MIDDLE EAST ONLINE: Cairo court upholds death sentences for Egyptian Coptic Christians in absentia over their involvement in anti-Islam movie.
CAIRO - A Cairo tribunal on Tuesday upheld death sentences passed on seven Egyptian Coptic Christians in absentia for their involvement in a movie that ridiculed the Prophet Mohammed, a judicial source said.
The accused, including the director of the movie that triggered outrage across the Muslim world when it surfaced last September, are currently living in the United States.
Terry Jones, an American pastor based in Florida who is said to have promoted the film and who had also been sentenced to death in absentia, had his sentence reduced to five years in jail by the tribunal. » | Middle East Online | Monday, February 18, 2013
