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February 23, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022200269.html

Egyptian Blogger Gets Four Years in Prison

[AP/Washington Post] Nadia Abou El-Magd - Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil, 22, was convicted Thursday and sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egypt's president. The former student at Egypt's Al-Azhar University had been a sharp critic of conservative Muslims and called Al-Azhar "the university of terrorism," accusing it of encouraging extremism.

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