Student blogger receives four year prison sentence

by E Wayne Ross on February 24, 2007

The Daily Star (Egypt): Student blogger receives four year prison sentence

Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Soliman Amer, better known by his blog alias ‘Kareem Amer’, was sentenced to four years in prison for defaming Islam and President Hosni Mubarak on his Internet blog by a court in Alexandria Thursday.

According to Amer’s lawyer Ahmed Saif, the former Al-Azhar University student received a sentence of three years in prison for posing criticism to Islam and one year for defaming President Mubarak in his Internet writings.