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Al-Menya Criminal Court resumes the Samallūt train shooter trial on September 13, 2011. 'Āmir 'Ashūr, a police personnel, had randomly got into Samallūt, al-Menya governorate, train and opened fire on the passengers, killing one Copt and injuring six others. Read background texts on AWR (1) Read...
Here is the second episode in a dreadful series of events that appear to have no end in sight. We had thought that the 25 January revolution would open a new chapter in the relations between Muslims and Copts—given their obvious solidarity and sympathy all through the 18-day uprising.
The crisis of Saint John church in al-Qadāmīr, al-Minya, ended on April 8, 2011 after an alternative solutions were proposed, including the construction of a new church to replace a Coptic service building. Copts will be allowed to pray in the old church until works on construction of the new one...
Last Tuesday, a Muslim mob a few thousand strong gathered in front of Mar-Yuhanna (Saint John) church in al-Minya village of al-Qamādīr in Samallūt, some 240km south of Cairo, demanding that the church should be closed. They attacked the church and the Copts’ houses with stones and set on fire...
Al-Dustūr carries a page three headline reading: "Lawyer of Samallūt [Train] Incident Injured: Accused an Extremist, Committed Crime of own Volition."   The text says Ihab Ramzī, the lawyer for those injured in the Samallūt train shooting, announced that the accused,   ‘Amir ‘Ashūr ‘Abd al-Zahir,...
  Last Tuesday, an off-duty Egyptian police officer allegedly shot six Coptic Christians who were travelling on a train in Samallūt, a small town in the southern Egyptian province of Minya. An elderly man died in the attack.   While some government officials have been quoted in various reports as...
This article reports on various sources, all denying that policeman ‘Āmir ‘Āshūr, who allegedly shot dead a Copt and injured five others on a train, had any mental problems. According to Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Mufīd Shihāb this rules out any “sectarian motives behind the...

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