SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) - A court in Cairo has sentenced to death seven Egyptian Christians who were tried in absentia for participating in an anti-Islam video that prompted violent protests in many Muslim countries.
"The seven accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamicreligion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet," said the judge, Saif al-Nasr Soliman.
The crude, low-budget video, Innocence of Muslims, produced privately in California, denigrated the prophet Muhammad, and its circulation online triggered anti-US protests and attacks on western embassies in September.
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