CAIRO
Shi’ite official spokesman in Egypt, Baha Anwar, has said they would file a lawsuit at international court if the murderers of four Shi’ites were not arrested and brought to justice.
Anwar told a press conference on Wednesday, President Mohamed Morsi should undertake the responsibility of finding the murderers of four Shi'tes within 48 hours.
"Otherwise", Anwar said, "We file an international court case."
A group of around 3,000 hardline Sunni Muslims, who were reportedly angered at the Shi'ites’ recent attempt to promote their creed in a Sunni-majority village, torched houses of Shi'ites in the village of Zawyat Abu Musalam near Giza, some 20 km southwest of central Cairo, on Sunday, killing four, including Egypt’s prominent Shi’ite leader Hassan Shahate, who was jailed twice under former President Hosni Mubarak for “contempt of religion.”
Abu Mussalem is home to roughly 40 Shi'ite families, while there are believed to be around 750,000 Shi'ites out of the country’s 85 million population.
