***UPDATE***UPDATE***UPDATE***
Last Thursday it was reported that a Christian convert was arrested & tortured by Egyptian police for the crime of: becoming Christian...
Her family demanded that she be returned to them for "appropriate punishment" and today I find the story that the Egyptian authorities did release the woman:
NEWS ALERT Egypt Police Hands Over Christian Convert To "Fanatical Muslim" Family--report
By BosNewsLife News Center
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak under pressure to improve protection of Christian converts and Christian minority.
CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Egyptian police in the city of Alexandria who last week arrested a Christian convert, handed the woman over Monday, July 23, to her fanatical Islamist family, who beat her before driving her away, a well-informed Christian news agency reported.
Compass Direct News quoted eyewitnesses as saying that family members of Shaymaa (Eman) Muhammad al-Sayed, 26, "dragged her screaming from the Bab-Sharky police station where she had been" held in custody.
After "severely beating her" in the Shatby Cemetery behind the police station at 4 p.m. local time, she was then forced into a family microbus and driven away, eyewitnesses reportedly said.
One week ago, on July 16, the same family members openly threatened to kill Al-Sayed for leaving Islam to become a Christian, after spotting her walking through a fair in Alexandria, Compass Direct News added.
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Pertinent Links:
1) NEWS ALERT Egypt Police Hands Over Christian Convert To "Fanatical Muslim" Family--report
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