Egyptian court acquits two Christian activists
ICC News
The two Christian activists were falsely accused of defaming Islam and converting a Muslim to Christianity.
Nov 4, 2007 Egypt (Middle East News)- An Egyptian state security court has acquitted two Christian human rights activists detained on charges of defaming Islam, a judicial source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Sunday.
Faltas and Ezzat, members of the Canada-based Middle East Christians Association (MECA), were accused by Egypt 's state security prosecutors of threatening social peace by propagating anti-Islamic material.
The material in question was a book entitled The Persecuted that the association compiled from Egyptian newspaper reports and court cases which involve perceived persecution of Egypt 's Coptic Christian minority.
Initially, they were also accused of converting a Muslim, named as Mohamed Ahmed Hegazy, to Christianity, but this charge was later dropped owing to lack of evidence.
