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  • Christian Convicted for Insulting Islam in Egypt Receives 1 Year of Hard Labor

    06/02/2013 3:14:57 AM PDT · by BarnacleCenturion · 30 replies
    washingtontimes.com ^ | June 1, 2013
    ASSIUT, Egypt — An Egyptian court has convicted a Coptic Christian lawyer in the southern province of Assiut on charges of blasphemy and sentenced him to one year in prison with hard labor. The verdict against Roman Murad Saad was handed down on Saturday. It’s the latest in a surge of blasphemy cases following Egypt’s 2011 uprising. ... 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.