CAIRO: Two Christian brothers convicted of killing a Muslim Bedouin in Upper Egypt last year, were arrested and imprisoned in Wadi El-Natroun Prison on Sunday despite a court ruling that had ordered their release on bail.
In a land dispute involving the Abo Fana Monastery in May 2008, monks clashed with Bedouins in Minya governorate, 380 km South of Cairo, in May 2007 leaving one Muslim dead and seven monks wounded.
Zakari Kamal, lawyer of defendants Refaat and Ibrahim Fawzi, called upon Pope Shenouda and President Hosni Mubarak to intervene in order to implement the court ruling which was issued on Jan. 15 and later reaffirmed on Jan. 29 this year.
Kamal contested the interior ministry’s decision to arrest the defendants after they were released. He told Daily News Egypt that they were arrested again as they were being transferred from a prison in El-Wadi El-Gedid governorate to a police station in Minya to process release papers.
Kamal is scheduled to meet Pope Shenouda this Wednesday to discuss the necessary steps to ensure the release of the prisoners as soon as possible.
