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2/23/2011: Egyptian Court Criticized for Acquitting Suspects in Coptic Killing Case - Christian Post PDF Print

By Alison Matheson

http://www.christianpost.com/news/egyptian-court-criticized-for-acquitting-suspects-in-coptic-killing-case-49125/

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom criticized on Tuesday the decision of an Egyptian state security court to acquit two men charged with the murder of six Coptic Christians.
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Last month, a state security court sentenced Mohamed Ahmed Hussein to death for his part in the January 2010 shooting outside a church in the town of Naga Hammadi during which six Coptic Christians and the church’s Muslim security guard were killed.

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