Egyptian Blogger Appeals Prison Sentence
An AP newswire article by Nadia Abou El-Magd, via The Washington Post, reports that:
Lawyers filed an appeal Monday on behalf of a blogger who was sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egypt's president.More here.
Abdel Kareem Nabil, a former law student at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, used his blog to advocate secularism and criticize conservative Muslims.
He accused Al-Azhar, Egypt's foremost Islamic institute, of encouraging extremism, calling it "the university of terrorism."
One of Nabil's lawyers, Rawda Ahmed, said an appeal was filed Monday and a court hearing was set for March 12.
posted by Fergie @ 2/27/2007 10:08:00 AM
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