Expat Christians sentenced to Death for anti-Islam film: Egyptian Court

 A Cairo court on Wednesday sentenced to death seven Egyptian Christians tried in absentia for participating in an anti-Islam video that was released on the Internet in September and had prompted violent protests in many Muslim countries.

“The seven accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet,” Judge Saif al-Nasr Soliman said. The defendants are Morris Sadek- Egyptian American Lawyer and Activist, Fekry Abdel Zokloma- Physician, Morcos Aziz Khalil- TV presenter, Elia Basili, Nahed Mohamed Motwali (Fiby Abdel Mesih Bouls Salib), Nabil Adeeb Besada and Nader Fareed Nicola.

The crude, low-budget video, produced privately in California, denigrated the Prophet Mohammad and triggered anti-U.S. protests and attacks on Western embassies around the Muslim world.