ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A young Christian man in Upper Egypt accused of blaspheming Islam for “liking” a Facebook page was sentenced Tuesday (June 24) to six years in prison, shocking the Coptic community and other Facebook users. Judge Hazim Hany of Armant Criminal Court found Kerolos Shouky Attallah, 29, of Al-Mahamid village near […]
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Copt Convicted of ‘Blasphemy’ in Egypt for ‘Liking’ Facebook Page
Severity of sentence shocks Christian community, free speech advocates.
June 25, 2014 By - 3 Comments
Noted Convert in Egypt, Formerly Known as Hegazy, Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
Bishoy Armia Boulous convicted for photographing unrest.
June 19, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A judge in Egypt yesterday sentenced Bishoy Armia Boulous – formerly Mohammed Hegazy, the first Egyptian to try to legally change his religious identity on his official ID – to five years in prison, his attorney said. The 31-year-old Christian received the prison term and a fine of 500 Egyptian […]
Coptic Teacher Loses Appeal, Sentenced to Prison in Egypt for ‘Blasphemy’
Falsely accused woman likely to remain in permanent exile, advocates say.
June 17, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A Coptic woman has lost her appeal of what human rights activists call a false conviction for blaspheming Islam and has been sentenced to six months in an Egytian prison. The appellate court ruling, handed down on Sunday (June 15), shocked the Christian woman, 25-year-old Demyana Abd al-Nour, her family […]
Commitment to Egypt’s New Constitution Questioned after ‘Blasphemy’ Charge
Christian on trial for ‘liking’ Facebook page run by converts from Islam.
June 10, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Charges of “blasphemy” against a Christian in Egypt for “liking” a Facebook page run by converts from Islam call into question the government’s commitment to a new constitution guaranteeing freedom of belief and thought, rights activists said. Kerolos Shouky Attallah, of Al-Mahamid village near Luxor, is accused of violating Article […]
Lawyers Press for ‘Insanity Defense’ in Killing of Christian Woman in Egypt
Attorneys undeterred by psychiatric evaluation saying confessed killer is mentally fit.
May 26, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Lawyers for a Muslim accused of stabbing a Coptic woman to death in Egypt are persisting with a claim of innocence by reason of insanity, in spite of a psychiatric evaluation that found he was fit to stand trial. Confirming fears of human rights activists who said attorneys for Mahmoud […]
Christian Teacher in Exile Awaiting Appeal of Her ‘Blasphemy’ Case in Egypt
False accusations in climate of hostility drive young woman to France.
May 2, 2014 By - 1 Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – One year after Muslim extremists in Egypt accused her of committing blasphemy during class, a Christian teacher who suspected she would not get a fair trial remains trapped in exile. Demyana Abd Al-Nour, 25, a first-year social studies teacher at Sheikh Sultan Primary School in a village in Upper Egypt, fled […]
Three Egyptian Cousins Go to Libya; None Comes Back Alive
Once viewed as a center of opportunity, Benghazi now seen as danger zone.
April 24, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – The youngest cousin was carried back home in an ambulance, half dead with a bullet lodged in his skull. The next came back to the village just a month after he left, to be buried in a Coptic cemetery. Another cousin disappeared in 2012; he is thought to have been […]
Christians Killed in Egypt Reflect Growing Hatred in Segments of Society
Coptic teacher in Minya Province, woman in Cairo latest victims of vitriol.
April 12, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A Coptic Christian teacher in Egypt allegedly shot by the teenage brother of one of his students has died, human rights activists said yesterday. Ashraf Alahm Atef Hanna, an English teacher at Marzouk Prep School in the village of Marzouk in Minya Province, succumbed to injuries from the shooting on […]
Egyptian Christian Succumbs to Head Injury after Attack by Suspected Extremists in Libya
Young immigrant worker latest casualty of anti-Copt hostility in Libya.
March 19, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – An Egyptian Christian shot in the head by a suspected Islamic extremist in Libya on March 2 has succumbed to his injuries, family members said. Salama Fawzy Tobia died very early in the morning on Saturday (March 15) in El Raey El Saleh Hospital in Samalut, Minya Province with […]
Egyptian Christian Shot in Libya Near Death
Second attack by suspected Islamic extremists in one week leaves Copt unconscious.
March 10, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – The family of an Egyptian Christian shot in Libya on March 2 says he remains close to death in a hospital in Egypt. The shooting of Salama Fawzy Tobia, 23, in Benghazi, Libya came a week after suspected Islamic extremists killed seven other Egyptian Christians in the Libyan capital. Tobia […]