MARIAN KAMEEL ABDO
At the time she went missing, she was preparing to join her husband in the US, and he was sorting out her immigration papers so that she could join him. In late July, the man accused of abducting her posted photographs on social media which appeared to show that he and Marian were a couple. There has been speculation that these images had been manipulated with Photoshop or another similar program. In March 2021, married 21-year- old university student Marian went missing from El-Marg, north-east Cairo Governorate. She was two months pregnant when she disappeared.
There is still a lot of activity regarding Marian on social media, and her family is still lobbying the authorities to take action. At the time of going to press Marian’s case is still ongoing. 50
MAGDA MANSUR IBRAHIM
Three days later, a video was posted on social media in which Magda appeared wearing a hijab, declaring she had converted to Islam six years previously. She stated that she was either engaged or married to a Muslim man ― she was not clear on this point and appeared to give inconsistent information. At the end of the video, Madga asked to be left alone. Her family rejected the claims in the video. 51 Her father said it was unreasonable to believe that a 14-year-old girl had clandestinely converted and had been living On Saturday, October 3, 2020, 20-year-old Magda was abducted as she was travelling from her home in Al-Badari to college in Assiut. Despite her family reporting the case to police, authorities took no action.
as a Muslim for six years in a Christian family. They also pointed to the contradictions in what she said, such as Magda’s remarks about being married. 52 Just under a week later, Magda was returned. The family released no further information about her ordeal. One commentator speculated that the girl’s return appeared to be conditional on the family not speaking to the media anymore, pressing charges, or seeking to Ànd out who had kidnapped her. 53
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