Tag: Hosni Mubarak

HOSNI Mubarak, the former Egyptian president overthrown in an uprising in 2011, will be released from jail soon after a prosecutor cleared him in a corruption case, his lawyer and a judicial source said on Monday.

AFTER torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like "prisoners of war" before a Muslim woman offered them refuge. Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob.

EGYPTIAN Christians hope their views will be considered in the crucial process of rebuilding the country that is slowly returning to normalcy after Mubarak’s ouster due to a popular recent uprising.

THE Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition group, is planning to register as a political party once restrictions imposed on it by the erstwhile Mubarak government were lifted.

US President Barack Obama has urged governments in the Middle East to respond peacefully to peaceful protests in the wake of the anti-government rallies in the region.

THE announcement came even as thousands massed in Cairo and other Egyptian cities for an 18th day of protest to demand Mubarak's resignation.

I am addressing the youth of Egypt today in Tahrir Square and across the country. I am addressing you all from the heart, a father's dialogue with his sons and daughters, Mubarak said in his speech.

Those protests were transformed from a noble and civilised phenomenon of practising freedom of expression to unfortunate clashes, mobilised and controlled by political forces, he said.

INCREASING violence, deteriorating law and order and a big question mark over the future of Egypt after the possible exit of president Hosni Mubarak are concerns that Christians in that country are facing now.

IF the recent violence against Coptic Christians is not contained, it is likely that his government’s stability will be severely undermined.