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Egyptian jailed for Facebook Islam insult
by Samer al-Atrush (AFP) https://www.legal-project.org/1811/egyptian-jailed-for-facebook-islam-insult Excerpt: CAIRO — An Egyptian court sentenced a man to three years in jail with hard labour on Saturday for insulting Islam in postings on Facebook, the official MENA news agency reported. The Cairo court found that Ayman Yusef Mansur "intentionally insulted the dignity of the Islamic religion and attacked it with insults and ridicule on Facebook," the agency reported. The court said his insults were "aimed at the Noble Koran, the true Islamic religion, the Prophet of Islam and his family and Muslims, in a scurrilous manner," the agency reported. Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Blasphemy in the Muslim World receive the latest by email: subscribe to the legal project's free mailing list Note: The content of external articles does not necessarily reflect the views of The Legal Project. |
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