[PJMedia] Yet another young Coptic Christian girl recently "disappeared" off the streets of Egypt, and yet again the only ones to be punished were the Copts themselves.On Dec. 2, Marna Barsoum ’Aziz, aged about 15, disappeared on her way to a private tutoring lesson. Immediately her family contacted and pled with police to find and retrieve her. When two days had passed with the police displaying nothing but apathy, the Copts of al-’Amoudain village in al-Minya, where the girl hails from, gathered together to stage a protest against both the disappearance of yet another Christian girl and the police’s lack of concern. They held signs and chanted "Marna must be returned to us" and "We want our daughter back."
To this, police were quick and zealous to respond. They descended on the village, and, according to eyewitnesses from the girl’s family, "in order to disperse the protest, police opened fire on us with tear gas," which prompted "loud screams from the women and a state of panic in the village." Police further arrested and hauled off 22 Coptic protesters during the clash. They were duly accused of "causing sectarian strife" and "illegal resistance of public authorities."