“The life term handed down against the head of state is not an easy thing at all. After this court ruling, we, as a people, have to respect Egyptian justice and respect its decisions now that it brings to shame those who demanded purging it off,” said Dr. Kamīl Siddīq, Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Millī Council.

Priest Yūhannā George of the Cathedral of Resurrection for Coptic Catholics, said the sentence imprisoning the head of state would bring any next president to learn this lesson and observe straightforwardness. [Rajab Ramadān, al-Misrī al-Yawm, June 3, p. 10] Read original text in Arabic