Coptic Christians Persecuted in Egypt |
Among files on arrested converts from Islam, kidnapped Christian girls and beaten monks piling up on the desk of a noted lawyer in Egypt, on top is the case of two boys about to be tried for allegedly showing contempt of Islam.
Attorney
Karam Gabriel said anti-Christian hostilities in the restive country
are getting worse as the two boys are to be tried in a court in Beni
Suef – the same city where a mother and her seven children were
convicted last month for reconverting to Christianity – for showing
"contempt to Islamic religion and insulting the Koran."
The
accusation against Nabil Naji Rizq and Mina Atallah (identified in some
press reports as Mina Nadi Faraj), who were 10 and 9 years old
respectively at the time of their arrest in late September, of insulting
the Koran made headlines throughout the country after a man saw them
playing in rubbish that he claimed included pages from the Koran.
Accusing them of tearing pages of Islam's holy book – a later version of
the story had them allegedly urinating on it – he filed a report that
led to the arrest of the two children. They were released in early
October.
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