CAIRO: An Egyptian court Saturday condemned seven people to death for belonging to Daesh (ISIS) and beheading 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in a Libyan beach, judicial officials said.

Daesh in Libya posted a video of the beheadings online in 2015, prompting international condemnation and leading Egypt to carry out airstrikes against the group in the neighboring Arab state.

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Egypt drops charges against men accused of stripping and beating a 70-year-old Christian woman… but prosecute her son for adultery with a Muslim neighbour's wife 

  • Soad Thabet, a Coptic Christian, was attacked in May last year 

  • Muslim villagers dragged her from her home along the dirt roads of Alkarm

  • Her son was rumoured to have had an affair with a married Muslim woman

  • Both he and the woman deny the affair but he will be prosecuted

  • Sectarian violence often erupts after rumours about inter-faith romances

By Sarah Dean For Mailonline and Reuters

Christian woman Soad Thabet, 70, was attacked after her son was rumoured to have had an affair with a married Muslim woman
 
 
 
A damaged home belonging to one of seven Christian families, whose houses were looted and set on fire by Muslim men during the attack on Mrs Thabet, is seen at Al-Karm village in May last year  

Christian woman Soad Thabet, 70, was attacked after her son was rumoured to have had an affair with a married Muslim woman

Three Muslim men accused of stripping a 70-year-old Christian woman naked and beating her in the street in Egypt have had the charges against them dropped.

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