On 18 December, Egypt’s Public Prosecutor Hamada al-Sawy instructed his legal office to look into contesting the Appeals Court ruling 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. He said the legal office should do so once Minya Criminal … Continue reading Public prosecutor looks to appeal acquittal of men charged with stripping elderly Coptic woman in al-Karm