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Egyptian man sentenced to death for attack on Christians
Sunday January 16, 2011 06:56:00 PM,
DPA
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Cairo:
An Egyptian court sentenced a man to death Sunday for a drive-by
shooting of Christians in the southern city of Naga Hammadi last
year which left seven people dead.
Mohamed Hassan, the primary defendant in the case, was sentenced
by a State Security Emergency Criminal court in the southern
province of Qena.
The death sentence will be sent to Egypt's grand mufti, an Islamic
religious authority, for approval.
The sentence will be confirmed by the court Feb 20, when it will
also hand out the sentences of the other two defendants in the
case, Qurshi Abulhagag and Hendawy Mohamed Hassan.
Mohamed Hassan is charged with opening fire on a group of people
as they were leaving a Christmas mass in Naga Hammadi Jan 6, 2010,
the night of Coptic Christmas eve.
The attack left six Christian teenagers and a Muslim security
official dead.
The trial began Feb 13 and was postponed numerous times throughout
the year, angering the Christian community which was demanding a
conviction.
Official figures estimate Christians comprise between 10 and 15
percent of Egypt's population.
Tensions have been high in the country since a New Year's Eve
bombing at a church in the coastal city of Alexandria left 23
people dead and over 100 injured.
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