//Skip to content
Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors

#Karam Saber

An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced a Coptic Christian school teacher to six months in prison after being charged with insulting Islam, overturning earlier charges that only enforced a fine. The 23-year-old social studies teacher, Demiana Emad, was arrested in May, 2013, and accused of insulting Islam after the head of the parent’s association of Sheikh Sultan Primary School in Upper Egypt filed a complaint accusing her of blasphemy. Two months after her arrest, Emad was charged with EGP 100,000…