World Watch Monitor
Two Coptic Christians in a village in Minya, Upper Egypt faced charges of inciting sectarian strife and insulting Islamic leaders in early September.
Comments from one of the men on social media, shared by the other, caused some Muslims in their village to riot. Bassem Abdel-Malak Fahim, 25, from the village of Ezbat El-Sheikh Nageim, first posted the comments on Facebook in the wake of the Minya bus attack in May, when 28 Copts were killed.
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The day after the attack, Fahim shared photographs of some well-known Islamic leaders and accused them of inciting people to attack Christians. He also criticised the Egyptian Government and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for targeting Islamic extremists in Libya, but failing to control those within Egypt’s borders. Fahim deleted the post the next day, but not before it had been shared by one of his friends, and three months after the incident, the offence was taken.
