Thursday, October 19, 2006
This man converted to Christianity from Islam and was therefore thrown in jail by Egyptian State Security. 
He needs attention and help. The Sandmonkey has the story, here: Thrown in jail for converting to christianity. This is from one of the stories he links to: Egypt Jails Muslim Sheikh for Converting to Christianity
Egypt’s secret police transferred Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad, 57, to the Wadi el-Natroun Prison last month. He was told he would remain there indefinitely unless he agreed to work as a government informer against other converts to Christianity.
According to the prisoner’s Cairo attorney, Athanasius William, his client remains incarcerated in this desert prison “only because he has chosen a different belief, to be a Christian.”
El-Akkad was imprisoned without charges for more than a year after officials of the State Security Investigation (SSI) arrested him in Cairo on April 6, 2005...
