Despite the U.S. State Department's own Human Rights Report that outlines human rights abuses in Egypt, along with reports from other human rights groups, U.S. policy seems to be focused on maintaining the status quo. U.S. human rights initiatives, which have been few, have produced very few, if any, positive results. The ICC team traveled to Upper Egypt, despite warnings against visiting the area because of recent terrorist attacks against foreigners. Due to the lack of tourism, every tourist hotel had been closed. This is concern to the government.
Tourism is Egypt's primary source of revenue.
The ICC team traveled to undisclosed locations where they interviewed several Protestant pastors and lay leaders, including a lawyer and some Christian converts. In total, over the past twelve months, ICC has interviewed scores of Egyptian Christians. When all the facts were in, it was clear that the Egyptian government does have a hand in the persecution of Christians. In 1990, three Muslim converts to Christianity were brutally tortured by the police. Just last month, one of the four was detained three times by the Egyptian authorities as he and his family sought to leave Egypt for England.