Violence in Egyptian village following disappearance of Christian woman
September 30, 2014
Iman Sarofim, a 39-year-old Coptic Christian mother of five, has returned to her village after she escaped from the man who had abducted her.
Mohamed Ibrahim Moustafa, the nation’s interior minister, had claimed that she had freely left with a Muslim man and converted to Islam, according to Copts United.
Days before Sarofim’s return, local Copts, angered by the inaction of police, “attacked the [police] station with stones, rocks and Molotov bombs, damaging two police trucks and injuring three policemen,” according to a report in the Cairo-based Watani.
The police “avenged themselves brutally by breaking furniture, robbing belongings, terrorizing women and children, and leading the men out tied with ropes and pulled through the village streets as though they were beasts of burden,” Watani continued.
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Further information:
- Gabal al-Tir celebrates the return of kidnapped Coptic woman (Copts United)
- In Gabal al-Teir, Minya. Police brutality in answer to Coptic violations (Watani)
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