A man is reflected on the glass which contains a Christian manuscript and a cross at Saint Catherine's monastery, in the Sinai Peninsula, south of Egypt, December 8, 2015.. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dals
CAIRO – 18 December 2020: Egypt's Attorney General Hamada Al-Sawy directed the prosecution to challenge a not-guilty verdict given to three men charged with stripping a 70-year-old Christian woman and dragged her naked through her village in Minya governorate, Upper Egypt.
The Attorney General’s decision issued few hours after people on social media attacked the acquittal verdict which was announced Thursday evening by Minya Criminal Court.
The incident goes back to May 2016 when a group of Muslim people stripped Souad Thabet (70 years) and paraded her naked in Al-Karm village in Abu Qurqas city of Minya after a clash erupted in the village due to rumors of an illegal relationship between a married Muslim woman and Thabet’s son. The defendants also had attacked her husband and torched her house.
In January 2020, the three men were sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia; however, a retrial was held after they appeared before the court, which directed their acquittal of the above-mentioned charges.
Dozens of people went to social media platforms, creating a hashtag #سيده_الكرم (Al-Karm Laday).
Monika Gebriel called for getting her right and asked people to consider her as their mothers.
Meanwhile, Rami Safwat tweeted to apologize to the lady after the issuance of the acquittal, writing another hashtag “Egypt was naked” an indication to the old ladies represent Egypt.
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