Egyptian Blogger Gets Four Years For Insulting Islam, President Mubarak

Egyptian Blogger Gets Four Years For Insulting Islam, President Mubarak

Egypt can now be counted as one of the many countries incarcerating journalists and bloggers: Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil (who goes by the blogger name Kareem Amer), was convicted yesterday of insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced to four years in prison.

Nabil was arrested last November for remarks on his blog criticizing Al-Azhar Universtiy, calling it ''the university of terrorism''and accusing it of stuffing "its students' brains and turns them into human beasts ... teaching them that there is not place for differences in this life.'' He also referred to Mubarek's government as a ''symbol of dictatorship.''

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