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...'Due impartiality lies at the heart of the BBC. All programs and services should be open minded, fair and show a respect for truth? [BBC reports should] contain comprehensive, authoritative and impartial coverage of news and current affairs in the United Kingdom and throughout the world??
More than 100 activists from “Copts Abroad Britain” organized a protest in front of the headquarters of the BBC in London on Friday morning to protest and condemn what they charged was the “biased and distorted way” the BBC has covered the recent murders of Christian Copts in Egypt. Copts were gunned down as they left church services during the Coptic Orthodox Christmas earlier this month. Seven worshippers died and others were injured.
Dr. Ibrahim Habib, the head of the United Copts Organization said this was the first time that Copts had held a demonstration in Britain. He said Copts were furious at the way the BBC had covered the killings, which, he said, “showed a complete lack of objectivity and effectively sided with the Islamist killers of innocent Christian worshippers.”
In a related development, Free Copts and the Coptic Voices Organization in the United States called for a peaceful march and demonstration tomorrow, January 19, in front of United Nations headquarters in New York, to protest the recent violence by Muslims against Christians in Egypt.
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