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New Christian Suffers From Security Police Torture
Five months after he was forcibly committed to a mental hospital
for converting from Islam to Christianity, Gasir Mohammed Mahmoud
has been discharged from his locked psychiatric ward in Cairo and set
free. Mahmoud was released June 9 from Cairo's El-Khanka Hospital for
Mental and Neurological Health, where two police officers from his home
city of Suez had institutionalized him last January. Adopted as an infant,
Mahmoud was raised by [a] Muslim couple, who were alarmed last December
to learn that he had converted to Christianity two years earlier. But his father's
angry appeal to local Muslim sheikhs prompted them to issue death threats
against the son for committing apostasy. Initially, Mahmoud said, he was
questioned "in a decent way" in front of a state security officer named
Mohammed Amar.
He was then transferred to another official who brought two Muslim
sheikhs to talk with him, trying to convince him to return to Islam.
After eight days' detention, eating only food that other detainees
shared with him, he was sent to the Suez Security Directorate
for an investigation that lasted four days. Mahmoud¹s supervising
physician, Dr. Nevine, had told him he would never be allowed to
leave the hospital unless he came back to Islam.
But a round of international publicity released in May focused
considerable attention on the case, apparently convincing hospital
authorities to discharge him. Although Mahmoud¹s mother reserved
a hotel room for him in Cairo after his release, he has since found
other lodging through Christian friends in the city. Egyptian law
forbids Muslims the right to change their official religious identity
when they become Christians, although non-Muslims can freely
convert to Islam and legally change their I.D. cards from Christian
to Muslim.
Under the virtual impunity of emergency law regulations, officers
of Egypt's State Security Investigation regularly harass, interrogate
and arrest Muslim citizens suspected to have converted to Christianity.
(Egypt - Tuesday June 21, 2005, Compass International)
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