Teen Girls Defend Christian Faith - End Up In Jail For 'Inciting Religious Violence'.
More than 11,000 people have been detained in Ethiopia in recent months. Â Five hundred people have died in violent anti-government protests in the last year.
And now four more people have been sentenced to serve time in jail, on the serious charge of "inciting religious violence." These allegedly violent criminals are four Christian girls, called Eden, Gifti, Mihiret and Deborah. Eden is 15 years old. Gifti and Mihiret are just 14. Deborah is 18.
Their crime appears to have been trying to distribute some Christian literature "to counter widely-circulated polemics by a well-known Islamic critic", World Watch Monitor reports....
Paul Fountain | 1/30/2009
