WATANI International
8 July 2011
The recently announced list of government appointments for the heads of 111 towns and villages in Egypt included only one Copt; Albert Alfonse was appointed head of the South Hurghada district on the Red Sea coast.
Naguib Gabrail, head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights, sent an angry note of protest to the minister of local development, Major General Mohsen al-Numani, in which he stressed that the Coptic share in these posts amounted to less than 1 per cent. “Have efficient Copts become obsolete?” Mr Gabrail queried. “Or are we back to the era of the regular exclusion of Copts from leading posts?”