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.
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Dimyana Abdel-Nour provided by her lawyer. AP Photo. |
