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CAIRO | Wed Nov 28, 2012 6:46am EST

CAIRO (Reuters) - A Cairo court on Wednesday sentenced to death seven Egyptian Christians tried in absentia for participating in an anti-Islam video that was released on the Internet in September and had prompted violent protests in many Muslim countries.

"The seven accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet," Judge Saif al-Nasr Soliman said.

The crude, low-budget video, produced privately in California, denigrated the Prophet Mohammad and triggered anti-U.S. protests and attacks on Western embassies around the Muslim world.

(Writing by Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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paintcan wrote:
No right of Habeas Corpus for the defendants?

I guess this means they won’t be seeing the pyramids anytime soon?

The Egyptian court embarrasses itself.

Nov 28, 2012 7:24am EST  --  Report as abuse
reality-again wrote:
Clearly a political trial that has nothing to do with justice.
The aim of such actions is to scare people.
You may call it terrorism without explosives.

Nov 28, 2012 8:01am EST  --  Report as abuse
keebo wrote:
I would like to believe that the Islam faith is soiled by a few bad apples and the majority members are good people who do not believe in violent, murderous, dictatorial ideals. Absent any condemnation by this islamist majority, of this action taken by the Egyptian court, I would have to say I am wrong. Should that be true then Islam is soiled by the majority of its members and destined for the ash heap of history.

Nov 28, 2012 12:15pm EST  --  Report as abuse
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