CAIRO: A Cairo court sentenced an Egyptian Coptic Christian to three years in prison yesterday 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 on 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.
Fresh Libya request to extradite son of Gaddafi from Niger
NIAMEY: Libya yesterday reiterated its call for the extradition of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi from Niger, which has granted him asylum since September 2011 on “humanitarian” grounds. “The Libyan party has noted the threat posed by the presence in Niger of members of the former Libyan regime,” said a government statement issued after a visit to Niamey by Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. Libya “renewed its request for the extradition of those wanted people... and stressed that their trial in Libya would comply with international law.” The statement said that Libya has insisted that the former regime officials not be extradited to any third country.
Iraq attacks kill 7
FALLUJAH: Shootings and bombings killed six Iraqi security forces members and an academic yesterday, while an inmate detonated explosives in a Baghdad prison in an attempted suicide attack, officials said. Gunmen killed four police near Fallujah, west of Baghdad, a police captain and a medical source said, while gunmen in Mahmudiyah, south of the capital, shot intelligence service Captain Muntasser Abdul Rizzaq, according to an interior ministry official.
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