Photographs of the men lynched in Mahallat Ziyad have been circulating on social media websites.

BBC: Egyptian villagers lynch two men

So, for now, no one dares criticise Mr Blair too sharply, lest they too are lynched.

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Hundreds of villagers in Egypt have lynched two men for allegedly kidnapping two children and other violent crimes.

BBC: Egyptian villagers lynch two men

He also lost credibility last summer by claiming that a black Mississippi boy had been lynched for dating white girls, when forensic experts concluded that the boy had committed suicide.

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Gypsies were often enslaved and lynched with impunity.

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The famous Mississippi Burning incident where three civil rights workers were lynched in 1964 involved the murder of one black civil rights worker James Earl Chaney and two Jewish civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwermer.

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"We have to do a lot of work with their communities so that they are able to return without being lynched or subjected to reaccusation, for example if a cow jumps over a fence and knocks down something, " says Adwoa Kwateng-Kluvitse, ActionAid's country director in Ghana.

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