UN hears of Copts' deaths

Geneva - Religious rights activists yesterday denounced the killing of Christian Copts in southern Egypt in January before the…

Geneva - Religious rights activists yesterday denounced the killing of Christian Copts in southern Egypt in January before the UN Human Rights Commission.

"The massacre of 21 Copts in Al Khosheh . . . is the 40th massacre and massive attack on Copts in Egypt over the past 30 years," Mr David Littman, of the Association for World Education, told the panel, quoting the Cairo-based Ibn Khaldun Centre for Development Studies.

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