leader Abul-Ela Madi on Tuesday that parts of the Egyptian intelligence apparatus were engaged in activities aimed at destabilising the administration of President Mohamed Morsi have prompted controversy.

The Islamic preachers’ syndicates at Al-Azhar has denounced attacks on mosques during clashes at the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters and condemned the use of houses of worship during political disputes.

The board of directors of a community-funded religious centre in Cairo's Moqattam district – located near the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters – issued a statement on Monday confirming that "members of the Islamist current" had taken control of the mosque during Friday's bloody clashes between protesters and Muslim Brotherhood supporters.

Freedom and Justice Party Secretary General Mahmoud Hussein denied reports circulated on Monday that the Muslim Brotherhood was on a state of high alert ahead of new presidential decrees expected to be issued within hours.

A Muslim man was sentenced to death in Egypt on Monday for killing two people in a dispute with Christians in a southern town, state media said, in a case that underlines sectarian tensions in the country.

Even though the Muslim Brotherhood did not field any candidates in the Journalists Syndicate elections last week, the results have still been perceived as a blow to the ruling group.

The Al-Zawya Al-Hamra Misdemeanor Court in Cairo sentenced satellite television host and Islamist preacher Abdullah Badr to six months in prison on Tuesday for insulting media professional Amr al-Leithy and his father.

Several media figures were reportedly assaulted by Islamist protesters at the Media Production City (MPC) in Sixth October City on Sunday.

In 6 October City, a new sprawl of malls and mansions just west of the capital, locals say there is only one shop that sells alcohol. Its name is Bazaar al-Gamaa, and if you ask its owner, Abu Ramez, nicely, he will fetch you a bottle of vodka from the storeroom. In the fridges opposite the till, there are crates of local lagers: Sakara, Meister, Rex – and Stella, an award-winning Egyptian lager unconnected to its Belgian namesake. "That's my favourite," said Ramez, who has been an off-licence owner for 22 years. "Low alcohol percentage. Better for my liver."

Former head of "Asala" Salafi Party, Adel Afifi, called on citizens on Monday to defend themselves and their property in the light of what he described as the weakness of police performance on the streets.

Mohamed al-Gendy, a popular activist, was last seen alive at around 2:30 a.m. January 28, when he said good night to a journalist friend near Cairo’s Tahrir Square and headed home. When Gendy didn’t show up at a planned march the next day, his cellphone switched off, his friends grew alarmed—especially because he had recently received threatening texts, telling him to stop his activism.

April 6 Youth Movement has called for an 'angry day' of protests against President Mohamed Morsi on 6 April.

The Muslim Brotherhood said on Saturday it could have physically bested the 'perpetrators' who beat up members of the Islamic group at its main headquarters, but abstained from such an engagement "for the greater good."

Egypt's prominent Salafist figure and founder of Al-Raya Party Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail said that protesting at the offices of liberal parties and politicians has become "an urgent necessity."

Galal al-Morra, secretary general of the Salafi-oriented Nour Party, called on the National Salvation Front to consider Egypt’s interests and not to politically support “saboteurs and killers.”

Prosecutors ordered both Abdel Rahman and Ahmed Gamal Saber, sons of prominent Salafi leader Gamal Saber, detained for four days pending investigation into multiple charges, including murder.

Upon the conclusion of student elections at Egyptian universities nationwide, the emergence of political forces other than the Muslim Brotherhood represents a fresh addition to the burgeoning student movement.