Date of source: Monday, February 6, 2006
The author says that the death of Ahmad Abu Tālib in December 2005, in Kafr Salāma village, al-Sharqīya Governorate, has turned into a sectarian sedition that ripped through the whole village when Muslim families took to the streets, calling for revenge, and driving Copts out of the village.
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2006
48-year-old Muhammad Hasan Abu Tālib, an employee at the Drinking Water Authority at the Mīnyā al-Qamh Center, al-Sharqīya Governorate, is claimed to have been battered to death in a fierce fight with four Christian neighbors, ‘Alā’, Sāmī, Zakī and Wā’il. Locals fear that the incident could...