PRESS RELEASE
For immediate use
9 December 2013
Coptic Orthodox Church UK
Media and Communications Office
Coptic Orthodox Church (Europe)
Media and Communications Office
On 10 December 2013, His Grace Bishop
Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom
will testify at a Congressional Hearing in Washington DC on ‘Human Rights
Abuses in Egypt’ during a Joint Subcommittee Hearing comprised of the Subcommittee
on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations,
and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.
At 9am EST on
10 December, also deemed Human Rights Day, Bishop Angaelos and four other
witnesses, will highlight the severity and frequency of human rights abuses
facing Christians and minority groups in Egypt both pre and post 2011 uprising.
Bishop
Angaelos will also identify the increased persecution of religious minorities
over the past decades as made manifest in process and policy, which has translated
into dealings with citizens on unequal grounds, inevitably resulting in greater
division and marginalisation.
Alongside
Bishop Angaelos, witnesses include:
Zuhdi Jasser, M.D.
Vice Chair, U.S.
Commission on International Religious Freedom
Mr. Samuel Tadros,
Research Fellow, Centre
for Religious Freedom, Hudson Institute
Morad Abou-Sabe,
Ph.D., Professor
Emeritus, Rutgers University
Mr. Tad Stahnke, Director of Policy and Programs, Human Rights First
Mr. Tad Stahnke, Director of Policy and Programs, Human Rights First
*Ends*
Resources:
Live Feed
from Congress available here: http://1.usa.gov/1bRPvqK
House
Committee on Foreign Affairs: http://1.usa.gov/18P78qK
