High Representative Catherine Ashton As a citizen of Italy, a member state of the European Union, and founder and president of the human rights organization, Voice of the Copts, I have followed with great interest your latest visit to my native country of Egypt -- particularly your request to free former Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi.
The Egyptian Army may have booted Mohammed Morsi out of office, but the hearts of the Egyptian people are still up for grabs – and both the army and the Muslim Brotherhood are using all means at their disposal to convince 80 million Egyptians that they are better off with either the army or
Reoccurring assaults of sectarian violence prompted 16 Egyptian rights organizations to issue a statement criticizing the government and Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies. Sectarian crimes targeting Christian citizens have escalated since the ousting of President Mohamed Morsi. The NGOs urged security officials for higher protection and intervention during future
A suicide bomber has killed 29 mourners at a funeral in Quetta, Pakistan. Victims of the attack were attending the funeral of a local police officer who was gunned down earlier in the morning according to a Reuters reporter who was present. Provincial Chief Secretary Police Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad confirmed at least
Islamists supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi have deployed a catapult in one of their sit-ins in Cairo as part of preparations for a likely battle with security forces. The catapult appeared in pictures circulated on the internet surrounded with walls of sand bags at Ennahda Square, next to Cairo University. Mursi’s
A drone strike - the sixth such strike in two weeks - has killed at least six people travelling in a convoy in Mareb province, in southeastern Yemen. Four of the dead are believed to be Al Qaeda terrorists, and the remaining two are civilians. Speaking to CNN, an unnamed security official explained
Egyptian military forces have captured over 100 Islamist terrorists in recent days – one third of them from Gaza. All were carrying phony Egyptian identity cards. They were arrested in northern Sinai, near Gaza, with some arrested south of Eilat. The false identity cards were probably produced in Gaza, Egyptian officials said, using machinery
Egypt has emerged as a battlefield between the Hamas and Fatah terror groups in their ongoing struggle for control of the Palestinian Authority, according to a top Palestinian Authority academic. Adnan Abu Amer, writing on the web site AlMonitor, addressed accusations by Hamas that top PA officials collaborated to blacken Hamas' reputation among Egypt's
Egypt's interim president, Adly Mansour, on Wednesday blamed the Muslim Brotherhood for the "failure" of international talks aimed at resolving Egypt's political crisis, Al Jazeera reported. Mansour warned supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi that the government will not make any concessions to them. "The train of the future has left the station,"
On Wednesday, a U.S. federal court named former Libyan Commander Ahmed Abu Khattala as a suspect in the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Investigations led following the attack on September 11th, 2012 of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya killing four Americans including Ambassador Chris
