ICC Note: A Christian minor girl in Egypt was abducted at the beginning of the new year and has not yet been retrieved. As with most of these cases, families believe that she has been kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam. The police have done little in regards to helping the devastated family. It is the same story we hear every few weeks out of Egypt.

02/03/2017 Egypt (PCP): Christian girl, Rania, disappears in alleged kidnapping: The disappearance of a minor girl from her Christian family usually turns out to be an incident of kidnapping and forced conversion to Islam. One week into this year, a 17 year-old girl, Rania Eed Fawzy, was found missing from her family home in the village of Al Kiati in the Al Minea province of Upper Egypt. Family members of the missing girl filed a complaint with the local police that a Muslim male named Rabee Radi Naghi had taken their daughter against her will.

Their family attorney contacted the Egyptian Attorney General, Nabil Ahmed Sadek, in Cairo with a request to remove Rania from hiding and deliver her to one of the Christian Orthodox homeless youth shelters. Attorney General Sadek refused the request, and the local district Attorney’s office refuses to disclose the hidden location of the girl. (Normally in such cases the local authorities know where the kidnap victim is kept.) Instead, the family attorney received a glib answer from the prosecutor, “the girl embraced Islam, what do you want?”

It is important to note that a child in Egypt is considered a minor until age 21. Until of age, conversion from one religion to another is illegal. However, in such kidnapping cases the authorities always settle the issue by accepting the minor Christian girl’s “conversion” to Islam; however, never the other way around. In conversion from Islam to Christianity complaints police go above and beyond their role to retrieve the girl and warn her of death from apostasy.

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