The Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced seven Copts to death in absentia for insulting Prophet Muhammad, defaming Islam, and harming Egyptian national unity. The capital punishment decision, which must be reviewed, has been approved by the Muftī of the Republic Egypt.   

The pro-Islamist newspaper, al-Misrīyūn, reports that upon the ruling, the prosecutors chanted “Justice has prevailed!” [Shaymā' al-Sayīd, al-Misrīyūn, Jan. 30, p. 11] Read original text in Arabic