A court case calling on the head of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church, Pope Shenouda III, to release Camilia Shehata and other Christian-Muslim converts was delayed today. The case will be judged on June 28, 2011. The Islamic Bar association filed a lawsuit asking for the release of Shehata, Wafaa Kostantine and other Muslim women who converted from Christianity whom they claim are being held against their will in Egyptian churches. A similar lawsuit was filed by lawyer Tarek Abu Bakr and other lawyers. Shehata has caused controversy since last summer, when she disappeared from her home for a few days. The Christian community first said she had been kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam, then later said she had never converted. Some Muslim groups say Shehata converted of her own free will and has been detained in a Christian church since her conversion. The case is still unclear. In May, a woman named ‘Abeer' claimed she was being held against her will and is now accused of inciting the deadly sectarian violence which killed 15 and left a church in ashes in a poverty-stricken Cairo neighborhood last month.
