Saturday, May 18, 2013

Dimyana Abdel-Nour, 24-Year Old Egyptian Christian Woman Charged with Blasphemy. By Maggie Michael.

Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges. By Maggie Michael. AP. Yahoo! News, May 18, 2013. Also find it here.

Dimyana Abdel-Nour, 24, a Coptic Christian teacher in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, went from classroom to jail after lawyers and parents of three students filed a lawsuit accusing the teacher of insulting Islam. Freed on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 on a 20,000-pound (nearly 3,000 dollars) bail after nearly a week in detention, Abdel-Nour is due to stand trial later this month. Criminalizing blasphemy was enshrined in Egypt’s new Islamist-backed constitution adopted in December.


An undated photo of Dimyana Abdel-Nour provided by her lawyer. AP Photo.