27 Aug 2009
Egypt arrests 50 protesters who oppose the possible resettling of members of the Bahai sect in a village in the southern province of Sohag.

The demonstrators believed that the government plans to re-house the Bahais in Ezba who were forced to flee from the southern village of Sharoniyah, when four of their houses were set ablaze last April.

However, a security official denied that the people being relocated were Bahais, saying they were people whose homes had collapsed, AFP reported.

The inhabitants of both villages remained skeptical and several dozen furious villagers gathered outside the Ezba municipal offices on Thursday, demanding the names of those being re-housed be published, to ensure that none were Bahais, the official said.

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