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Egypt Seeks Arrest of Seven Expatriate Copts for Anti-Islam Film
(AP-Washington Post) Egypt's general prosecutor issued arrest warrants Tuesday for seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor and referred them to trial on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that has sparked riots across the Muslim world. The eight face charges of harming national unity, insulting and publicly attacking Islam and spreading false information. They could face the death penalty, if convicted. However, they are believed to be outside of Egypt and are unlikely to stand trial. In charges that predate the film, a Coptic teacher in Egypt was sentenced Tuesday to six years for posting on his Facebook page drawings that were deemed to be insulting the Prophet Mohammed. Islamists outside the courtroom protested the sentence as too meager.