In Egypt, religious minorities face arbitrary detention for expressing their beliefs

Said Abdelrazek’s life reads like the script of a Netflix series, each season darker than the last. “He grew up in an Islamist family where Christians were despised. An avid reader and curious by nature, he began questioning his religious upbringing and decided to embrace Christianity,” his fiancée, Sophie, who lives in Australia, said Oct. 14. When he publicly revealed his conversion in 2018, his family tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to renounce it before resorting to more forceful measures: “They separated him from his wife and his son Mustafa, confiscated his shop and money, threatened to kill him and notified state security,” she recalled. Read more In Egypt, the arrest of a team of journalists sparks outrage In 2019, Abdelrazek flew to Russia, where he was granted asylum. But one evening, while drunk, he filmed himself...