On 10 January, Egypt’s Public Prosecutor Hamada al-Sawy contested the Criminal Court ruling of 17 December 2020 which acquitted three men charged with stripping naked an elderly Coptic woman in the village of al-Karm in Minya, some 250km south of Cairo. The Public Prosecutor referred the case to the Court of Cassation, Egypt’s highest court. … Continue reading Public prosecutor appeals acquittal of men charged with stripping elderly Coptic woman in al-Karm