[Coptic Christians demonstrate Monday, June 18, 2001. Read photo caption below].

CAIRO, June 20 (AFP) -
Forty police and thirty demonstrators were lightly injured 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 the graphic story about a defrocked monk's alleged sexual affairs in a monastery.

Those injured in Wednesday's clashes were taken to the Al-Demerdash hospital, only a few hundred metres (yards) from the cathedral.

Six policemen were hurt Sunday night when a demonstration by thousands of Coptic Christians in Cairo turned violent
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PHOTO CAPTION

Coptic Christians demonstrate Monday, June 18, 2001, outside the Cairo cathedral, headquarters of the Coptic Christian church, in Cairo, Egypt. Copts are angry about a newspaper's publication of photos purportedly taken from videotape of an ex-monk having sex with women inside a monastery at a holy site in the southern Egyptian city of Assiut. (AP Photo/str)
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