News Coptic Lawyer Sentenced to a Year in Egyptian Prison...

Coptic Lawyer Sentenced to a Year in Egyptian Prison for “Insulting Islam”

By

-

June 3, 2013

226

Saad was sentenced in absentia. If he’s arrested or surrenders to authorities, he will be given a retrial and will have to pay 10,000 Egyptians pounds (around $1,400) in fines.

Court officials say Saad was found guilty of ridiculing Islam’s holy book, the Quran, at a lawyers’ union library. No further details were immediately available in the case.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.

Previous articleSwedish Court is First in Europe to Charge Blackmail in Sinai Case

Next articleTONY BLAIR: The Ideology Behind Lee Rigby’s Murder Is Profound and Dangerous. Why Don’t We Admit It?

LEAVE A REPLY Cancel reply

Advanced Search & Filter

Date Range

Categories

RSS Feed from WWMonitor

Egypt: Copt and son killed in IS attack September 7, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesPrayers in Deir El-Garnouse Coptic church, near Al-Minya in Upper Egypt, after Islamic State opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts, killing at least 28 people in May 2017. A Christian father and son were killed by suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on 30 August. The two Copts, Salama […]
Egypt: Father and son stabbed in latest attack on Copts August 12, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesCopts in Egypt have been targeted in a string of attacks this year. An elderly Coptic Christian and his son who run an off-license shop in Giza, central Egypt, were hospitalized after they were severely injured in an attack. Joseph Israel, 70, was sitting outside his shop in the Omrania district in […]
Egypt: Copt stabbed seven times by neighbour who’d lured in his son March 24, 2022
An Egyptian Christian was stabbed multiple times when he tried to rescue his son who was held against his will by a Muslim neighbour in Alexandria. On the night of 15 February, Magdy Fathy Shehata Awad Allah, deacon at the Coptic Orthodox Church in the northeast of Alexandria and a human rights activist, was rushed […]
Egypt: Coptic Christian imprisoned for 5 years for ‘blasphemy’ February 9, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesA police man enters a prison on the outskirts of Egypt’s capital Cairo. A Coptic Christian has been sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, or EIPR, which represented him during his trial. On 29 January the Cairo Economic Court found Marco Gerges […]

Archives

You might also likeRELATED
Recommended to you

Saad was sentenced in absentia. If he’s arrested or surrenders to authorities, he will be given a retrial and will have to pay 10,000 Egyptians pounds (around $1,400) in fines.

Court officials say Saad was found guilty of ridiculing Islam’s holy book, the Quran, at a lawyers’ union library. No further details were immediately available in the case.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.