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Fact-finding Committee: Violence against Copts continues in certain governorates

The fact-finding committee of the 30 June incidents said violence against Copts is still continuing in certain governorates, especially in Luxor, Sohag and Aswan, including kidnapping, preventing them from practicing religion, expelling them from their homes, burning their houses and looting their shops.
 
The committee said in a statement on Tuesday that it met with representatives of the churches in these governorates, representatives from civil society organizations and eyewitnesses with documents and recordings and relayed the incidents to the competent authorities to take action.
 
The committee recently commissioned by the National Council for Human Rights also issued a report blaming the police and protesters for the violence and deaths that followed the dispersal of the Brotherhood sit-ins.
 
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
 

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