Egyptian authorities have arrested eight people following clashes that erupted on Wednesday evening between Muslims and Coptic Christians in the Minya governorate, reported local and foreign media on Thursday.
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Places of worship for Egyptian Copts closed after protests
More disturbing episodes of intimidation against Coptic Christians took place this month in the village of Manshiyet Zaafarana in Minya governorate, 240 kilometers (150 miles) south of Cairo.
Read More »Public Prosecutor charges police officer with murder of two Copts in Minya
A police officer has been charged with the murder of two Coptic Christian men who were killed in Upper Egypt’s Minya Governorate last week.
Read More »‘Minya-stan’: Egypt’s Copts fear attacks by militants and security forces
In front of the house of Emad Sadiq, hundreds of mourners gathered on the way to the Coptic cemetery. The screams of women could be heard a kilometre away, while the lines of men extended for metres.
Read More »Police guard shoots two Copts in Minya
Police have arrested police guard Rabea Mustafa Khalefa over charges of killing two Orthodox Copts in front of the Church of Nahdet al-Qadasa on Wednesday in al-Serafa Street in Minya.
Read More »Hundreds of Egyptian Christians protest police killing
Hundreds of Coptic Christians on Thursday attended the burial of a father and his son who were killed by a police officer in Egypt’s Minya province, amid cries for the state to provide more protection, reports Reuters.
Read More »Another two involved in Minya attack killed: police
Egypt’s Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday in an official statement, that two other members who were involved in the Minya attack were killed. The Minya attack, previously resulted in the death of seven Egyptian Coptic Christian citizens, in the south of Cairo, early November.
Read More »12 militants killed in Western Desert police crackdown
Twelve militants were killed, two police-guiding Bedouins shot dead, and four others injured in clashes between Sinai extremists and security forces on the Dashlout-Farafra road. The battle took place 80 kilometers deep into the Western Desert, on the border of the Minya and Assiut governorates.
Read More »Ex-Egyptian justice minister reportedly arrested
Egypt’s security forces have arrested the former justice minister, Ahmed Suleiman, local former judges told Reuters on Wednesday.
Read More »Minya security forces hunt monastery bus gunmen
Minya Security forces have intensified their deployment near the road leading to Saint Samuel Monastery, after gunmen attacked bus passengers on their way to the site on Friday, killing seven and injuring 19.
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