Three years jail for insulting Facebook posts

Gone are the days of freedom of speech... Read this article and provide your view below. The story goes as follows: An Egyptian court sentenced Ayman Yusef Mansur to three years jail for insulting Islam postings on Facebook.

The Cairo court found that Mansur ‘insulted the dignity of the Islamic religion and attacked it with insults and ridicule’. The insults were aimed at the Noble Koran, Islamic religion, the Prophet of Islam and Muslims. Cairo-based researcher for Human Rights Watch Heba Morayef said that ‘this is very serious’. The law used to convict Mansur is a vague provision and it has long been the recommendation of human rights groups to remove that provision.

Mansur’s sentencing came as the military faced growing criticism for alleged restrictions on the press and prosecution of bloggers. Ms Morayef said that ‘this comes as yet another violation of freedom of expression’.