Court upholds Kareem’s 4 year prison sentence

An Alexandrian Appeals court upheld the four year prison sentence given to blogger Kareem Amer, for the crime of “insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak.”

Moreover, the court accepted a Hessba case, filed by a fundamentalist lawyer against Kareem. Hessba, as interpreted by the regime’s theologians, gives the right to any Muslim citizen to file a lawsuit or get involved as a party to a legal case, if s/he deems something as an “assault on Islam.” (Yes, this is happening in Mubarak’s Egypt, whose regime the Western governments like to describe as “secularist.”)

UPDATE: Kareem’s defense team denounced the trial in a statement.