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Five arrested over Shia murders in Egypt
[Al Ahram] Five people have been locked away
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
for their alleged involvement in a mob attack on Shia Moslems in Egypt's Giza governorate.

Four Egyptian Shias were killed and several injured in the attack in Zawyat Abu Musalam village on Sunday, an incident which has heightened fears of sectarianism in Egypt.

The mob gathered outside a house where the Shias were sheltering. They then beat them and set the house on fire. The attack was captured on video and went viral on the internet.

Giza prosecutors on Monday ordered the arrest of 15 people implicated in the murders.

The funeral of those killed in the attack took place at Al-Sayeda Nafisa Mosque in Cairo on Monday

Leftist lawyer and former presidential candidate Khaled Ali was among a number of activists who attended the funeral.

The murders have been denounced from across the political and religious spectrum.

Egypt's ultraconservative Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
have been accused of fuelling anti-Shia sentiment which led to the attack.

Egyptian Shia leaders are expected to hold a presser on the murder on Wednesday, said Behaa Anwar, spokesperson of Egypt's Shia community and head of the Misr El-Fatimiya Human Rights Centre.

One of those killed was a local Shia leader, Hassan Shehata, officials said.

Anwar vowed to secure justice for the victims of the "heinous massacre."

There is no official tally of Shia Moslems in Egypt but analysts put the number at between 500,000 and one million.

Posted by: Fred 2013-06-26
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