Kareem Sentenced to Four-Year Imprisonment

Breaking news from the Free Kareem blog:

Dalia Ziada, a human rights activist and blogger, informs us that Kareem is sentenced to FOUR years in prison: three years for contempting religion, and one year for defaming the president. His appeal will be launched on Saturday by his lawyers, but we are told that it won’t do much. Hopefully it will shorten the sentence. This is bad news for all of us, and we’d just like you all to know that this fight for his freedom will still continue until he is freed.

Update: I suppose I’m running the risk of being labelled an Islamophobe, but this quote from a Reuters article on Kareem’s sentence is simply too revealing of how Islamic fascists think about free speech. This extreme anti-liberalism is truly sickening.

“I was hoping that he would get a harsher sentence because he presented to the world a bad image of Egypt. There are things that one should not talk about, like religion and politics. He should have got a 10-year sentence,” said lawyer Nizar Habib, who attended the trial as a member of the public.