THE CANADIAN COPTIC ASSOCIATION

In Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa

Peaceful Demonstration

On Parliament Hill and in front of the Egyptian Embassy

Saturday, July 14, 2001

Starts on Parliament Hill at 12:30 pm.

In Ottawa:

A free ride on a bus will take place from Gloucester shopping center in front of Loblaws on Ogilvie Road to Parliament Hill then to the Egyptian Embassy. Let us be inside the bus by 12:00 on July 14, 2001.

WHY ARE WE PROTESTING?

1.      We ask for immediate justice for the 21 martyrs in El-Kosheh; 94 Muslim criminals were arrested and not one was punished for killing the 21 Christians in El-Kosheh.

2.      We demand freedom to build churches and renovate them, without the need to apply for Presidential Decree!

3.      We demand the immediate release of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim and the 27 members staff of Ibn-Khaldon institute who accused the Egyptian Government of discriminating against Christians in Egypt and of other corruption.

4.      We demand that the Christians in Egypt be given the proper representation in the Egyptian parliament, the Egyptian cabinet and to be given equal opportunity for key positions in government, universities and all aspects of life in Egypt.

5.      We demand an immediate halt to the verbal attacks on Christians and Christianity by Muslim clerics after Friday prayers in the mosques, on TV and all median controlled by the Egyptian Government.

6.      We condemn the sacrilegious attack on the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt by the Egyptian weekly news publication Al-Nabaa, the attack on one of the holiest sites in Christendom where the Holy Family visited and stayed 2000 years ago. We demand swift punishment of the editor of the newspaper and his staff.

7.      We demand explanations from President Hosni Mubarak to why he is keeping blind eyes and deaf ears to the cries of the Christians in Egypt asking for equal treatment as the Egyptian Muslims and secession of systematic persecution, and denial of their Human Rights.

THE COPTS HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH