On October 24, Maher Abdel-Wahid, Egypt's State Prosecutor...

On October 24, Maher Abdel-Wahid, Egypt's State Prosecutor called for two Muslim Egyptian brothers who killed a Coptic Christian priest to be given the death penalty. The prosecutor said the brothers, sentenced in September to four years' hard labor for shooting Father Aghnatious al-Mahraqi in southern Egypt over a land dispute, were guilty of premeditated murder punishable by death and that the court ruling had disregarded the fact that the crime could have been premeditated because the defendants had been subjected to ill treatment and insults by the priest.