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.