Cairo — The beheading of a group of Coptic Egyptians by Libyan militants is a "vile crime targeting people on the basis of their religion," said the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Tuesday.
Twenty Coptic Egyptians were abducted in the Libyan city of Sirte on two separate occasions in December and January, only one week apart. They were beheaded in a video released late Sunday, by a militant group believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq titled "a message signed with blood to the nation of the cross."
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