Mohammed Hegazy

Mohammed Beshoy Hegazy (* 1982 ) is an Egyptian citizen who in 1998 converted from Islam to the Christian Coptic Church and officially applied for in August 2007 in Egypt, the registration of his Christian faith in the identity card, to prevent his daughter's registered religion of the father must take.

Life

The name Beshoy he assumed after an Egyptian monk.

Leaving Islam has been the first instance court denied Hegazy. Many people, including representatives of state institutions, have publicly called for his death. To him and his wife several attacks have been perpetrated.

The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gum'a had rejected the secular punishment of formerly belonging converts to Islam in an interview with the " Washington Post" on 21 July 2007. He qualified this position on 25 July 2007 in the Arab press, declaring the worldly punishment for apostasy to be legal.

Hegazy currently hiding with his wife in the background because he has to fear for renouncing Islam for his life.

The prosecutor of the Cairo State Security Agency, Mohammed al - Faisal, then let his lawyers, human rights defenders Dr. Adel Fawzy Faltas and Peter Ezzat arrest.

In the al -Quds al - Arab, he said fatwas of the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gum'a that exclude a secular punishment of Islam formerly belonging converts, are worthless. The public commitment to the conversion of Hegazy, with whom he had ridiculed and denied Islam must be punished in this world by death.

In an interview with the daily newspaper Today Egypt, the Egyptian minister of religious affairs, Mahmoud Zakzouk confirmed the legality of the death penalty for former Islamic converts who make known their change of faith publicly. This is a danger to public order and equated with treason.