Thursday, February 19, 2015

Egypt jails student over Facebook atheism page...

An Egyptian court has sentenced a student to one year in jail for insulting Islam and promoting atheism on a Facebook page, his lawyer and judicial sources said Wednesday.

It is the second such ruling in Egypt since January when another 21-year-old was jailed for three years for declaring on Facebook that he is an atheist.

Judicial sources said that Sharif Gaber "was sentenced to one-year in prison for insulting Islam and promoting atheism, but could be freed on a bail of 1,000 pounds ($130, 117 euros) until his appeal trial".

The sentence was handed down on Monday by a criminal court in the northeastern city of Ismailiya, where Gaber studies literature at university.

Human rights lawyer Ahmed Abdel Nabi, who is following the case, said Gaber was arrested in October 2013 after a complaint lodged against him by the head of the university. Full story...

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