FORTY police and thirty demonstrators were slightly hurt on Wednesday night in clashes during a protest by young members of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority outside the Coptic cathedral in Cairo, police said. Coptic youth have been protesting since Sunday over the newspaper publication of a graphic story about a defrocked monk’s alleged sexual affairs in a monastery. The demonstration, involving around 10,000 people, began in the early evening, lasted until 11:00 pm as youths and police clashed in the streets around the cathedral. The Egyptian newspaper editor who published the story will go on trial on Sunday, a judge said. Mamduh Mahran, editor-in-chief of both the Al-Nabaa weekly and Akher Khabar daily newspapers, was released on bail of 10,000 Egyptian pounds ($2,600) on Tuesday. He had been interrogated since Sunday. The state security misdemeanours court will try Mahran for disturbing the peace, publishing scandalous pictures and subject matter which led to the humiliation of a religious group and lit “the fires of civil strife.” – AFP