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Egypt jails Copt for 6 years over Facebook post insulting Muhammad
Islamist protesters denounce sentence as too lenient
CAIRO (AP)
— A court in southern
Egypt has sentenced a Coptic Christian teacher to six years in prison
for posting on his Facebook page drawings that it ruled insulted Islam’s
Prophet Muhammad and comments deemed an affront to the country’s
president.
The state news agency said the court decision
Tuesday in Sohag province also finds Beshoi el-Behiri guilty of
insulting the plaintiff.
The court case predates the public anger that
was triggered by an amateur movie produced by a Copt living in the
United States that ridicules Muhammad as a womanizer, child molester and
buffoon. But sensitivities over the film have clearly hiked the tension
around the court.
The agency said scores of Islamists protesting
outside the courtroom denounced the sentence as meager. El-Behiri had
denied the charges, filed late July.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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