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COPTIC TEACHER LOSES APPEAL, SENTENCED TO PRISON IN EGYPT FOR ‘BLASPHEMY’

19th June, 2014 A Coptic woman has lost her appeal of what human rights activists call a false conviction for blaspheming Islam and has been sentenced to six months in an Egytian prison. The appellate court ruling, handed down on Sunday, shocked the Christian woman, 25-year-old Demyana Abd al-Nour, her family and human rights advocates. […]