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(JTA) A Chabad center in Lexington, Kentucky, will see increased police presence for the rest of Chanukah after an assault during one of the community’s public menorah lightings.
A driver directed anti-Semitic language at people lighting the menorah outside Chabad of the Bluegrass, police told the local TV station. When someone from the community tried to urge the driver away, the driver accelerated, dragging the community member and running over his leg, according to a detailed acco. For access to this article please sign in or subscribe.
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Coptic Christians in Egypt Say They Can’t Get Justice Mina Nader 12/23/2020
An Egyptian court has acquitted three Muslim men accused of assaulting a Coptic Christian grandmother, in a case that has highlighted the sectarian tensions in the country.
Egypt’s Christian community is frustrated and angry after an Egyptian court acquitted three Muslim men in an assault on an elderly grandmother, in a case illustrating the sectarian tensions in the country that has dragged on for several years.
The court in Minya-Upper Egypt handed down its decision last week in the 2016 assault, which included the stripping naked of then-70-year-old Suad Thabet and the burning down of her home, and four other homes, as well as the injury of three other Copts.
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Nicosia [Cyprus], December 21 (ANI): The President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the ruler of the most populous Arab country, in his seven-year iron rule has been violating almost all human rights of the relevant Universal Declaration, but so far has been treated scandalously gently by the United States and the European Union.
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