Egypt: Morality Vigilantes Convicted

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/world/middleeast/egypt-morality-vigilantes-convicted.html

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Three Egyptians accused of killing a man while he was walking with his fiancée were sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for forming an Islamist vigilante group to enforce their hard-line ideas, the MENA state news agency reported. The victim, Ahmed Hassan Eid, was stabbed as he walked with his fiancée in the port city of Suez, a bastion of hard-line Islamism. The case stoked fears that extremists emboldened by the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power would try to impose their strict customs on society. In a separate case, Egypt’s public prosecutor referred three Muslims to a criminal court after they were accused of insulting Christianity and desecrating a copy of the Bible.