Egypt: 3 Muslims Acquitted of Allegedly Stripping, Beating 70-Year-Old Christian Grandmother

Michael W. Chapman February 10, 2023 

Three Egyptian Muslim men charged with stripping and beating a Coptic Christian grandmother in the street because her Christian son courted a Muslim woman, were acquitted by a Cairo court on Jan. 9. Now, the woman, 76-year-old Soad Thabet, may face litigation to compensate the men who reportedly attacked her. Thabet was 70 years old when the attack occurred.........."I tried to hide and suppress what occurred, but I could only take the feelings of humiliation and oppression for four days, at which point I decided to return to the local police station and testify about what happened to me before those who had refused to hear me," said the woman. 

The case went to court and became so sensational that Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, met with Thabet and promised that she would receive justice. Since 2016, the cases has gone back and forth between several courts. The decision on Jan 9, 2023 was by the Court of Cassation, the highest appeals court in Egypt. It upheld a previous acquittal of the three accused men......... "All during these years, Thabet and her family received threats and had to relocate from their village, even as the three guilty Muslim men walked freely, heads held high," reported the Gatestone Institute...... "In fact, the witnesses who initially supported the victim were later 'convinced' to alter their testimony and claim in front of the court that, after all, they were not really sure who assaulted the old woman,"..........."rioting Muslims 'burned down a Christian school, paraded three nuns on the streets like 'prisoners of war,' and sexually abused two other female staff even as at least 58 attacks on Christians and their property were reported across Egypt over the last four days. At least two Christians have died in the attacks.'

In another case, in Pakistan, a pregnant Christian woman was stripped, beaten, and forced to march naked in her village. Two Muslim allegedly committed the crime. 

As reported by Christian Today,  Elishba Bibi, 28, "suffered a miscarriage after she was stripped naked and beaten following an argument with her Muslim superiors. This occurred in Sheikhupura, the same district that Asia Bibi, the woman sentenced to death for blasphemy for allegedly insulting the prophet Mohammed, comes from.".............To Read More......