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Warn moderators| Author : | Topic: An Egyptian blogger gets 4 years for 'insults' to president & Islam | Bottom |
| holly Posts : 495 “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” -. Martin Luther King Jr. |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6385849.stm An Egyptian court has sentenced a blogger to four years' prison for insulting Islam and the president. Abdel Kareem Soliman's trial was the first time that a blogger had been prosecuted in Egypt. He had used his web log to criticise the country's top Islamic institution, al-Azhar university and President Hosni Mubarak, whom he called a dictator. A human rights group called the verdict "very tough" and a "strong message" to Egypt's thousands of bloggers. Soliman, 22, was tried in his native city of Alexandria. He blogs under the name Kareem Amer. A former student at al-Azhar, he called the institution "the university of terrorism" and accused it of suppressing free thought. The university expelled him in 2006 and pressed prosecutors to put him on trial. |
| Riaz A admin Posts : 1266 "The Greatest Battle is within" |
I really must be careful what I say at times..!!!  | ||||||||
| "I cannot confirm nor deny anything I say or type to be truthful in any way, but let Truth prevail." http://www.people-power.net/ |
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