Egypt: Prosecutors seek ‘maximum penalty’ of death for Christian convert, for ‘contempt of Islam’

In April, Coptic Solidarity raised an “urgent alarm” in the case of Said Mansour Rezk Abdelrazek. He had already spent “months of detention and interrogation by Egypt’s State Security Prosecution.” You can read more about it here: Egypt: Muslim converts to Christianity, faces trial before terrorism court.

Now prosecutors are seeking the maximum penalty — death — or 25 years in jail. In Islam, the death penalty for apostasy still remains. Egypt, remember, was a 95% Christian country until it was conquered for Islam via bloody jihad.

“They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)

A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57).

Said Mansour Rezk Abdelrazek is also falsely accused of joining a banned terrorist organization, the very accusation that allowed the Egyptian prosecutors to seek the maximum penalty. Pakistan also lies about Christians and frequently falsely accuses them of blasphemy. State persecution is very much alive.

Hatred of Christians and other minorities, and violations of their religious rights, is acceptable and normalized in Islam. To call out the incalculable human suffering under Islam is now taboo in the West, which demonstrates just how far the West has strayed from supporting human rights and equal rights for all.

“Egyptian prosecutors seek ‘maximum penalty’ for Christian convert for contempt of Islam,” by Danielle Greyman-Kennard, Jerusalem Post, November 4, 2026:

Egyptian prosecutors are pursuing the “maximum penalty,” either execution or 25 years in prison, for Christian convert Said Mansour Rezk Abdelrazek, his lawyers announced in a statement on Tuesday following a hearing in his case.

Abdelrazek, who converted from Islam, was arrested in July 2025 and has been detained by Egyptian authorities since then on undisclosed charges. He was previously arrested in 2023 for allegedly posting videos depicting the desecration of the Quran, for which he served a year-long prison sentence.

Following his release, he fled to Russia, but was deported after his asylum application was rejected. He was detained again in 2024 and released shortly afterward. In April 2025, he was rearrested after beginning to publish social media content about his conversion and efforts to have his religious status legally changed.

Prosecuted for his refusal to ‘renounce Jesus’

According to the NGO Coptic Solidarity, Abdelrazek was charged with contempt for Islam, inciting public disorder, disseminating false information, and joining a banned terrorist organization, an accusation that carries the possibility of the death penalty…..