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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/death-sentence-over-egypt-shooting.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A court in southern Egypt has convicted and sentenced to death a Muslim man for his part in last year's Christmas drive-by shooting outside a church" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-death-sentence-over-egypt-shooting.jpg" alt="A court in southern Egypt has convicted and sentenced to death a Muslim man for his part in last year's Christmas drive-by shooting outside a church"/></a></p>
<p>A court in southern Egypt has convicted and sentenced to death a Muslim man for his part in last year&#8217;s Christmas drive-by shooting outside a church that left six Christians and a Muslim guard dead.</p>
<p>The court will announce its verdict next month for the other two defendants accused in the attack on January 6, 2010.</p>
<p>The verdict, which cannot be appealed, comes two weeks after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a church in the port city of Alexandria, killing 21 and wounding nearly 100 in the deadliest violence against Christians in more than a decade. A local, al Qaida-inspired group is thought to be behind the attack.</p>
<p>The January 2010 attack in the southern town of Nag Hamadi also took place outside a church as worshippers were leaving after the Coptic Christmas Mass, and is believed to have been in retaliation for accusations of rape against a local Christian man.</p>
<p>The harshness of the sentence is likely to partially appease Egypt&#8217;s Christians, who have been complaining that criminal cases involving Muslims attacking members of their community often languish in the courts.</p>
<p>They also claim that police often turn a blind eye to incidents of discrimination or violence against them.</p>
<p>The government denies any discrimination against the Christians, who make up about 10% of Egypt&#8217;s estimated 80 million people.</p>
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