Egypt Sentences Facebook User to Six Years in Prison for “Liking” Christian Page
Hitting “like” on Facebook has landed a Christian man in Egypt in jail for six years.
Kerolos Shawky was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison and fined the equivalent of $840 on charges of blasphemy and contempt of Islam for simply "liking" the Facebook page 'Knights of the Cross', according to International Christian Concern (ICC).
Rafla Zekry Rafla, a lawyer representing Kerolos, said it was not Shawky's intention to insult Islam. Rafla says Shawky didn't have much experience with the Internet and also suffers from poor eyesight. He never had any intention of committing contempt, or even blasphemy....