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To: Jenna who wrote (3221)1/27/2001 10:48:39 PM
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O.T.Author gets prison sentence in Egypt for offending Islam



The Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt (January 27, 2001 2:56 p.m. EST nandotimes.com) - An Egyptian author was sentenced
Saturday to three years of hard labor for writings that a court ruled offensive to Islam.

A state security court handed down the prison sentence to Salah-Eddine Mohsen. The court also ordered that
all of Mohsen's books and publications be confiscated because of what it called his fanatic ideas, said the
officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A conviction for offending religion usually carries a sentence of up to five years in prison here.

Mohsen was tried last year in the same case and received a six-month prison sentence. The prosecution
appealed, saying the sentence was too lenient, and the case was retried this month, the officials said.

Mohsen is not widely known but has written several books, including "Trembling of Enlightenment" and "A Night
Talk with Heaven."

Among other things, he was indicted for writing that the Quran, Islam's holy book, was outdated. But during the
trial he told the court that he was a believer and that he did not mean to offend Islam or negate its basic tenets in
his writings.
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