7 Suspects in Attacks on Christians Released

The Assyrian International News Agency is reporting that 7 Muslims who were arrested in the wake of Muslim attacks on Coptic Christians in a town south of Cairo, Egypt, were release just two days later.

The attackers had hurled stones and set fire to several shops, smashed windows of a Coptic church and damaged two cars in the early morning hours Sunday in Isna, about 560 kilometers (350 miles) south of Cairo.

Police detained 15 people suspected of taking part in the attacks. The seven released were believed to be the main suspects, the official from the prosecutors’ office said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

The grounds for the release of the seven, the fate of the remaining detainees or what this meant for the investigation was not immediately clear.