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EGYPT: SECURITY POLICE TORTURE CHRISTIAN CONVERT WOMAN
Estranged Islamist relatives vow to kill young wife.

ISTANBUL, July 18 (Compass Direct News) – Security police in Alexandria, Egypt have repeatedly tortured a young woman convert to Christianity in custody since Monday (July 16).

Fanatic Islamist relatives of Eman Muhammad el-Sayed, 26, attacked her two days ago while she and her husband were strolling through a local fair in Alexandria. Although police intervened in the street-side fracas, they promptly arrested the victim herself, allegedly to protect her from her Muslim family.

Each day since then, El-Sayed, 26, has been transferred to a security police headquarters in Alexandria, where inside sources confirmed to Compass that she has been subjected to hours of interrogation and severe physical torture.

At 3 p.m. today, Egyptian authorities again sent the young woman back from the local police station where she was arrested to security police custody. Sources in Alexandria confirmed again today that SSI officials at the El-Fraana police headquarters have subjected El-Sayed to severe torture, including electrocution of sensitive parts of her body.

Together with her husband, also a former Muslim who converted to Christianity, El-Sayed was browsing through a fair in Alexandria’s Al-Azareeta district on Monday afternoon (July 16) when she was spotted by her brother and an uncle.

Since their marriage four years earlier, the convert couple had managed to avoid any contact with her family, all members of the fanatic El-Salafiyeen group of Sunni extremists.

El-Sayed’s male relatives immediately grabbed her and began to beat her with their hands, attempting to shove her into a car and vowing to kill her.

But when El-Sayed began screaming loudly, people in the crowd called the police, who interfered in the attack and took her into custody.

Meantime, El-Sayed had called to her husband, urging him, “Go! Escape from here before they catch you!” Her husband managed to flee the scene, escaping from both her angry relatives and police detention.

But his wife was taken under arrest to the nearby Bab-Sharky police station, on the orders of officer Khayree Nasar. Soon afterwards, her family members ringed the police station, demanding that she be turned over to them to be punished for abandoning Islam.

When El-Sayed was searched and found to be carrying Christian identity papers, local police then transferred her to State Security Investigation (SSI) officials in the El-Fraana district of Alexandria.

To intimidate her with the threat of public shame, she also had been forcibly disrobed and photographed naked at the Bab-Sharky police station.

“This is not legal treatment, but it is happening all the time,” said Rasha Noor, an Egyptian convert now living abroad and tracking reports of overt persecution against Christians in her homeland. “The Christians from Muslim background can’t change their identities, so they are always pushed by the authorities to return back to Islam – or else.”

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