CAIRO: An Egyptian court Saturday condemned seven people to death for belonging to Daesh (ISIS) and beheading 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in a Libyan beach, judicial officials said.
Daesh in Libya posted a video of the beheadings online in 2015, prompting international condemnation and leading Egypt to carry out airstrikes against the group in the neighboring Arab state.
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Egypt drops charges against men accused of stripping and beating a 70-year-old Christian woman… but prosecute her son for adultery with a Muslim neighbour's wife
Soad Thabet, a Coptic Christian, was attacked in May last year
Muslim villagers dragged her from her home along the dirt roads of Alkarm
Her son was rumoured to have had an affair with a married Muslim woman
Both he and the woman deny the affair but he will be prosecuted
Sectarian violence often erupts after rumours about inter-faith romances
By Sarah Dean For Mailonline and Reuters
Christian woman Soad Thabet, 70, was attacked after her son was rumoured to have had an affair with a married Muslim woman
Three Muslim men accused of stripping a 70-year-old Christian woman naked and beating her in the street in Egypt have had the charges against them dropped.