Latest in Tag: Beni Suef Highlight
Latest in Tag: Beni Suef

Cabinet condemns Beni Suef attack
An armed attack on a police checkpoint in Beni Suef left five policemen dead and two injured

Five policemen die in attack on checkpoint
The attack also left two policemen injured
One dead outside a polling station in Beni Suef
Mahmoud Sayed was killed in clashes outside a polling station

Karam Saber’s trial pushed to November
Author appealing five-year sentence for insulting religion

NGO documents violence against Copts
ECPSS: August worst month of sectarian violence in modern Egyptian history

Protests at various universities on first day of classes
Students against Coup movement issue a statement promising “the end of putchists at their hands”
Six referred to military court in Salloum
Five others previously wanted for setting fire to military prosecutor’s office captured
Two dead in Beni Suef in demonstration dispersal
Armed forces and Muslim Brotherhood issue conflicting narratives of events in Beni Suef

Former minister of youth arrested
Muslim Brotherhood arrests, detentions and interrogations continue, Beltagi’s son released

Al-Beltagy’s son arrested
Security officials arrest the son of Muslim Brotherhood leader in Beni Suef

13 arrests for sectarian violence in Beni Suef
Civil society organisations call on parties to condemn incitement to violence

Sectarian attacks ensue in Upper Egypt
Bishop of Minya and the Maspero Youth Union reject reconciliation meeting

Sporadic clashes at nationwide marches
Protest clashes leave over a dozen dead, several hundred injured in nationwide protests

Protesters across the nation respond to Tamarod’s calls
Hundreds of thousands take to the streets demanding regime change and calling for early presidential elections

Anti-Morsi protests throughout country
Thousands of people rallied against President Morsi on Friday in several governorates.

Mass resignations at Al-Wasat party
The resignation stated that the party leaders infringed the party’s principles

Eight governorates say ‘No’ to new governors
Protests and sit-ins across the country after Morsi’s appointment of 17 new governors

Looting Egypt: Abu Sir Al-Maleq
The state of looting in Abu Sir Al-Maleq in Beni Suef has reached an alarming level

Beni Suef doctor attacked
The assault resulted in a strike executed by angered doctors

Obsessive-compulsive morality disorder
On Friday, Islamists surrounded the St George church in Beni Suef demanding the return of a 21 year-old Muslim woman whom they alleged was kidnapped and converted last November by the church in order to allow her to marry her Christian boyfriend. Well, it turns out she did run away with her boyfriend—only he wasn’t …

Pope Tawadros: Copts face civil and religious problems
Coptic pope expresses frustration in the face of growing sectarianism

Islamists attack Beni Suef church
Protesters attack a church in Beni Suef after accusing the church of being complicit in the kidnapping of a Muslim girl last year

Development centre condemns subversion of women’s rights
The Cairo Centre for Development and Human Rights urges people in power to stop using women’s rights as a pretext for political gain

Samsung market capitalisation reached $200bn in 2012
The electronic giant’s Benif Suef factory, its first in the Middle East, will open June 2013
CEMEX cement joins new Nile project
River navigation project expected to create 3,500 job, EGP 2.4bn funding from Egyptian and German governments

Energy Ministry: 5500 megawatts to be allocated to private sector
The ministry is expected to charge ten eligible companies with the task of administering the project, with operations in Beni Suef and Dairut to be run as a Build, Operate, Own, Transfer (also known as BOOT) scheme.

Samsung factory gives priority to Beni Suef residents
The company’s factory in Beni Suef is its first in the MENA region

Funeral of Hassan Sha’ban disrupted
Sha’ban died in custody after he was allegedly refused necessary medicines

6 April starts petition to sue prime minister
The youth movement gathers signatures of Beni Suef women in response to Qandil’s ‘offensive’ statements

Protests continue across Egypt
Aside from the two major flashpoints in Cairo and Port Said, large protests, marches have also taken place in Alexandria, Sharqiya, and Damanhour