ICC Note:
Alber Saber, a 27-year-old from a Coptic Christian background, was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday for posting online parts of a US-made anti-Islam, Agence France-Presse reports. Activists say Saber is innocent, but sensitivities in Egypt towards ‘offending Islam’ have escalated following the release of the film, titled “Innocence of Muslims,” that ignited violent protests throughout the Islamic world.
12/12/2012 Egypt (Agence France-Presse) – A Cairo court on Wednesday sentenced an Egyptian Coptic Christian to three years in prison for posting online parts of a US-made anti-Islam film blamed for deadly unrest in the Muslim world.
Albert Saber, 27, was convicted of “denigrating religions,” a court official said.
He was arrested in September after neighbours called authorities to say he had posted to the Internet extracts of “Innocence of Muslims,” an amateur film depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a thuggish deviant which triggered a wave of violent protests that left dozens dead in Muslim countries that month.
During his trial, Saber denied the charges against him, which at the time included blasphemy and incitement to sedition.
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