A Statement by the European Union of Coptic Organization

to condemn the torture and murder of Coptic Egyptians, and holding them hostage in Muslim Brotherhood prisons

 

The European Union of Coptic Organization condemns the acts of assault and torture towards Coptic Egyptians at the hands of the racist regime of the Muslim Brotherhood, and holding Coptic Egyptians hostage by throwing them in prisons based on false accusations. An example of this is the case of Ms. Soad Akhnokh Salim Botrous, a prisoner in The General Menia Prison, under solitary confinement, which is a threat to her life as she suffers from many illnesses, and taking her as a hostage after falsely accusing her of evangelizing a young woman in El-Wasta Governorate, whom rumors spread about her conversion to Christianity, despite assurances from the young woman’s family that they know exactly where she is, and that she is married to a Muslim man.

 

In line with the same racist policy of the Muslim Brotherhood regime, they also arrested another Coptic citizen by the name Zaki Tawfeek Indaraous, father of a young man by the name of Abram, who was also arrested along with his cousin Peter Baheeg Tawfeek Indaraous, and are held in custody at The Fayoum prison, where they are being mistreated and their lives are threatened.

 

The racism of the Muslim Brotherhood regime has exceeded any other form of racism, evident in the act of taking the father, the mother and the cousin as hostages while sticking them with false accusations about a Muslim woman of a legal age, who may or may not have converted to Christianity. On the contrary, their own criminal practices of kidnapping, raping, and forcing under-age Coptic girls to abandon Christianity, are tolerated and welcomed by all the institutions of the Muslim Brotherhood state with impudence, and a total disregard of human ethical code by this Facist regime.

 

Thus, the European Union of Coptic Organization implores the Egyptian regime to release the hostages from the prisons of Menia and Fayoum, and implores the International Community to forthrightly condemn this racist regime. We will not be silent in the face of this ethical, religious, and racial degradation, and will expose this regime, which contradicts it words by its actions, and we will communicate with the European Parliament as a Union and organizations working towards the freedom of these victims in the prisons of the Muslim Brotherhood.

 

Medhat Kelada, 

President, the European Union of Coptic Organization 

 

Ibrahim Habib, 

Vice President, the European Union of Coptic Organization

 

Magdy Youssef, 

General coordinator of the European Union of Coptic Organization