Court in Cairo refused to rule in a case filed by Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy
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The Administrative Court in Cairo refused to rule in a case filed by
Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy, a convert to Christianity who is seeking official
recognition of his conversion from Islam to Christianity, court officials
said yesterday 29th January 2007.
Mohamed Hegazy 24 converted to Christianity when he was 16; he is married
to
a convert from Islam to Christianity, Katrina (Former Muslim name Zainab)
who is now almost 9 months pregnant. They both want their newly born child
to be registered as Christian.
Hegazy who was born into a Muslim family, is banned from changing his name
and his religion on his national ID card as there is no recognized
official
procedure Hegazy could follow to change his religion on his official
papers,
the government refuses to allow citizens to legally change their religious
affiliation in their ID cards from Islam to any other religion but
welcomes
and encourages the change to Islam from other religions, the Egyptian ID
document carry the person's religion.
Hegazy and his pregnant wife have been in hiding since early August 2007
shortly after his conversion became public as he received numerous death
threats, several Muslims scholars: Sheikh Yossef El-Badri a famous Muslim
scholar, Dr Suad Saleh Al-Azhar university, Dr Abdel-Sabour Shaheen,
Al-Azhar University, Sheikh Mohammed Hassan and Sheikh Ibrahim Gad Almoula
both mosque Imams all called for killing Hegazy through the application of
the Islamic Sharia punishment for apostates which means death on the 20th
August 2007. On 20th October Hegazy flat contents were thrown onto the
street and set a light.
In Egypt, it is known that the police take part in harassing and
persecuting
converts from Islam.
The United Copts of Great Britain condemns the biased court ruling and ask
the Egyptian government and its agencies including the Egyptian judiciary
to
show justice and respect for Human Rights of the Christian population of
Egypt and to do it's best to fight infiltration of the government agencies
by Radical Islamists and to bear in mind its duty and responsibility to
treat all its citizens equally.
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