A recent spate of roberies of Coptic jewelry stores is beleived to have been a key source of financing for the Gama Islamiya. Copts who have resisted have been threatened with death. Some have been killed. This is why the case there resonates so powerfully among Copts. Based on dozens of interviews with victims, police ran roughshod over the Christian part of town from the morning the bodies were found last Aug. 15 through to the end of September.
Victims claim that police threatened to rape several women.
They described in chilling detail being subjected to electric prods, of being hung from window grates and in some cases a ceiling fan for hours during questioning. Evidence of rope burns, bruises, and small red scars from the prods were visible on the bodies of more than a dozen victims interviewed by the Globe. Yameen was held for 34 days without any formal charges before he was eventually released. They said things I cannot repeat about the Lord Jesus. A Copt, William Artori, has been convicted of the murder and is sentenced to death.