Egypt's active anti-Iraqi stance during the Gulf war reinforced the image of Egypt as a moderate state. This image is partly true. But basic human rights there are violated by the state and by militant Islam. We print some extracts of the testimony of a Coptic Christian leader given at a conference of Christian Solidarity International in London recently.
I have been interrogated several times at all levels by the state security, the police, the secret intelligence services, the attorney general 1972, the public prosecutor 1981, the supreme prosecutor for the state security 1989.
I was also arrested and imprisoned twice and finally forced into exile to this day.
